Quote from: Baofeng on September 28, 2022, 11:42:56 PM

Quote from: melody82 on September 28, 2022, 10:51:31 PM

Personally I think all of the jake Paul fights are staged. Go back and watch, it looks to me like his opponents are really holding back. There is a world of difference between athletic guys and champions. Jake Paul doesn't belong in there with the top guys. Just my opinion though. One thing I do like is that some mma guys that didn't really get paid during their mma careers are getting some big paydays from a glorified workout with Paul. Can't complain about that. And if people like this stuff, and want to be entertained, I have nothing against that either. If I was to bet, I would bet on Paul to win, because I think that is the predetermined outcome, but, I can see Silva accidentally pooping him one and getting the ko, so I don't think I will actually bet on the event.

Of course, what do you expect from this kind of fights? this is all for fun and money grab for them, specially for high level former fighters. But the hype they are putting prior to the fight though that makes other believed that they really wanted to take each other heads off. But when the bell rings, they are holding it back and not giving their 100% on the fight. And when the winner was announced, it could be a draw and everyone was so frustrated with the decision specially if you have a bet on it. So it's better to stay away from actually betting on this kind of exhibition fights.

I honestly don't know weather you people are just stupid, signature shiotpsting or don't know anything about boxing. Show me the evidence of all this "holding back". These boxing fights are the same as any other. Nobody wants to lose. Everybody wants to win. They're all done for the money but there's absolutely no evidence to suggest the fights are fixed or the outcome is 'decided'.

Are you trying to tell me all the people Jake has knocked out are just acting? Because if so, give them their Oscars:

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Direct links since the proxy seems to be blocking them:

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They all go down from great punches. No acting or anything suspicious, they just got shook from a good punch and nobody can stop their brains from rattling around in their skulls.

Is it really not possible that Jake might actually just be a pretty good boxer? He's surprised me for sure but he's deserved the wins and I've seen nothing that would suggest any fighter is holding back or not trying to hurt him. Put him in the ring with another Pro boxer coming up like Tommy Fury and I think we'll see how similarly matched they are. That's one reason why I really want that fight to happen and hopefully it will shut up a lot of this nonsense. If Jake can get passed Silva and someone like Fury and do a good job there's no reason why we couldn't see him against a decent current pro boxer but he needs to build himself up to that.

Quote from: OgNasty on Today at 01:43:20 AM

When people start these vs threads they should really make them polls. I’m curious who the community feels is going to win this one but don’t want to read through and tally everything myself. I think that youth is going to beat experience in this one, but I also don’t think Jake can knock him out so we’ll have to see if he can win when it comes down to a decision.

Noted. Next time I'll do that.