[Other Sport] Jake Paul vs Tommy Fury

[StonehamPark]

I enjoyed that very much.
Glad Tommy won.

Judges scored it wide imo, looked closer to me.
Rematch will be next I’m sure, good on Tommy.

 

[Sheebo]

I enjoyed that very much.
Glad Tommy won.

Judges scored it wide imo, looked closer to me.
Rematch will be next I’m sure, good on Tommy.

Yeh me too. Sure it was never gonna be top level boxing but was good fun and Fury is a nice bloke for sure.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Why have they given him a belt

 

[Sheebo]

Commentator asks Jake Paul's brother what he said to Jake before the fight. (paraphrasing) "I said I believe in you, you got this. I love you man"

The commentator replies "I love you too"

We were creasing up with that

 

[hart's shirt]

Jake Paul: "It is what it is."

We've heard that before.

 

[Algernon]

I've seen worse "proper" boxing fights.
Jake Paul looked wired from the start, even on his walk to the ring.

 

[StonehamPark]

Pretty novice post-fight comments from Paul, but he’s very green.

For the first time though, I do give Jake credit after that fight. He put on a good show and stepped up to a proper boxer, and put on a decent performance.
Will definitely watch the rematch.

If I were able to give him one tip though, it’d be to rely less on the Wilder right hand.

 

[brighton_tom]

Ive definitely watched worse quality boxing from 'real' boxers. Enjoyed that more than I thought i would. Glad Tommy won.

Jake Paul saying he didnt agree with the judges points and saying he wasnt fully fit seemed poor comments.

 

[brighton_tom]

How much did they reportedly earn from that?

 

[Sheebo]

How much did they reportedly earn from that?

They had the contract there and then to sign for winner takes all then apparently there was no mention as to whether it was signed. Not a clue re money - assume that really wasn’t the reason as both minted you’d assume. Tyson certainly doesn’t box for the money as gives loads away I think…

 

[Official Old Man]

Did people really pay big bucks to watch that?

 

[Sheebo]

Did people really pay big bucks to watch that?

You mean in person or pay per view?

How did you watch it?

 

[Official Old Man]

You mean in person or pay per view?

PPV. I'm guessing their YouTube followers get roped in to pay to watch these guys. I had it on in the backround as working on laptop using you know what!

 

[Sheebo]

PPV. I'm guessing their YouTube followers get roped in to pay to watch these guys. I had it on in the backround as working on laptop using you know what!

Ah. Yeh I paid but tbh was a nice eve. Watched all the undercard and had a few fun bets - but tbh was nice cos the Mrs was well into it. Didn’t expect top level boxing and will be getting a refund from BT as stream went down for a bit but we won £40 profit on Fury so had fun tbh. Didn’t expect top level boxing more panto and dislike that arrogant Paul so made it interesting…

 

[StonehamPark]

PPV. I'm guessing their YouTube followers get roped in to pay to watch these guys. I had it on in the backround as working on laptop using you know what!

I'm going to guess that the PPV numbers for this fight were pretty damn big.
His followers as well as a many general boxing fans.

This fight crossed the threshold of the YouTube boxing farce, into a pretty big boxing event.

Bear in mind, I'm not a Jake Paul fan at all, in terms of his YouTube channel or persona. But you've got to give credit where due.

 

[Official Old Man]

Ah. Yeh I paid but tbh was a nice eve. Watched all the undercard and had a few fun bets - but tbh was nice cos the Mrs was well into it. Didn’t expect top level boxing and will be getting a refund from BT as stream went down for a bit but we won £40 profit on Fury so had fun tbh. Didn’t expect top level boxing more panto and dislike that arrogant Paul so made it interesting…

Yeh, things we never knew our wives liked. Mine wanted to watch a bout a few years ago, think it was a Tyson Fury fight that had heavy publicity. We watched it but never sat down to watch another together, strange.

 

[StonehamPark]

Post fight presser:

 

[FatSuperman]

Also the first fight I've ever watched with my wife, usually I watch them on my own, or ocassionally in the pub with friends. And she wanted to watch purely because she followed the Love Island season with Tommy on it. She seems to know almost everything about him and his wife Molly. I don't mind, had a nice evening explaining all the ins and outs of boxing (well, what little I know really).

I think the purse was around $10m - presumably Jake Paul takes a bigger slice as his team produced / arranged the fight. Was an insanely big fight for two novices. Boxing can learn a thing or two about self-promotion from these YouTube celebs.

I did find the BT studio team really condescending about this. It was actually embarrasing listening to them barely hiding their utter disdain for the match. It's potential bringing millions of new boxing fans into the sport, why be so elitist?

 

[Weststander]

Jake Paul: "It is what it is."

We've heard that before.

We take the positives and the group moves on.

 

[Lenny Rider]

We take the positives and the group moves on.

You forgot the fine margins