Jake Paul v Tommy Fury

When the fights stats include how many instagram followers you have.. you pretty much know what hour’re getting and what it’s all about. Boxing highlights.. “father and brothers have all been professional boxers”

It’s a bit like that MTV thing celebrity deathmatch.. but in real life and with much worse ‘celebrities’

We’ve always had this sort of thing.. it just seems that people want to pay a lot more money to see it.

Anyone remember ‘The Battle of the Sexes’ the tennis match between 55-year-old Bobby Riggs and 29-year-old Billie Jean King, which King won in three sets.The match was viewed by an estimated fifty million people in the United States and ninety million worldwide. That guy probably made more money off that than most professional tennis players.
 
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Norman_Conquest said:
When I hear 'wrestling' I immediately think of Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Mick McManus, Kendo Nagasaki, etc.

Anyone who watched these just couldn't take it seriously.

P.S. Who was the Native American who used to do the dance?
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Billy Two Rivers? He died a couple of weeks ago. His son is Wayne Hemingway, the fashion designer.
 
Always made me laugh. You could kick Mick McManus in the face and smash him all over and he would get on with it; but touch him on the ears and he couldn't cope. "Not the ears please not the ears".
Always Recovered to win though being the honed athlete he was..
 
Scrug said:
Of course the American gave it to Paul 😂
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Shocking that! Thought his brother showed himself up in that interview. The studio panel were very sarcastic and cutting.. rightly so.

Carl Froch on Jake Paul: "He can't call himself a professional boxer. He's bringing discredit and disgust to the world of professional boxing. "He wasn't really in the fight, let's be honest."
 
The pundits in the studio seemed almost embarrassed to be there, it was very strange every time they cut to them.

Fights in Saudi need to stop as well, the atmosphere is always terrible. At least it comes across that way on telly.
 
It's a genuine shame that last night brought in more viewers than some of the top fights over the years.

Boxing is turning into a circus.

Aaron Chalmers (whoever the f*ck he is) fought Mayweather on Saturday too. It's happening far too often.

Can't really blame Jake Paul/Tommy Fury taking on these fights as the payouts are just ridiculous, but it's a sad state of affairs that these boxing fights are generating more interest/viewers/money/publicity etc than some of the great title bouts.
 
Marvanelli said:
It's a genuine shame that last night brought in more viewers than some of the top fights over the years.

Boxing is turning into a circus.

Aaron Chalmers (whoever the f*ck he is) fought Mayweather on Saturday too. It's happening far too often.

Can't really blame Jake Paul/Tommy Fury taking on these fights as the payouts are just ridiculous, but it's a sad state of affairs that these boxing fights are generating more interest/viewers/money/publicity etc than some of the great title bouts.
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Boxing at his best has always been a bit of a circus. You could probably say the same about soccer aid.. more people tuning in to watch Robbie Williams wobble past Gordon Ramsey than they did to watch the fa cup final.. more money generated etc
 
And to cap it all off, a part that I missed last night - he got a big shiny "belt" for winning the fight. As if the whole thing has not cheapened boxing already. Proper boxers dedicate their careers to winning a Lonsdale belt, or a one of the world titles belts or similar. I don't know the official title of this belt. Is it an IBF belt - Internet Bullschitters Federation?

That genuinely annoyed me when I saw in in breakfast telly this morning.
 
newyddion said:
Boxing at his best has always been a bit of a circus. You could probably say the same about soccer aid.. more people tuning in to watch Robbie Williams wobble past Gordon Ramsey than they did to watch the fa cup final.. more money generated etc
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Nobody cares who wins Soccer Aid though. That is clearly entertainment and they don't even try to hide it. It might be fairly competitive for the people involved because they want to win but it's still primarily for fun and it's for charity so people don't mind paying if it is helping people.

But yes, boxing has itself to blame. At least this fight was an even fight. The majority of PPVs are fighters building their CV by fighting journeymen. Complete mismatches setup deliberately to build hype and then they never fight anyone decent because they don't want to lose their record/cash cow. The whole "sport" is a joke. It's just about money so if that is the goal then it probably does make more sense to have celebrity fights that already have a big following than risking a decade on a fighter that never generates the PPV interest. Boxing has completely done away with the pretence of it being about who is the best like a sport should so can only have itself to blame.

Just the fact that everything is run by promoters and not by some sort of governing body tells you the whole story. Boxing really isn't much different to WWE.
 
Steer said:
And to cap it all off, a part that I missed last night - he got a big shiny "belt" for winning the fight. As if the whole thing has not cheapened boxing already. Proper boxers dedicate their careers to winning a Lonsdale belt, or a one of the world titles belts or similar. I don't know the official title of this belt. Is it an IBF belt - Internet Bullschitters Federation?

That genuinely annoyed me when I saw in in breakfast telly this morning.
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That was embarrassing..
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Still.. not as bad as the one Jake Paul made himself ‘most valuable boxer belt’

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