The latest Jake Paul fight exposed the difference between Fight fans and Mike Tyson fans

[Mack Yancy]

Some of you have to start admitting that Dana White is your daddy. He's conditioned you to be impressed by a power slap and you've forgotten everything you know about fighting.


But on a slightly more serious note, some of you were never combat sports fans to begin with, you were Mike Tyson fans growing up who liked to watch him knock people out very quickly and act like a menace outside of the ring. These kind of fans grew up to become Conor McGregor and Ronda Rousey fans, they are products of watching hong kong cinema as a kid, and thinking that 'tiger claw' is a real, deadly practical art then growing up during the 'Attitude Era' of Wrestling. You see Tyson slap a show business grifter like Jake Paul, and now you have GROWN ASS MEN with wife, kids and taxes talking about how 'Classic Mike' is back, and his hand speed is just as good as when he was 20.



Mike is an old ass man who lived a less than perfectly healthy lifestyle. His knee blew out, yes. But his whole body is falling apart, why? Because he's a senior citizen in a fucking boxing ring. He should be playing chess and bingo on the weekends not getting punched in the face by 27 year olds on camera. I don't want to hear shit about 'social media corrupting the youth', because a lot of you guys are in your 40s and 50s and you fell for the online marketing just as much if not more than the young people did. Watching 6 seconds tiktoks of Mike hitting pads quickly and you're all like 'OHH SHIT HE'S BACK!'



It's embarrassing. You really all drank the kool-aid on that Roy Jones fight. You saw a 54 year old Mike have a moderately paced sparring session against a shot-to-hell career middleweight and started talking about a comeback. I know that casuals are the life blood of all sports entertainment, but that doesn't mean that any fight fan is obligated to take you seriously in discourse.

 

[Busgosu]

 

[Thy]

i mean i'm a tyson fan and a fight fan. that's why i couldn't watch and wish this fight never happened.

 

[oscerthegrouch]

Didnt watch that fight Because it wasn't one

 

[Jose Beehive]

Indeed.. a lot of these “Tyson fans” thought they were going to witness the baddest man on the planet smash some overhyped villainous YouTuber in seconds.

 

[Mack Yancy]

Indeed.. a lot of these “Tyson fans” thought they were going to witness the baddest man on the planet smash some overhyped villainous YouTuber in seconds.

A lot of older dudes were kind of trying to vicariously live through Tyson and punch the annoying Gen Z social media brat in the face with 'good ol' classic Iron Mike power' Jake swindled these dusty idiots by selling them a boomer fantasy.

 

[Jose Beehive]

A lot of older dudes were kind of trying to vicariously live through Tyson and punch the annoying Gen Z social media brat in the face with 'good ol' classic Iron Mike power' Jake swindled these dusty idiots by selling them a boomer fantasy.

For sure, I think even people who aren’t fight fans or fans of either Jake or Tyson, who just hear of this shit in the media, would come to that same assumption with very minimal knowledge on any of anything to do with it.
I heard this fight mentioned by 2 people I know in their mid 30’s both make assumed out of character statements that Tyson was going to annihilate some awful kid.

 

[13Seconds]

Ok but why are you posting it here? This is a boxing discussion

 

[Mack Yancy]

Ok but why are you posting it here? This is a boxing discussion

How much money did you lose on Tyson?

 

[Mohawk Banditó]

How much money did you lose on Tyson?

Don't be a sad sack. This ramble is completely irrelevant to the UFC. Telling you that isn't in any way connected to whether we knew Tyson was an old man that was not going to compete with Paul.

 

[TJ Dillashank]

Jake was always going to beat up Mike but Jake still sucks. What good is being the best thirty years ago if you can't move now?

That said Jake Paul isn't a serious boxer and I think most people on here were just praying he would get knocked out.

 

[chardog]

Dumb thread, plenty of folks knew it was a payday for mike, the same thing with Stipe. It’s entertainment FFS

 

[Mack Yancy]

Don't be a sad sack. This ramble is completely irrelevant to the UFC. Telling you that isn't in any way connected to whether we knew Tyson was an old man that was not going to compete with Paul.

So you lost a lot of money betting on tyson, got it.

 

[PaddyO'malley]

This was not been at all related to UFC or The Global Phenomenon that is #PowerSlap .

Mods, you was do your worst on this shameful dissenter!

 

[ocfightfan]

Show me on the doll where Dana White touched you.

 

[Dave Poodle]

Actually didn't see any boxing fans interested in that farce. The people talking about it on my timelines were people who don't watch combat sports, that's who it was aimed at.

 

[Sms_productions713]

Jake ruined an amazing opportunity to become the biggest heel of this generation!

He should have said he would give tyson the same amount for going the distance or knocked out, and put tyson lights out cold like he did woodley.

He would have gotten that quiet Heat, and all the pics of a sold out stadium, with him standing over a lifeless tyson laid out in the ring.

He would have ruined everyones child hood memories of tyson. Also the fact that knocming out a 60 year old man is just fucked up in general.

He ruined a great opportunity

 

[SuperNerd]

TS is a looooooser lol.

 

[Dionysian]

It made me feel good a tiny bit. Before this I only thought MMA fans were that much of morons that they didn't understand the concept of time passing.

Now I know there are millions of other people that are truly that stupid and thought your name being "Mike Tyson" matters more than being 58 years old when it comes to combat sports. It makes it slightly less embarrassing to be an MMA fan where people prop up victories over a retired 42 year old Stipe as being indicative of you being P4P #1 in the world ha.

 

[613]

Most Tyson "fans" are not boxing fans. Most have only ever seen Tyson highlights and assume he is the goat, even though his resume is pretty weak