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BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

>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

In the Olympics, I always root for the older athlete, 30 year old female
gymnasts, swimmers in their late 30s. Wasn't Stallone this age in his
latest "Rocky makes a comeback" movie?

>and Paul has worked himself up into a hulk.

Having muscles for show doesn't mean one can throw a punch hard enough.

>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.

Are you suggesting he cheated and took steroids? I'm shocked.

>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.

Huge numbers of complaints about this almost nationwide.

>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.)

>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.

I'm sorry this wasn't satisfactory.

>Honestly, the undercard with the two chicks was a much more exciting fight.
>Both were a bloody mess by the final bell.