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In article <vhfqmu$1arvo$2@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com wrote:
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>On Nov 16, 2024 at 11:26:26 AM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
>wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>I want to get in a time machine and go back to 1998 and try to convince people
>that in 2024, a 60ish Mike Tyson will be fighting the kid from the Disney
>Channel and it will be broadcast over the world-wide web by the company that
>rents DVDs through the mail.

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