Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-15 (Friday)

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.