The Thing Everyone Missed About The Mike Tyson Fight With Jake Paul

Posted • November 18, 2024: For months, Netflix has hyped up a fight between internet villain Jake Paul and boxing legend and ear connoisseur Mike Tyson. People speculated back and forth about who would win, with most people saying Tyson would knock Paul out, and probably in the first few rounds. The entire thing had been a spectacle, even well before the fight began. Paul did what Paul does, talks so much trash that he crosses lines in order to get into his opponent's head. He was clearly the villain in this fight, and Paul relishes in being a villain. He, like many showmen, knows that villainy sells. Infamy is sometimes more profitable than fame. Moreover, people love to hate Paul and he loves to be hated. Paul is known for challenging old men past their prime, and as Dana White points out, while Paul has become a better boxer than when he began, his habit isn't to challenge, or ask for rematches, against anyone who is capable and around his age.

Dana White on Jake Paul, “He is fighting a guy who is almost 60 years old. That says it all. There is nothing else that needs to be said. Him and Mike Tyson are gonna make a sh*t load of money…Jake Paul can fight…Jake Paul just won’t fight anybody.” But you have to understand that Paul isn't trying to become the best boxer in the world. His goal is to be one of the best showmen so he can make a ton of money, and to do that, he's utilizing one of the other lessons he learned over the years. Nostalgia sells big. This brings us to Tyson, a man who you knew about even if you didn't watch boxing. The man is so famous that you know his face, his name, and even his quirky manner of speech, even if you hate the world of boxing. At some point in time in their life, the vast majority of American men above the age of 20 living today have attempted to do a Mike Tyson impression. (…)

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