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From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-15 (Friday)
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 21:54:52 -0800
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On 11/16/2024 8:55 PM, EGK wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 18:29:50 -0800, Arthur Lipscomb
> <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 11/16/2024 11:07 AM, BTR1701 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,
>>
>> I don't really like sports or boxing in particular.  But even I watched
>> this match, for the exact same reason.
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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 kept wondering why Tyson didn't take obvious opportunities to take
>> Paul down.  At first I assumed it must be because Tyson is pushing 60.
>> But then I began to see comments about the contract he signed.  I don't
>> know if it's true or not, but from what I read Tyson's contract said
>> that he couldn't knock out Paul in the early rounds without taking a
>> massive financial hit.  If it is true it might explain why Tyson rarely
>> threw punches.
> 
> Take him down? You mean like they do in Mixed martial arts?   This was
> boxing.  There are no takedowns in boxing.  :)

I mean take him down like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOHvMqAgcmc

Instead the fight felt more like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFjb7qzf-Ik

:-)