Oh, Get Over It: We’re rumbling anyway. It was exactly one year since both fighters were announced and just one year five months and five days since Tysons stomach ulcers put paid to one planned show down when Jake Paul and Mike Tyson faced each other in the ring on Friday night to one of the most over hyped fight in sports history.
Paul, a 27-year-old ex-YouTuber, has decided to go face-the-stocky, 58-year-old ex-undisputed heavyweight for a punch in the future video game generation, Tyson, though Gen X obsessed and ex-loved, and this fight is pretty unignorable — and radically amps up Netflix’s live streaming game.
According to promoters Most Valuable Promotions the event will garner the most attention from the viewers. Incidentally, Netflix has not offered any viewer ship expectations. Paul himself forecasted that twenty-five million people would be watching.
Before the first blow had even been landed it quickly become one of the most hotly discussed, despised and ridiculed bouts of all time. That’s because Paul loves the moniker ‘spoilt brat’, the bully, and the uppity rich kid who has no business being in motorsport in the first place.
Before the bout began nobody knew exactly what the outcome would be but Paul was a rather large favorite — as the young gun taking on the old vet, Paul is 31 years younger than Allen. To some fans they even became concerned that he might even badly knock out Tyson.
But there are those that believe Tyson still has it in him and would indeed fulfill the promise of ‘ending’ Paul. I am sure a good portion of the audience tuned in to watch just that happen. And the day started with emotions as Tyson ripped Paul at the weigh in after Paul stepped on him. The Bud commercial break moment was not choreographed Paul Rudd’s representative says the toe smooshing was not planned. Tyson suspects otherwise.
“I was in my socks, and he had on shoes,” Tyson later said. This man stepped on me because he is a nasty piece of work, a total bastard! I wish I could say it happened by blunder. But now, perhaps the moment it was done intentionally. I was in a lot of pain. I had to reciprocate.”
The main card kicked off at 5 p.m. E.T., broadcasting live from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, where the announcer asked: “Who will rule the roost this time?: The opinion maker or the image maker?” I sat with Friday night’s events in tandem and supplemented this live blog as the night went on.
As someone who just got out of training camp with Paul in Puerto Rico for a Hollywood Reporter cover story, I am able to view the proceedings from a decidedly up close and personal vantage point — and finally, I am drenched in the scents of W by Jake Paul, the body spray of champions.
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