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

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,

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I don't really like sports or boxing in particular.  But even I watched
this match, for the exact same reason.
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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.
 

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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.  :)