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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-15 (Friday)
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 14:33:40 -0500
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On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 19:07:20 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
wrote:

>On Nov 16, 2024 at 1:30:40 AM PST, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>
>> What did you watch?
>
>I watched the Jake Paul/Mike Tyson fight on the Netflix in the hope that Tyson
>would knock Paul's teeth down his throat, though I had to recognize the
>reality that Tyson is almost 60 and Paul has worked himself up into a hulk.
>He's a far cry from that skinny punk I interviewed for pretending to evade
>White House security back in the day. The odds were never in Tyson's favor.
>
>First, the Netflix obviously isn't as well-equipped to do this live event
>streaming thing as the Primes, which pulls off live NFL games every week
>without any noticeable problems. I initially tried watching live and it
>immediately started buffering every 20 seconds and in between the buffers, the
>picture was so badly pixellated, you could barely make out the cleavage on the
>Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders. I had to stop it and choose “Watch from the
>beginning” (not live) to get a nice crystal clear picture with no buffering.
>Even that would break up and pixellate occasionally, but only at the
>beginning. By the time they got to the main event, all the problems had
>cleared up.

This was good practice for Netflix before they start trying to air
more live events. There were enough issues that it made the trending
tag over on the Twitterverse.

>I watched the whole four-hour thing while doing some engraving work on the
>computer, It consisted of two bouts with lesser male fighters, then what
>seemed to be a highly anticipated grudge match between two female fighters. (I
>don't follow boxing at all, so none of these people were known to me in any
>way.)

Yeah, just going by Twitter it seems the female bout was the biggest
thing outside of the Tyson/Paul bout.

>As usual with these things, the "main event" was a disappointment. Neither
>Paul nor Tyson beat the other up. They each landed a few punches but nothing
>serious. They mostly just danced around each other, swinging and missing, for
>8 rounds. Paul won based on technical scoring, not because he knocked Tyson on
>his ass or anything.
>
>Honestly, the undercard with the two chicks was a much more exciting fight.
>Both were a bloody mess by the final bell.
>