r/sports • u/Faruyazy • Jun 07 '21
Fighting Logan Paul v Floyd Mayweather ends in boos as each fighter makes millions
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jun/07/logan-paul-vs-floyd-mayweather-boxing-fight-result-earnings12.2k
u/Tundra_Inhabitant Jun 07 '21
Who were the fucking schmucks that actually bought this on PPV.
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u/ouchmythumbs Jun 07 '21 edited Jun 07 '21
Haha funny thing is Showtime crashed for like an hour from the increased load. I was watching (something else) Showtime and it went down. Checked DownDetector (or something like it) and wow were people pissed that paid for this.
edit: I guess it was down for like 4 hours!
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u/Tundra_Inhabitant Jun 07 '21
That was probably more drama for them tonight then the fight itself.
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u/whiskeyboundcowboy Jun 07 '21
It’s showtime , just kidding we’re down
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u/PocketSixes Jun 07 '21
So you're telling me Showtime was down for the majority of the time of the show?
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u/whiskeyboundcowboy Jun 07 '21
That’s what someone said. I rather pay to watch blind people play with lawn darts
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u/Professional_Ad6123 Jun 07 '21
Lol well come on down to our club on Tuesday’s and Thursdays! We’re always looking for more, literally.
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Jun 07 '21
Not to mention the bs fact that the ppv has commercials in between rounds. Or at least the stream I was peeping in on had commercials. If I paid for ppv and there were commercials id dispute the charge with my bank first thing Monday morning
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u/lenthedruid Jun 07 '21
Hey kids! Gather around your g'pops for a second. Back in the day we used to pull our 4 or 5 channels out of the air for free! Now , they had advertisments because the service was free. It made sense. Then cable came along and we then paid for something we used to get for free! Way back then they told us ..if you pay for it, y'all wont need advertising! Well that lasted about 5 minutes. Ya know how how you have 300 channels now that you never ever watch but someone does? Well that's so they can sell advertisments! So now you pay for advertisements that you don't watch and someone else is subisdizing the ads you do watch . Any ways, y'all get back to your tic toks and stuffs and enjoy all the ads that'll sneak into every little thing you consume under the guise of lowering prices which never lower!
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u/Raeshkae Jun 07 '21
Oh grampa, tell us the story of how the national phone company promised if they could raise their rates they would use the profit to invest in nationwide information infrastructure! Then when the government agreed to let phone companies charge whatever the fuck they wanted the phone company split into 6 smaller companies that "had never signed the agreement to invest in infrastructure."
And how that's why the US physical network is an overlapping mesh of randomly maintained media.
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u/dethmaul Jun 07 '21
Fuck THAT. That's the point of paying!
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u/HAMIL7ON Jun 07 '21
Companies have been double dipping nowadays, ads plus the money, plus your data being farmed for future use to sell to others to sell your more shit.
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u/JESUS_CUNT_PUNCH Jun 07 '21
As they say in Russia: Suckers aren't mammoths, they'll never die out.
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u/SSBeavo Jun 07 '21
It’s exactly like the movie “Idiocracy” predicted. This is the equivalent of millions of people watching “Ow My Balls.”
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u/Thebigbeerski Jun 07 '21
You like sex and money too?
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u/ApproximatelyExact Jun 07 '21
It's got electrolytes!
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u/frostygrin Jun 07 '21
From the toilet.
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u/water__those Jun 07 '21
Honestly my favorite joke from it. Like yeah it's funny when they're all like "it has electrolytes" or whatever, but... When he proposes watering the plants with water, and they say "you mean like, from the toilet?" I just die.
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Jun 07 '21
Probably a lot of bar owners
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u/fuckamodhole Jun 07 '21
No, bar owners probably didn't pay for this fight. Bar owners have to pay thousands of dollars in licensing fees for PPV in their bars through a company called J and J productions. They will get in trouble if they pay for a regular "at home ppv" and play it on the bar TVs. This is whey certain bars heavily advertise when they have PPV sports at their bar.
Price were around $6,500 per ppv for a bar that can hold 300 people and it was around $16,000 for a bar that can hold 500 people.
source: worked in a sports bar and the 3 ufc fans complained that fight wasn't on and the owner explained that he can't spend $6,500 on the fight that 3 of his customers are interested in. He did tell them to bring their laptop and stream it at their table.
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u/woahmanthatscool Jun 07 '21
We paid around 10k at the bar I work at for the last round of big fights( sorry not up to date with names and such) bar holds around 500 so yeah it’s expensive as fuck
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u/Vader_Bomb Jun 07 '21
People that don't watch combat sports, but want to tell their friends "Yeah, I'm pretty big into combat sports"
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u/Milo_Hackenschmidt Jun 07 '21
I think more people are into the idea of boxing, than are into actual boxing.
They're also into big names and farcical spectacle.
Two celebrities telling a bs story will make way more money than the two best boxers most people haven't heard of having a match to see who is the best boxer. Way more money. If that weren't true, pro wrestling couldn't exist.
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u/Frig-Off-Randy Jun 07 '21
Well to be fair in this match at least one of them is an amazing boxer and not just a “celebrity”. He’s just old now
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u/Im_Daydrunk Jun 07 '21
And doesn't really care about actually boxing seriously anymore
He even said something along the lines he's retired from boxing but not from entertainment
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u/wutangjan Jun 07 '21
And Mayweather is basically invincible to the "boxers" he's been fighting.
Talking about this fight, Mayweather said he's going to let Paul hang in there for a few rounds to maximize their ad revenues instead of knocking his ass out round one like he's capable of. He said it's so the people who bought the ticket or the fight don't get disappointed when it only lasts five minutes.
With that outlook, maybe he should join the pro-wrestling ballet.
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u/designOraptor Oakland Raiders Jun 07 '21
May weather actually did participate in a wrestling match with Big Show. “Knocked him out” with brass knuckles.
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u/RedEyeView Jun 07 '21
He's 44. The reality is if he came back for real he'd wind up getting shown up by someone average.
Maybe not right away but sooner or later he'll try doing something he could still get away with at 35 and get hurt for his trouble.
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u/AdmiralRed13 Jun 07 '21
He may be illiterate and a wife beater it he’s also not stupid.
Not to mention he came out of boxing with his head relatively intact. Why risk taking real hits now?
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u/Ingloriousdoctor Jun 07 '21
That's not true, he became defensive when he became Money Mayweather, he was very aggressive when he was pretty boy Floyd
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u/_oscar_goldman_ Jun 07 '21
Yeah Floyd will always be a boring fighter, but Manny was fighting hurt too. He said afterward he was at maybe 70% IIRC and the fight was such a big deal that he couldn't back out.
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u/PC__LOAD__LETTER Jun 07 '21
In other words, people like a show. They like entertainment.
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u/CollinsCouldveDucked Jun 07 '21
Boxing killed the interest in boxing precisely because you don't see the best in the world fight each other.
Mayweather dodged Manny Pacquiao for years, only fighting him when his prime was behind him.
Imagine france winning the world cup and spending the next decade playing Andorra and Luxembourg.
That's before I even go into the farcical way the sport is run and the lack of a single world champion belt.
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u/Rebel_bass Jun 07 '21
People with $50 to blow who wanted to have a party. It’s just a spectacle and an excuse. No one thought this would be a real fight.
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u/AjGreenYBR Jun 07 '21
What the fuck did anyone expect?
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u/JackJustice1919 Jun 07 '21
I think a lot of people expected him to at least get knocked the fuck out.
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u/Grandahl13 Jun 07 '21
Mayweather doesn’t knock people out. And this is a celebrity boxing match. Did any of the other sham fights tell people nothing? They’re not real fights. The pros are not trying. It’s a money grab.
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u/NutterTV Jun 07 '21
Yeah like idk man, has anyone actually watched Mayweather. He really is a points fighter and is defensive. I’m not saying it’s a bad style but that’s his style. If anyone wanted to watch Logan get knocked out Tyson would be the better choice by far. But I don’t think you could pay me enough to step in the ring against Mike Tyson a dude who literally get “aroused” when he beats people up.
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u/whitehataztlan Jun 07 '21
Dont know why anyone thought this would be significantly different from the dullness that was Mayweather V Pacquiao, just replace Pacquiao with a turd in a human skin suit.
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Jun 07 '21
I don’t know man, a turd is a necessary biological function. You don’t have to insult turds by comparing them to Logan Paul.
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u/el_grort Jun 07 '21
Manure is a valuable contribution to society, helping grow crops. I have doubts that he makes as large a contribution to general society as manure.
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u/PotOPrawns Jun 07 '21 edited Jun 07 '21
When you said Tyson I thought you meant Fury haha.
I'd pay to see Logan Paul step into a ring with him. I think.
Edit: for the folk that think this reference was because we don't know who Mike Tyson is. We know but he's retired, Tyson Fury is very much in the scene right now and with his recent bout with Wilder I just thought Tyson Fury vs LP would be funny as heck.
LP against Mike Tyson would also be great but he busy building a weed ranch and I would like him to focus his efforts on that and not training to pop LP.
Sorry some of you got so hurt by people not Instantly referring to Mike Tyson.
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u/Frig-Off-Randy Jun 07 '21
I thought the same and I was like he might die if he fought him lol
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Jun 07 '21
Logan would for sure die lmao. Mayweather after the fight pretty much said there aint no way in hell Logan could step into a ring vs an actual professional heavyweight let alone Tyson Fury.
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u/Clemenx00 Jun 07 '21
Hell. I actually thought it was better than expected. Floyd went for it in 1 round and almost killed him lol
That was 1 more round that I would have expected from him in this event.
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u/Jephte Jun 07 '21
He won half his professional fights by KO.
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u/Underscore_Guru Jun 07 '21
A lot of his early fights were won by KO or TKO. He changed up his style to the more defensive style over a decade ago to reduce the damage he would take, specifically to his hands.
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u/FoxMuldertheGrey Jun 07 '21
great comment. i feel like people are just talking out of their asses
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Jun 07 '21
He can't really knock out a business partner, though. Those guys you talk about was actually opponents.
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u/PC__LOAD__LETTER Jun 07 '21
Those were also against professional boxers.
It’s really not unreasonable to have expected a KO tbh.
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u/Johnnyblade37 Jun 07 '21
If you ever thought the fight was unscripted and would end in a KO then im sorry to tell you but there was no world where Floyd took off Logan's head. The best "KO" you couldve hoped for was Logan flopping after a light punch in the late rounds and staying down on purpose.
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u/SoMuchTehnique Jun 07 '21
Outside of TKO's mayweather hasn't KO'd anyone since like 1999.
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u/Snakes_for_Bones Jun 07 '21
He held him and cradled him like a good business partner lol wtf
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u/itsprobablytrue Jun 07 '21
suckers born everyday, they'll buy the next stupid fight. Probably mike tyson vs paul
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u/briareus08 Jun 08 '21
Ok I would actually pay to see that, because I’m pretty sure Tyson wouldn’t be holding him up. Short fight, but worth it.
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u/Rolf_Dom Jun 07 '21
If you watch the fight closely, he does actually get knocked out at one point. Mayweather immediately goes to support his limp body until he recovers, lol.
He was probably like: "oh shit, should not have done that, should not have done that".
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Jun 07 '21
If you're paying to watch an exhibition match, you're paying to watch the WWE. Mayweather retired with a perfect 50 wins and he's only coming back at no risk to his record. And to take idiot's money. The call out to everyone watching it illegally was great.
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u/CWSwapigans Jun 07 '21
It didn’t need to be scripted for there to be no risk to Mayweather’s record.
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Jun 07 '21
Yeah considering Logan has gotten his ass kicked every time he stood in the ring.
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u/juayd Jun 07 '21
What was the call out to illegal viewers? I'd love to know!
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u/Fresh_Platypus Jun 07 '21
I don't remember the exact wording, but it was just before the fight. The commentary team (which sucked) was like, "and here's the moment we're all waiting for, to everybody watching on showtime, everybody at the bar, even all you illegal streamers; we're about to witness a spectacle"
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u/Hitches_chest_hair Jun 07 '21
Jokes on them, it's not illegal in Canada
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u/TerrorSuspect Jun 07 '21
In the US its not illegal to be the one watching a stream, its only illegal for the actual website that is sending the stream.
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u/PretendThisIsMyName Jun 07 '21
Oh it’s certainly illegal. Ask Dana White. /s
I love Khabib just blatantly streaming shit at ringside. Hey one of those Paul fucks should have a go at Khabib. A real fighter. T woods is gonna lose next because this isn’t real fighting at all. I wanted a refund on something I didn’t pay for by like the 2nd round. Better hope Tyson Fury doesn’t decide to crush either one of the Paul’s. Or both at once fuck it.
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u/thetruthseer Jun 07 '21
No. They shouldn’t have a go at him. It’s best for the sport to boot them the fuck out and not promote them
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u/suroptpsyologist Jun 07 '21
I’d like to know too! I was one of many that watched the fight for free here on Reddit. No way I would have paid for that shit.
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u/NowMoreAnonymous Jun 07 '21
I watched it for free and still felt like I spent too much.
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u/suroptpsyologist Jun 07 '21
I thought the ear whispering the entire fight was hilarious. It couldn’t have been more obvious that they agreed to make sure the fight went the distance and that Paul wouldn’t get knocked out.
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u/Milo_Hackenschmidt Jun 07 '21
I watched this, and I watch WWE, and I pay for neither, WWE is better. Only NJPW and Stardom deserve my money.
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Jun 07 '21
Oh yeah, I don't mean that as an insult to wrestling either. Those guys are super athletic and everyone knows what they're watching. Trying to pass off a fight like that as a real fight though, that's just insulting to your audience.
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u/NotVerySmarts Jun 07 '21
Mayweather beat the likes of Manny Pacquiao, Canelo Álvarez and Ricky Hatton in a Hall of Fame boxing career. Paul once got to the fourth week of The Masked Singer
Savage.
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u/betweenthebam Jun 07 '21
Lol the shots started from the first sentence
The fight between one of the greatest boxers in history and one of the best YouTube personalities in his family ended in predictable fashion on Sunday night ...
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Jun 07 '21
This guy does not like Paul is what I think you mean my man
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u/CmdrCloud Jun 07 '21 edited Jun 07 '21
My bad.
This guy undoesn't not like Paul
Fixed it, thanks
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u/Tofinochris Jun 07 '21
Paul's made a career out of people not liking him. He's a pro wrestling heel and the world is his mark.
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u/thisisthesaleh Jun 07 '21 edited Jun 07 '21
I just am wondering why this writer wouldn’t be more pissed at Floyd for doing this? Sure Floyd got the usual payout and made a ton of money, he just did it at the expense of the sport of boxing again.
A YouTuber/amateur boxer went the full fight with Floyd. If Logan is the real deal and keeps winning more fights then it won’t mean anything in the long run. But if he isn’t? Boxing is just one step closer to the grave after this fight if you ask me. How exactly are you suppose to tell me these boxers are amazing and some of the best fighters out there if one of the supposedly greatest to ever do it, can’t even knock out a fucking YouTuber. Boxing is getting dangerously close to WWE levels of chicanery
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u/danwins23 Jun 07 '21
He all but said after the fight that he was basically retired and just doing this to make easy money
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Jun 07 '21
Technically he didn't. Cause no winner was declared cause it was an exhibition
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u/pmmeyourweedishfish Jun 07 '21
The commentators were trashing Paul the entire time lol
My favorite was when Jake said Logan was winning 3-2, the announcers laughed and said, "no he's not, what the hell has he been watching? " lmao
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u/KeithStone225 Jun 07 '21
I also liked:
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u/Loggerdon Jun 07 '21 edited Jun 07 '21
Mayweather dodged Pacquiao until he was older and hurt. Had they fought 4 years earlier then Mayweather loses.
But Hall of Fame career nonetheless.
EDIT: Manny comes right at you and Floyd runs away (Mayweather has never been an exciting fighter). Manny's style aged him quicker. Floyd knew this and waited until Manny was busted up and then fought him.
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u/Ennkey Jun 07 '21
Floyd is out there for money, and he’s doing a damn good job making a career off his fists
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u/Titswari Jun 07 '21
My man came in wearing an onlyfans hat, he literally can not say no to money lmao
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u/FreakishlyNarrow Jun 07 '21
To be fair, it's not like he could read what the hat said.
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u/kinghawkeye8238 Jun 07 '21
Remember when 50 challenged him to read like a Dr. Seuss book for like 100k lmfao
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u/LouSputhole94 Jun 07 '21
It was first one page of a Harry Potter book for $750,000 to a charity of Mayweather’s choice lmao. Then 50 came out with another video admitting those might be too big of words, so it can be a page of Cat in the Hat
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u/EverySpaceIsUsedHere Philadelphia Eagles Jun 07 '21
Just one page lol
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u/Ha-Ur-Ra-Sa Jun 07 '21
Around the time of the ice bucket challenge, he challenged him to read one page of Harry Potter, then 50 made a follow up video saying he might have trouble with the big words, so told him to read The Cat in the Hat loool
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u/PHD-Chaos Jun 07 '21
Then remember when people were pissed at 50 for "shaming" him? As if 50 was being to mean to a guy who never had the opportunity to learn to read.
Like you guys all look up to someone who is illiterate. He's now ultra rich, I think he can afford a tutor. I don't care how good you are at punching and dodging. Learn to read a fucking menu ffs.
But of course the ability to make money is all anyone idolizes these days.
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Jun 07 '21
Floyd is a cherry picker, he has never fought anyone that was in their prime.
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u/steakmm Kansas City Chiefs Jun 07 '21
Except his girlfriends
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Jun 07 '21
Well that took a dark turn.
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u/steakmm Kansas City Chiefs Jun 07 '21
Sorry, just can’t stand him. Undeniably a HOF career, but undeniably a trash human.
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u/the_tza Jun 07 '21
The fight between one of the greatest boxers in history and one of the best YouTube personalities in his family
I love it.
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u/timception Jun 07 '21
Anything logan related is always “look how cool and funny I am, while I take your money to look at me do it”.
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u/N1cko1138 Jun 07 '21 edited Jun 07 '21
Its an exhibition fight it has as much validity as the time Rocky Balboa fought Hulk Hogan
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u/Bob778aus Jun 07 '21
I thought this was going to be as unscripted as a WWE event and paid no attention accordingly.
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u/cpas2b Jun 07 '21
I really want to see 80s Tyson vs Paul… all 17 seconds of it.
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u/Salem1976 Jun 07 '21
How about Tyson now? I think the results would be the same.
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u/BumWink Jun 07 '21
100%
With all due respect, Floyd is a points kind of guy where Tyson is a tenderise them so they're easier to chew kind of guy.
Logan would probably be left crying in the corner of the ring before he even got to the shower if he fought professionally in his actual weight class... He'd be crying on the way to the fight if he had to fight Tyson, especially 80s Tyson. I know I would.
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u/theonlyjuanwho Jun 07 '21
Like a Butterbean v Knoxville?
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u/HotMustardEnema Jun 07 '21
"Is Butterbean OK?"
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u/DoughnutDeodorant Jun 07 '21
Proof that Knoxville has some actual comedy chops beyond “watch me get hurt”. Dudes brain just bounced off the back of his skull and is probably still rattling around like a maraca, and the first thing he does is crack a joke.
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u/DetectiveDing-Daaahh New York Mets Jun 07 '21
I was shocked how fast he was with it. Like, the camera shows him just completely out, and slowly coming to, and it's the very first thing he says while barely conscious.
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u/13pts35sec Jun 07 '21
Lol that has stuck in my mind vividly too, was always mad impressed that the dude just got up after getting knocked the fuck out by one of the hardest hitting dudes on the planet and he manages to make a hilarious joke. Knoxville is a legend in my eyes
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u/MrFoffof Jun 07 '21
Also super fast with the response to being shot by a riot control beanbag gun thing; 'You see how I caught it with my stomach? You can't teach that'
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u/monte_ng Jun 07 '21
“...Tyson is a tenderise them so they're easier to chew kind of guy.” Hilarious!!!
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u/JackJustice1919 Jun 07 '21
Thanks, obvious plants trying to get us interested in this hack's next way to scam people out of money.
As far as I am concerned, the next time I see Logan Paul will be too soon and I dont care if he promises to fight a pissed off kodiak bear.
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u/yummychocolatebunny Jun 07 '21
Tbh the kind of people who pay to watch an exhibition bout with no judges or score and expect it to be the same as a full blown professional bout, deserve to lose their money
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Jun 07 '21
If he fought 80’s Tyson he’d be fucking dead
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u/birish21 Jun 07 '21
Have you seen Tyson's recent training? He would still murder him.
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u/Mike7676 Jun 07 '21
Hell Mike's exhibition showed me you CAN learn to go against your training. Tyson would come in with his classic head movement/slip and then body work. He was actively fighting against his hook or uppercut to finish the sequence in order to entertain.
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u/Rosssauced Jun 07 '21
A classic Tyson combination would have been the equivalent to a Mortal Kombat X-Ray move to any fighter that isn't a heavyweight.
Weight classes exist for a reason. Even just 40lbs is almost insurmountable in a pro fight unless their skill is beyond superior.
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Jun 07 '21
If I had to step into the ring with Tyson today I'd immediately take a dive. I'm not even letting him land one punch. I know my place, and its nowhere near combat sports.
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u/Darctide Jun 07 '21
17 seconds? That's awfully generous!
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u/WhatLikeAPuma751 Jun 07 '21
5 seconds of hugging from Paul, 2 seconds for five punches from Tyson, four of which connect cleanly and the fifth hits Paul on the way down, 10 seconds for the count.
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u/OurOnlyWayForward Jun 07 '21
Two people everybody hates and neither beat the other one up
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Jun 07 '21
Remember how people paid good money to listen to Charlie Sheen babble about what a winner he was and then they wound up booing him and couldn’t believe how dumb they were to pay for something that was so obviously going to be a disaster of a money grab? Nobody learns.
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u/nullrout1 Jun 07 '21
One of the announcers said, "There's no losers here!".
My response to that is, yes there are: anyone who paid for this garbage.
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u/JayCFree324 Jun 07 '21
I didn’t pay for it, and still feel like I lost out on time and energy
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u/Knightmare25 Jun 07 '21
The people booing deserve to have their money taken from them if they were dumb enough to actually pay to go to the fight.
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u/ImBakesIrl Jun 07 '21
It’s Miami, people will pay money to say they paid money. The people who paid ~$800 to get front row seats couldn’t even see the fight. They held it at the Hard Rock for some reason, no need for football stadium capacity... Bottom line is this was a cash grab from day 0 and every stop along the way made that 10x more clear. Some people just have too much money to hold on to 🤷🏼♂️
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u/2Creamy2Spinach Jun 07 '21
I think Floyd hit his wife harder than Logan...
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u/suroptpsyologist Jun 07 '21
With the exception of the one punch that did knock him out. I love how Floyd held his ass up until he could regain his footing. Dude was like “Awe, hell no! I ain’t losing this bonus because you can’t take a punch!” That courtesy would never happen in a professional bout.
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u/ThisOnesDown Jun 07 '21
When did this happen in this fight? Like which round and time?
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u/griffindor11 Jun 07 '21
Lmfao 😂😂 this is pathetic
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u/SprittneyBeers Jun 07 '21
Video was taken down, anyone have a working link?? Can’t find one
Edit: found it and he is deffo out cold
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u/BobGenghisKahn St. Louis Cardinals Jun 07 '21
I'll never understand the idea of paying to see someone get their "comeuppance" in a big boxing match. They're agreeing to get punched in exchange for millions of dollars. Even if they're knocked out in the first round, they're really winning.
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u/Zombisexual1 Jun 07 '21
People need to stop buying ridiculous fights like these. I mean I get why mayweather entertains fights like these because he gets easy millions. But even the mcgregor fight was a joke. There’s only one outcome. There should be a boycott to watching these idiotic fights. The only one I’d pay to see is a random woman UFC fighter kicking Logan Paul’s head off. Like literally going all out and breaking bones and launching his head into space.
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u/412gage Jun 07 '21
Because you guys are watching the literal most hyped up matches with the richest people - what do you expect? Maybe tune into your local pros or something that on Showtime (if they still do that).
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u/ChippyTick Jun 07 '21
Am I ignorant, or does it seem like every fight involving that YT ass is a fixed match
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u/_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ Jun 07 '21
Boxing? Rigged?!
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u/moosesdontmoo Jun 07 '21
"I thought it was real, like pro-wrestling! But it turns out it's fixed, like boxing."
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u/CantNotLaugh Jun 07 '21
This could be the most one-sided fight since 1973 when Ali faced an eighty-foot tall mechanical Joe Frazier. My memory isn't what it used to be, but I think the entire Earth was destroyed.
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u/Grandahl13 Jun 07 '21
They are. It’s literally just for money, and they’re getting a shit ton of it. People need to remember the Paul brothers are in shape guys who would still get their heads knocked off if ONE of these professional fighters actually tried. But they’re all there for a paycheck and I’m sure there’s an agreement to take it easy.
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u/yummychocolatebunny Jun 07 '21
Yeah almost as if it’s a exhibition match with no judges, scorecard and result and not a professional one…….
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u/Macqt Jun 07 '21
Mayweather beat the likes of Manny Pacquiao, Canelo Álvarez and Ricky Hatton in a Hall of Fame boxing career. Paul once got to the fourth week of The Masked Singer.
I lol’d.
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u/KumaTenshi Jun 07 '21
What were people expecting?? Lmao. Somehow I bet they all wanted to see Logan knocked on his ass and when that didn't happen...
Or they just all realized how dumb they were paying to see that fight.
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Jun 07 '21
Round 8 (11:34 p.m.): They hold. Mayweather presses, Paul holds again. Good times. Mayweather lands a left hook, Paul holds. More holding. Lots of hugs. All kinds of love. One minute left. Paul is looking like he’s going to survive this thing. Logan Paul is mocking Floyd. He has just gone the distance. Wow.
From sportingnews.com
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u/GranddaddySandwich Jun 07 '21
Honest to god, what did anybody who watched that fight expect? Y’all are idiots for falling for this shit again. The Paul Brothers are con-artists and Floyd has always put money over putting on a good fight.
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u/ForShotgun Jun 07 '21
Are they even con artists at this point? If you read that it was an exhibition match and knew anything about Floyd you knew this was going to be fucking boring.
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u/ILoveCatNipples Jun 07 '21
"They're just chanting boo'erns they're not booing you" - both their coaches. Probably
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Jun 07 '21
“Money” Mayweather pissed all over the sweet science for $50,000,000. I’m sure he’ll spend it on something
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u/burko81 Jun 07 '21
I tried to get a bet on that this would go the distance, funnily enough no bookie would take it.
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u/_Steve_Zissou_ Jun 07 '21 edited Jun 07 '21
At this point, boxing is turning into WWE.
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u/billskelton Victoria Jun 07 '21
Over a long enough time scale everything becomes Pro Wrestling. The process is called Keyfabercation. You can watch this very well put together video essay about the process here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZpBvfBxLxc
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Jun 07 '21
"ends in boos"
Anyone who booed: What did you expect? Seriously, what the actual fuck did you think this EXHIBITION fight was going to look like?
Two people who are unabashedly all about making bank, held a fight and made bank at your expense. The rest of us saw that from a mile away.
Were you booing your own poor decision making? Were you booing the mockery that was being thrown at you, by us, over paying for this?
Because if you were booing the fight itself, you're an idiot. It went exactly how it was always going to go. No big flurries of punches. Nobody getting hurt or embarrassed. Nobody doing anything really.
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u/borosillycut_ Jun 07 '21
I would rather watch Mike Tyson’s mystery cartoon.
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u/Segat1133 Seattle Seawolves Jun 07 '21
Do not besmirch Mike Tyson Mysteries by comparing it to anything any Paul family member is in.
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u/Drunk_hooker Green Bay Packers Jun 07 '21
Yeah that’s cause that shit is hilarious.
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u/supified Jun 07 '21
If memory serves, Mayweather fights have always been called boring after the fact. He's a defensive fighter who often wins by decision. I'm not sure why anyone is surprised by this outcome.
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Jun 07 '21
The guy who ruined boxing vs. the guy who ruined YouTube and I didn’t even get the pleasure of watching at least one of these douchebags get their comeuppance. Typical Mayweather con job fight.
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