Whatever Happened to The Man Beating The Man to be The Man???

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by bnorth

We actually want the same outcome. I am just being realistic if it is actually a real fight.

As a former boxer in my personal experience a young above average boxer will easily beat an old former great boxer. I know I used to love when the old former nationally ranked guys would come to the gym to spar. Just the speed difference made them very easy to hit and avoid their slow punches. Now sadly I am the old guy getting lit up by kids that when I was their age I would have easily beat.

That's kind of my fear.

Tyson lost badly to a couple gatekeeper type boxers to end his career 20 years ago.

Jake Paul is probably a few rungs of the ladder behind those guys, but Tyson is 20 years older, and last I heard, smoking lots of pot, is NOT a performance enhancer.

Tyson was never known for his stamina, so if this goes rounds, it could get ugly.

I hope Tyson lights him up, and this whole thing is exposed for the spectacle that it is...but I have a feeling I'm going to be disappointed.

A part of me even thinks that Tyson is going to be happy just to get the payday...and if he does see an opening, he's not going to really go after it...and this will end up being just a lame exhibition like Tyson vs. Roy Jones or Floyd Mayweather vs. whoever he's fought in the last whatever, whatever......

....and the fact I'm even talking about this seriously right now, is part of why I haven't really tracked boxing for several years now. It's just depressing.