You can see tyson pull his shot. Just look at the difference between a full hit and paul’s match. It’s easy to see that this wasn’t age. It probably took more energy to pull the shot. Last comment.
It’s entirely possible that the fight was fixed, but Paul’s scheduled bouts do follow very predictable patterns, his opponents are always not boxers or haven’t been fighting professionally for years.
I watched the Tyson/Paul match (on a pirate stream, because fucking giving money to the broadcasting networks for perpetuating this mockery of the sport) and my impression was that Tyson just got gassed in the second round and couldn’t recover. He was in his late fifties, had not been actively training for serious fights, and had health problems leading up to the match itself. Meanwhile, Paul is in the prime of his youth and is wealthy enough to afford the best personal trainers and boxing coaches. He might not have much talent, but that barrier can be overcome with extreme amounts of effort and training.
It’s hard to see your heroes fall to villains worthy of such scorn, I’ll admit that much.
Many of these fixed fight accusations come from people with little to no experience boxing, but who will claim with so much unearned confidence how “obvious” it is.
It is possible that Tyson threw the match. I’ll give that oxygen to people with the experience to know what they’re talking about.
More importantly, these accusations fall into an even bigger trap: giving Jake Paul attention.
Jake Paul built up a string of wins against fighters who weren’t boxers, boxers with inflated win/loss records, and boxers who have been retired for years.
Every claim that a fighter is “obviously” throwing against him fed the metrics. It creates hate watchers who want to see him get beat in the next fight. It tells the networks, this makes money.
If we had collectively recognized the trap, stopped shouting “rigged!” and signaling how much we wanted a next match, a “real” match, Jake Paul wouldn’t have been able to ride the hate-hype train to a $100M+ payout for a broken jaw.
You can see tyson pull his shot. Just look at the difference between a full hit and paul’s match. It’s easy to see that this wasn’t age. It probably took more energy to pull the shot. Last comment.
It’s entirely possible that the fight was fixed, but Paul’s scheduled bouts do follow very predictable patterns, his opponents are always not boxers or haven’t been fighting professionally for years.
I watched the Tyson/Paul match (on a pirate stream, because fucking giving money to the broadcasting networks for perpetuating this mockery of the sport) and my impression was that Tyson just got gassed in the second round and couldn’t recover. He was in his late fifties, had not been actively training for serious fights, and had health problems leading up to the match itself. Meanwhile, Paul is in the prime of his youth and is wealthy enough to afford the best personal trainers and boxing coaches. He might not have much talent, but that barrier can be overcome with extreme amounts of effort and training.
It’s hard to see your heroes fall to villains worthy of such scorn, I’ll admit that much.
Great, this will be my last comment, too.
Many of these fixed fight accusations come from people with little to no experience boxing, but who will claim with so much unearned confidence how “obvious” it is.
It is possible that Tyson threw the match. I’ll give that oxygen to people with the experience to know what they’re talking about.
More importantly, these accusations fall into an even bigger trap: giving Jake Paul attention.
Jake Paul built up a string of wins against fighters who weren’t boxers, boxers with inflated win/loss records, and boxers who have been retired for years.
Every claim that a fighter is “obviously” throwing against him fed the metrics. It creates hate watchers who want to see him get beat in the next fight. It tells the networks, this makes money.
If we had collectively recognized the trap, stopped shouting “rigged!” and signaling how much we wanted a next match, a “real” match, Jake Paul wouldn’t have been able to ride the hate-hype train to a $100M+ payout for a broken jaw.
I dunno’ about everyone else, but calling him out on his BS has never once even remotely tempted me to watch his next match.
Me, neither. But calling him out is still “engagement” in the platform’s eyes.
They don’t care whether it was positive or negative, as long as they can sell it to advertisers, shareholders, and data brokers.