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It was rigged? (lemmy.world)

submitted 23 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Everything about it was shit. Hopefully Netflix will never get a sporting event again. Biased opinions all the way through the fights. Commentators talking about the other fights while fights were happening. During Barrios vs Ramos WBC belt fight, they were talking about the upcoming fights. Their audio went to Holyfields earpiece, later on a mic went. Their servers crashed. Rosie Perez is not 'the first lady of boxing' What other commentary there was, was horseshit. Plugging all their shows by zooming in on their 'celebrity' crowd. I'm paying premium to watch the boxing. I don't give a fuck about Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz and their new shit film. Or the two Cobra Kai clowns. Every five minutes. The trailers for the shows just interrupted everything. I couldn't watch the best fight of the night live because their servers went down.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Netflix definitely will get more sporting events. Right now it's looking like they'll get NFL games

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Hey man, never judge a book by its recording

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I don't understand why people watch that douchebag

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

I honestly didn't watch it, but if I did it would've been to see him get hurt

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Unpopular opinion i guess but here we go. The event was scripted but not the fight. Mike's knee was hurt, he came into the fight bandaged and on some videos of him prefight you can see how slow and wobbly he is on his feet. He came in hot but after round two it seems like he hurt his knee. Round 3-8 Mike was basically standing his ground in peekaboo stance and had no real ability to enter the longer reach of Jake who didn't force an early decision and played it out respectfully while still having to be careful about Mike's hands. I personally enjoyed the event, we all have this question in some form at some point: "What if this old legend came back into the sport, would he/her be able to compete?". I didn't come to watch a carnage, i was curious, how far the legend could push himself at 58 and i got my answer, i was entertained.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago

Thanks for sharing. This gave me a new perspective on the match.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

So… uh… what am I looking at here? What’s this pic supposed to show? I just see two guys in a boxing ring.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It’s clickbait. I bet the article has 5 screenshots of twitter comments, and paraphrases them in 10 paragraphs, while also sharing a lot irrelevant info and linking other articles abut the match.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 hours ago

the rules of boxing:

who is Jake Paul?

who is Mike Tyson?

why is this fight relevant?

definition and etymology of the word 'faked'

[–] [email protected] 84 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

The same people who took this seriously are the same people who mock wrestling fans. And wrestling fans could see through this.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

What about Mexican wrestling fans? Since they are wearing masks it might be a bit harder for them to see through this.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 17 hours ago

You buffoon. Those masks have X-ray. They saw better.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 19 hours ago

Wrestling fans know good kayfabe when they see it.

[–] [email protected] 154 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

I don't see how Paul wins here at all. Either he beats up a 60 year old man or gets beat by a 60 year old man. There's no way to look good in this.

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[–] [email protected] 138 points 20 hours ago (7 children)

He won 40 mil and Mike won 20 mil.

It was dumb, we paid attention, Tyson cashed in. Nobody was hurt. They both won.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

Money doesn't make him any less a loser.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Yeah, but I would have really appreciated it if Paul was hit KO. Would have made everything just a bit nicer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Well I think it’s pretty fair to say a lot of people were tuning in to see him get his ass beat. He’s made a career out of being a piece of shit that people want to see get knocked out. So he wins by us all hating him because if we’re hating him we’re paying attention to him.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago

Yes, same reason I would've liked GOT to have a proper final season. It's for the story telling.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, it would have.

I think if tyson won, they'd just get him to keep fighting weird fights.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

"fight this baboon"

"fight this kangaroo"

"fight this pack of hot dogs"

"fight for your right, to paaaaaaaaartayyyyy"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 minutes ago

He tried to fight a gorilla at a zoo one time. They didn’t let him.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I'd definitely watch Tyson take on all 3 of the Beastie Boys. Especially if the Boys dressed up in their Sabotage costumes.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I would pay to see it, but I have a feeling one of them won't be much of a challenge.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

Is this really how I find out one of them died?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Your comment is how I found out. Damn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Sorry to report, it's been a while that MCA hasn't been alive.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago

No, one of them went to live on a farm upstate

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 22 hours ago

Hit the old man enough to win by decision but not actually hurt him. That's the only real winning path - and exactly what happened.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

Meh it's the 60 year old man's decision to fight. Your argument is in the same vein as "you can't fight against a woman". If they want it, so be it.

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (5 children)

If anyone actually watched the whole thing, Tyson came out hot and Paul had a moment of fear. Then old man got hit a few times and looked like he was about to wobble to the ground.

I thought it was gonna be fake and scripted. And most of it was. But, the actual fight? Mike came out hot and it was pretty clear Paul could have taken him out a number of times but didn’t. He didn’t want to hurt him.

Look, I don’t like Jake Paul or Mike Tyson. But, it was a media event. It wasn’t “rigged”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Thanks for an actually smart summary. I only watched the first few rounds, then skipped to the end, but I have the same impression.

Paul was using his head, not wanting kill a 58 yrs old sport legend accidentally. Also, he stayed in distance, to avoid accidentally walking into a stronger punch from Tyson’s shorter arms. The match we have seen is the logical result of these factors, no scripting needed.

Paul and Tyson made 40 and 20 million from this, 120 million ppl watched live on Netflix, so now the phones will not stop ringing at Paul’s promotion agency to make fights like these happen in the future, as I bet a lot of boxers would love to make money like Tyson did.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I think Tyson had the power in his arms to do some damage but he just did not have the speed to get in at all after 2 rounds. And he'd leave himself open if he tried.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago

After the 3rd he couldn't stance, he was flat on his feet.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 22 hours ago

But, it was a media event. It wasn’t “rigged”

You could gamble on it, which means there was money to be made courting suckers.

I'm sure the lion's share of "rigged" proclamations were coming from folks who got baited into bad bets.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Fake News, you couldn’t watch the fight on Netflix it was stills between buffers.

But for real who expect an out of form 60yo to do anything but loose.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 22 hours ago

Things do get looser as you get older

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Glad I didn't give Netflix any money.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

When I heard it had Jake Paul I lost all interest in the fight

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