September 6, 2025 • 14 mins
Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather are fighting. They are 80 lbs different and their combined age is almost 150 years old.. This is a TERRIBLE Idea and boxing is dying a slow and painful death
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, folks, we are back on the way concept
presented by The Ring magazine, and I'm just baffled that
I'm bringing you this video Mike Tyson versus Floyd Mayweather
and an exhibition bout for spring of twenty twenty six
was announced. And from what I'm hearing and seeing, folks,
this thing has been signed. It's not one of those
things that may or may not happen. The only thing
(00:21):
I guess they're waiting on is a date and a venue.
Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather is happening. What the fuck
is going on? The breakdown? Let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
So, folks.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
As you can see, Mike Tyson Floyd Mayweather agreed to
an exhibition bout or an exhibition fight per TMZ. Both
fighters have signed contracts and the fight a schedule for
spring twenty twenty six. Now, before we even get into
this thing, this is where boxing is in twenty twenty five.
And listen, I'm not gonna complain because I understand the
layout of things. We already had Jake Paul, Mike Tyson,
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We have Jake Paul Gavonte, Tank Davis. This feels like
the version of it, and that sounds crazy because we
have two of the greatest of all time about to
participate in this, but both of them are about thirty
years past their cell by date in an exhibition bout
in which their weights will be sixty to seventy to
eighty pounds different. If you got on board with Jake
and Mike, it was because at least they were going
(01:16):
to weigh the same. There was that mystery of intrigue
is like, maybe Mike has a little bit left in
the tank.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Maybe Mike is not all the way done. And that's
more the casual.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Audience that thought that, not the people that actually knew
that Mike had nothing left twenty years ago, let alone
now at fifty eight fifty nine. It wasn't going to
be competitive. I told you guys, it wasn't going to
be competitive.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It was a spectacle.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
It did a crap ton of numbers, and clearly this
fight is a spinoff of it. As we've seen over
the years from many TV shows, the spinoff never does
as well as the original. In fact, in most cases,
it absolutely bombs. Now, I don't know if that's gonna
happen here, but it's clear why it's happening. The success
of Jake Paul, Mike Tyson. Honestly, maybe the success of
Floyd Mayweather Logan Paul way back when people still care
(02:00):
about Floyd mayweather exhibitions before he started fighting John Gotti
the third and Aaron Chalmers and one I did live
in person Degie. But since then, no one's watched Floyd's exhibitions.
He's been just I guess, stealing the bag bank robbery
style from some of these companies. And now Mike Tyson
is apparently on board. And I don't even know what
(02:20):
to think. Someone on Twitter said it perfectly. Either everybody
in the world is going to want to watch this,
or ten thousand people will watch it. I don't really
know another way to describe it, because I have no
idea the level of intrigue here. I have no idea
outside of the fact that probably both men want a
shit ton of money and they're being promised to shit
ton of money. Why this is happening, But it's happening.
(02:42):
So you know, let's take a look at the article
by TMZ or said we're told to match which we
put on by CSI sports Slash Fight Sports, CSI Sports
Crime Scene Investigation Sports.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
That's what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Honestly, might make a little sense because after watching Mike
Tyson fight Jake Paul and looking at how broke down
he was, this entire fight might be draped in yellow tape.
I'm gonna say it's a crime to put Mike back
in a boxing ring after what that fight.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Turned out to be. Now again, I knew that going in,
and a lot of people did. It was a spectacle
and it was a circus.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
But now even on top of that, we're adding this
massive weight difference, and yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Anyway, let's keep it going.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
The tail of the tape, they have it here Mike
fifty nine, Floyd forty eight, Mike five to ten, Floyd
at five eight, Floyd with a seventy two inch reach
at five eight, Mike with one of the shortest reaches
for his height, fifty and seven fifty to Ohero and
their KOs No mention of the weight here.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
In the tail of the tape interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
An exact date and precise location are not yet known,
but nonetheless, Tyson said he's thrilled to be slated to
mix it up with Floyd, who he hasn't always I
had the greatest relationship quote this fight is something neither
the world nor I ever thought would or could happen.
That is correct air play to Mike there Iron. Mike said, however,
boxing has entered a new era of the unpredictable, and
(04:00):
this fight is as unpredictable.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
As it gets. He's right. Do I like stuff like this?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
No? I didn't like the Jake Mike fight. I told
you guys that I didn't think Mike should have been
fighting then. I don't think he should be fighting now.
I don't like the fact that Jake and Jervonte are
fighting when Dramonte is a sitting champion. At least these
two are retired. But this is an indication, and I've
said this over and over of where boxing is that
this will probably have a ton of injury. But it's
almost like the WWE rolling out Stone Cold Steve Austin
(04:28):
or Rest in Peace hul Cogan whenever they need a
big time pop and whenever they need to get the
crowd energized because their current stars just aren't hitting the same.
This is what boxing feels like right now. Boxing feels
like Antique's Roads Show. Honestly, that this kind of stuff,
that's what it feels like. And again, it's the spectacle,
it's the entertainment value, and it is the era of
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the unpredictable. As Mike says, there, but it's not good.
I tell you that, it is not good. This is
why we need people like Turkey, Ella, Shake, Eddie hearn
Oscar De la Hoya, Hell Dana White to come into
boxing and fix shit, because stuff like this and Jake
and Gravonte is kind of the norm. Now, Mike says,
I still can't believe Floyd really wants to do this.
He added, it's gonna be detrimental to his health, but
(05:10):
he wants to do.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It, so it's signed and it's happening.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It's not even believable to hear Mike talk like that now,
because yes, ten years ago, twenty years ago, thirty years ago,
he'd be right. But we saw Mike struggle to walk
into the ring versus Jake, and yeah, Mike was dangerous
enough for Jake not engage with him, but Jake not
engaging with him, just circled and jabbed his way to
the ending of an exhibition where both guys get their
(05:34):
hand raised, and we all feel like, yeah, that wasn't
a fight, because clearly Mike is not the same, and
clearly Jake did not want to take that extra step
to try to actually put him away, especially later on.
Do we think that this one's gonna be any different?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
The answer is no.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Floyd, even though he slowed down, even though he's much smaller,
is going to run circles around Mike Tyson in this.
Mike's gonna have real trouble even getting to the fight.
If we saw the Jake Paulx phibition, Mike was hospitalized
for a bit, then he had to take a lot
of time off from training, had a stomach ulcer, and then.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Again the limping to the ring. Ah Man.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
The whole detrimental to his health. It's detrimental to Mike's
health to even try to do this. The article keeps going,
this fight will be an exhibition, so Mayweather isn't risking
his perfect fifty to zero record, though he doesn't sound
concerned about Tyson in any way. I've been doing this
for thirty years and there hasn't been a single fighter
that can tarnish my legacy. Mayweather said, you already know
that if I'm gonna do something, it's gonna be big,
and it's gonna be legendary except the last five exhibition
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fights that no one watched, and that Floyd still found
a way to extort the amount of money. I still
don't know how he made mills doing those fights. Literally
no one showed up to some of those. I can't
even name some of the people he did exhibitions. Again,
I'm the best in the business of boxing. This exhibition
will give the fans what they want.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
No, no, it won't.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I'm not gonna lie. I'm gonna watch this. I don't
know about you guys, but the Circus Show is something
that I'm gonna cover. You may not like it, and
trust me, I don't either. It has a spectacle and
it'll be current news if it does actually happen. Yeah,
I'm gonna watch it, and I'm probably gonna clown the
shit out of it because at this point there's nothing
else you can really do. I can't take it seriously,
especially again after the Jake and Mike fight.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I definitely can. I will say.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I mean, Floyd does have experience now doing these exhibitions
against bigger guys. He got used to it in the
Logan exhibition, so at least there's that, and there is
a good bit of bad blood back and forth between
Floyd and Mike over the years. Uh, there's been some
pretty choice words, more from Mike's.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Side than any other side.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
But he has absolutely on multiple occasions told Floyd off
and uh, well here's one of them.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
He said that he's better than Muhammad Ali. Yep, I'm
better than Mhamad Ali.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
We're gonna think about Floyd talking about he's very delusion though,
if he, if he was anywhere in there, that that
realm Grandon Aley, he'd be able to take his chips
to school by himself. Okay, he can't take He can't
take his kids to school by himself. And he talking
about he's great. Greatness is not guarding a help from
the people. Greatness is being accepted by the people. He
(08:03):
can't take his kid alone to school by himself. He's
a little scared man. He's a very small scared man.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
This was about ten years ago now maybe more. And
look at that look in Mike's eyes. That might I mean,
even by the way, if Mike Tyson rolled.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Up on me right now, I'm still terrified. But that
was a Mike.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Tyson that had violence in his eyes, and it was
because of the way that Floyd talked about Mike's hero,
Muhammad Ali. Mike had always said, let every head bow,
let every tongue confess, Muhammad Ali is the greatest of
all time.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
He always always.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Put Ali on that pedestal. So when Floyd was talking
crazy about Ali, it got to Mike.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
If you could have fought any fighter, any era, who
would you have picked that you would have liked to
fight the most? Floyd Mayweather? I love it. Why huh
do you want to knock him out? Why I would
have loved him before?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
And I wish you with my weight?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
All right, interesting answer. There you have it. Mike definitely
not like Floyd, and I.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Think it's mostly because the way Floyd called himself the
greatest and maybe his style of fighting a bit of
his arrogance. But again, Mike was arrogant. Mike said some
crazy shit back in his day and did some crazy shit.
So Mike just feels like Floyd is disrespected Ali by
calling himself the greatest.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
But let's see.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
There's also a press release here from Fight Sports, the
company that's supposedly putting this thing on set to me
in a once in a lifetime matchup of living levin.
How many time are we gonna hear once in a
lifetime matchup? I swear we've heard it for so many
different fights. I mean it is true that this would
never happen in any other lifetime. We're living in a
simulations and this is only gonna happen between these two onns.
(09:38):
But good lord, find a different tagline, a Global Spectacle
insert GFx? All right, man, They didn't put any GFx
in their own press release. That's an instruction in their
press release to insert some sort of video graphics.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
They can't even get the press release, right man.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Okay, so let's read some of the stuff from the
actual promoters. Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather are two of
the most compelling names and personalities with lasting legacies in
all of sports.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Tyson versus Mayweather will break every broadcast, streaming and economic
record set by Mike Tyson in twenty twenty four. Okay,
Mike Tyson and Jake Paul That right there is a
big statement that they're going to break every broadcast, streaming
and economic records. So that would mean they're gonna have
to put it behind a Netflix esque streaming service, I
would assume because you're not breaking one hundred and fifty
(10:29):
million or whatever they did behind a pay per view wall.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
There's no shot, all right. So so with that being said,
what are my thoughts on this? As much as I've
been a part of the ecosystem of the Jake Paul
versus Mike Tyson, the Floyd Mayweather versus Logan Paul exhibition
style fights, I know Jake versus Mike was a pro fight,
but you get what I'm saying. And now with Jake
and Jervonte Davis, Now this one's a little different because
Mike and Floyd are both retired. But I'm starting to
see boxers like Jervonte Davis, who is a sitting world champion,
(10:56):
We're going championship level fights in his own weight division
to fight money fight while still holding his belt. It
does start to blur the lines between competitive boxing, real
boxing per se and these exhibition money making bouts. Because,
make no mistake, what I think is going to happen
in this fight is very similar to what I think
happened in the Jake and Mike fight and the Floyd
(11:18):
and Logan fight.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
A whole lot of nothing. You know what.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I'll stratch that Logan versus Floyd was actually somewhat entertaining
because Logan went for it and in moments actually hit
Floyd with some stuff and Floyd had.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
To use his experience to overcome that. I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Mike has the physical capability to quote unquote go for
He might have one or two bursts in the system,
like his body just can't handle this anymore. And again
I said this before the Jake fight, but it's even
more evident after the fact. You have no delusions of
grandeur here. You have no aura or mistique about what
Mike still has left. We saw it, We saw eight
(11:51):
rounds of it.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
It was pitiful.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
When we talk about ruining legacies, and I don't think
that anything Mike could do in a ring right now
would do that for me, because I can choose to
look back at the greatness Mike was and accept what
this is for what this is, a different venture, a
different avenue of his life, something completely separate from the
highest level he was. But I do worry about this
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current generation of brand new boxing fans, and there is
a lot of them thanks to the revolution of boxing.
The Jake Paul's the Turkey Ella Shakes, the Ring Magazine,
the the Zones, the Eddie Hearns, the Tyson Furies, the
Anthony Joshuas the Alexander Ussiks. This generation of boxing it
didn't get to see Mike in his prime, is gonna
look at this exhibition and go, that's the guy that
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everybody feared. That Mike Tyson guy. He's old, slow and
can't punch. He looks broken and beaten down. They're gonna
look at him with pity because they've already seen it.
They saw it in the Jake fight. I told you
it was coming in the Jake Fight, and still you
had to see it for yourself. It's like teaching a
kid not to put their hand on a hot stove.
You can tell them all you want. I can tell
you this is not gonna look good. I can tell
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you that it's going to be very to watch Mike
go again. I can tell you that Mike shouldn't be
doing it. And I say Mike, Mike, Mike. Because I've
seen Floyd still be able to hold his own at
forty eight. I don't really worry too much about Floyd here.
Because Mike can't punch. There's nothing left in that tank.
But again, just like that kid, he has to touch
the stove to know it's hot, even though you've told him.
I told you, guys before the Jake fight, and I'm
telling you again, this is gonna look bad. I'm gonna
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watch it, but grudgingly, but I'm gonna it's a damn shame.
I will say that we have ended up in this place.
But at the same time, I just what do you
do if there's money out there, and both Mike and
Floyd are two consenting adults that want to go in
there and do it. I can't really say anything. I
hope both guys get paid. I hope Mike gets whatever
money he needs. But I wish he wouldn't have to fight,
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or I wish there was another way for him to
make that money, or I wish he had enough money
to not do this. Because there's gonna be a section
of the audience. Maybe it's bigger than I believe that
look at this thing and go, Damn, that used to
be Mike Tyson, Damn that used to be Floyd Maywell.
Now it's just two old men moving around in a
ring and expecting us to believe they're fighting. The red
nose on us all I guess and call it what
it is. Welcome to the circus, folks. Mike Tyson will
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be fighting Floyd Mayweather, and as far as what happens
during the fight, I'm gonna tell you I think I
do have the answers this time. No one's gonna get hurt,
and I really don't want to see anyone get hurt.
And it's gonna look like two older men that are
not around the same way, looking like ghosts and shadows
of their former selves in an attempt to remain what
they were to some degree and make some money. Ladies
and gentlemen, this exhibition is gonna look. Prepare yourselves for
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it because it's gonna be a major letdown. What happens
next for Floyd and Mike? Does this fight actually even happen?
Or have those answers?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
So I guess we'll find out
All right, folks, we are back on the way concept
presented by The Ring magazine, and I'm just baffled that
I'm bringing you this video Mike Tyson versus Floyd Mayweather
and an exhibition bout for spring of twenty twenty six
was announced. And from what I'm hearing and seeing, folks,
this thing has been signed. It's not one of those
things that may or may not happen. The only thing
(00:21):
I guess they're waiting on is a date and a venue.
Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather is happening. What the fuck
is going on? The breakdown? Let's go.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
So, folks.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
As you can see, Mike Tyson Floyd Mayweather agreed to
an exhibition bout or an exhibition fight per TMZ. Both
fighters have signed contracts and the fight a schedule for
spring twenty twenty six. Now, before we even get into
this thing, this is where boxing is in twenty twenty five.
And listen, I'm not gonna complain because I understand the
layout of things. We already had Jake Paul, Mike Tyson,
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We have Jake Paul Gavonte, Tank Davis. This feels like
the version of it, and that sounds crazy because we
have two of the greatest of all time about to
participate in this, but both of them are about thirty
years past their cell by date in an exhibition bout
in which their weights will be sixty to seventy to
eighty pounds different. If you got on board with Jake
and Mike, it was because at least they were going
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to weigh the same. There was that mystery of intrigue
is like, maybe Mike has a little bit left in
the tank.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Maybe Mike is not all the way done. And that's
more the casual.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Audience that thought that, not the people that actually knew
that Mike had nothing left twenty years ago, let alone
now at fifty eight fifty nine. It wasn't going to
be competitive. I told you guys, it wasn't going to
be competitive.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It was a spectacle.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
It did a crap ton of numbers, and clearly this
fight is a spinoff of it. As we've seen over
the years from many TV shows, the spinoff never does
as well as the original. In fact, in most cases,
it absolutely bombs. Now, I don't know if that's gonna
happen here, but it's clear why it's happening. The success
of Jake Paul, Mike Tyson. Honestly, maybe the success of
Floyd Mayweather Logan Paul way back when people still care
(02:00):
about Floyd mayweather exhibitions before he started fighting John Gotti
the third and Aaron Chalmers and one I did live
in person Degie. But since then, no one's watched Floyd's exhibitions.
He's been just I guess, stealing the bag bank robbery
style from some of these companies. And now Mike Tyson
is apparently on board. And I don't even know what
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to think. Someone on Twitter said it perfectly. Either everybody
in the world is going to want to watch this,
or ten thousand people will watch it. I don't really
know another way to describe it, because I have no
idea the level of intrigue here. I have no idea
outside of the fact that probably both men want a
shit ton of money and they're being promised to shit
ton of money. Why this is happening, But it's happening.
(02:42):
So you know, let's take a look at the article
by TMZ or said we're told to match which we
put on by CSI sports Slash Fight Sports, CSI Sports
Crime Scene Investigation Sports.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
That's what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Honestly, might make a little sense because after watching Mike
Tyson fight Jake Paul and looking at how broke down
he was, this entire fight might be draped in yellow tape.
I'm gonna say it's a crime to put Mike back
in a boxing ring after what that fight.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Turned out to be. Now again, I knew that going in,
and a lot of people did. It was a spectacle
and it was a circus.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
But now even on top of that, we're adding this
massive weight difference, and yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Anyway, let's keep it going.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
The tail of the tape, they have it here Mike
fifty nine, Floyd forty eight, Mike five to ten, Floyd
at five eight, Floyd with a seventy two inch reach
at five eight, Mike with one of the shortest reaches
for his height, fifty and seven fifty to Ohero and
their KOs No mention of the weight here.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
In the tail of the tape interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
An exact date and precise location are not yet known,
but nonetheless, Tyson said he's thrilled to be slated to
mix it up with Floyd, who he hasn't always I
had the greatest relationship quote this fight is something neither
the world nor I ever thought would or could happen.
That is correct air play to Mike there Iron. Mike said, however,
boxing has entered a new era of the unpredictable, and
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this fight is as unpredictable.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
As it gets. He's right. Do I like stuff like this?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
No? I didn't like the Jake Mike fight. I told
you guys that I didn't think Mike should have been
fighting then. I don't think he should be fighting now.
I don't like the fact that Jake and Jervonte are
fighting when Dramonte is a sitting champion. At least these
two are retired. But this is an indication, and I've
said this over and over of where boxing is that
this will probably have a ton of injury. But it's
almost like the WWE rolling out Stone Cold Steve Austin
(04:28):
or Rest in Peace hul Cogan whenever they need a
big time pop and whenever they need to get the
crowd energized because their current stars just aren't hitting the same.
This is what boxing feels like right now. Boxing feels
like Antique's Roads Show. Honestly, that this kind of stuff,
that's what it feels like. And again, it's the spectacle,
it's the entertainment value, and it is the era of
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the unpredictable. As Mike says, there, but it's not good.
I tell you that, it is not good. This is
why we need people like Turkey, Ella, Shake, Eddie hearn
Oscar De la Hoya, Hell Dana White to come into
boxing and fix shit, because stuff like this and Jake
and Gravonte is kind of the norm. Now, Mike says,
I still can't believe Floyd really wants to do this.
He added, it's gonna be detrimental to his health, but
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he wants to do.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
It, so it's signed and it's happening.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
It's not even believable to hear Mike talk like that now,
because yes, ten years ago, twenty years ago, thirty years ago,
he'd be right. But we saw Mike struggle to walk
into the ring versus Jake, and yeah, Mike was dangerous
enough for Jake not engage with him, but Jake not
engaging with him, just circled and jabbed his way to
the ending of an exhibition where both guys get their
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hand raised, and we all feel like, yeah, that wasn't
a fight, because clearly Mike is not the same, and
clearly Jake did not want to take that extra step
to try to actually put him away, especially later on.
Do we think that this one's gonna be any different?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
The answer is no.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Floyd, even though he slowed down, even though he's much smaller,
is going to run circles around Mike Tyson in this.
Mike's gonna have real trouble even getting to the fight.
If we saw the Jake Paulx phibition, Mike was hospitalized
for a bit, then he had to take a lot
of time off from training, had a stomach ulcer, and then.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Again the limping to the ring. Ah Man.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
The whole detrimental to his health. It's detrimental to Mike's
health to even try to do this. The article keeps going,
this fight will be an exhibition, so Mayweather isn't risking
his perfect fifty to zero record, though he doesn't sound
concerned about Tyson in any way. I've been doing this
for thirty years and there hasn't been a single fighter
that can tarnish my legacy. Mayweather said, you already know
that if I'm gonna do something, it's gonna be big,
and it's gonna be legendary except the last five exhibition
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fights that no one watched, and that Floyd still found
a way to extort the amount of money. I still
don't know how he made mills doing those fights. Literally
no one showed up to some of those. I can't
even name some of the people he did exhibitions. Again,
I'm the best in the business of boxing. This exhibition
will give the fans what they want.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
No, no, it won't.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I'm not gonna lie. I'm gonna watch this. I don't
know about you guys, but the Circus Show is something
that I'm gonna cover. You may not like it, and
trust me, I don't either. It has a spectacle and
it'll be current news if it does actually happen. Yeah,
I'm gonna watch it, and I'm probably gonna clown the
shit out of it because at this point there's nothing
else you can really do. I can't take it seriously,
especially again after the Jake and Mike fight.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I definitely can. I will say.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I mean, Floyd does have experience now doing these exhibitions
against bigger guys. He got used to it in the
Logan exhibition, so at least there's that, and there is
a good bit of bad blood back and forth between
Floyd and Mike over the years. Uh, there's been some
pretty choice words, more from Mike's.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Side than any other side.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
But he has absolutely on multiple occasions told Floyd off
and uh, well here's one of them.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
He said that he's better than Muhammad Ali. Yep, I'm
better than Mhamad Ali.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
We're gonna think about Floyd talking about he's very delusion though,
if he, if he was anywhere in there, that that
realm Grandon Aley, he'd be able to take his chips
to school by himself. Okay, he can't take He can't
take his kids to school by himself. And he talking
about he's great. Greatness is not guarding a help from
the people. Greatness is being accepted by the people. He
(08:03):
can't take his kid alone to school by himself. He's
a little scared man. He's a very small scared man.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
This was about ten years ago now maybe more. And
look at that look in Mike's eyes. That might I mean,
even by the way, if Mike Tyson rolled.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Up on me right now, I'm still terrified. But that
was a Mike.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Tyson that had violence in his eyes, and it was
because of the way that Floyd talked about Mike's hero,
Muhammad Ali. Mike had always said, let every head bow,
let every tongue confess, Muhammad Ali is the greatest of
all time.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
He always always.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Put Ali on that pedestal. So when Floyd was talking
crazy about Ali, it got to Mike.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
If you could have fought any fighter, any era, who
would you have picked that you would have liked to
fight the most? Floyd Mayweather? I love it. Why huh
do you want to knock him out? Why I would
have loved him before?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
And I wish you with my weight?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
All right, interesting answer. There you have it. Mike definitely
not like Floyd, and I.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Think it's mostly because the way Floyd called himself the
greatest and maybe his style of fighting a bit of
his arrogance. But again, Mike was arrogant. Mike said some
crazy shit back in his day and did some crazy shit.
So Mike just feels like Floyd is disrespected Ali by
calling himself the greatest.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
But let's see.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
There's also a press release here from Fight Sports, the
company that's supposedly putting this thing on set to me
in a once in a lifetime matchup of living levin.
How many time are we gonna hear once in a
lifetime matchup? I swear we've heard it for so many
different fights. I mean it is true that this would
never happen in any other lifetime. We're living in a
simulations and this is only gonna happen between these two onns.
(09:38):
But good lord, find a different tagline, a Global Spectacle
insert GFx? All right, man, They didn't put any GFx
in their own press release. That's an instruction in their
press release to insert some sort of video graphics.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
They can't even get the press release, right man.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Okay, so let's read some of the stuff from the
actual promoters. Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather are two of
the most compelling names and personalities with lasting legacies in
all of sports.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Tyson versus Mayweather will break every broadcast, streaming and economic
record set by Mike Tyson in twenty twenty four. Okay,
Mike Tyson and Jake Paul That right there is a
big statement that they're going to break every broadcast, streaming
and economic records. So that would mean they're gonna have
to put it behind a Netflix esque streaming service, I
would assume because you're not breaking one hundred and fifty
(10:29):
million or whatever they did behind a pay per view wall.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
You can't.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
There's no shot, all right. So so with that being said,
what are my thoughts on this? As much as I've
been a part of the ecosystem of the Jake Paul
versus Mike Tyson, the Floyd Mayweather versus Logan Paul exhibition
style fights, I know Jake versus Mike was a pro fight,
but you get what I'm saying. And now with Jake
and Jervonte Davis, Now this one's a little different because
Mike and Floyd are both retired. But I'm starting to
see boxers like Jervonte Davis, who is a sitting world champion,
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We're going championship level fights in his own weight division
to fight money fight while still holding his belt. It
does start to blur the lines between competitive boxing, real
boxing per se and these exhibition money making bouts. Because,
make no mistake, what I think is going to happen
in this fight is very similar to what I think
happened in the Jake and Mike fight and the Floyd
(11:18):
and Logan fight.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
A whole lot of nothing. You know what.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I'll stratch that Logan versus Floyd was actually somewhat entertaining
because Logan went for it and in moments actually hit
Floyd with some stuff and Floyd had.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
To use his experience to overcome that. I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Mike has the physical capability to quote unquote go for
He might have one or two bursts in the system,
like his body just can't handle this anymore. And again
I said this before the Jake fight, but it's even
more evident after the fact. You have no delusions of
grandeur here. You have no aura or mistique about what
Mike still has left. We saw it, We saw eight
(11:51):
rounds of it.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
It was pitiful.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
When we talk about ruining legacies, and I don't think
that anything Mike could do in a ring right now
would do that for me, because I can choose to
look back at the greatness Mike was and accept what
this is for what this is, a different venture, a
different avenue of his life, something completely separate from the
highest level he was. But I do worry about this
(12:15):
current generation of brand new boxing fans, and there is
a lot of them thanks to the revolution of boxing.
The Jake Paul's the Turkey Ella Shakes, the Ring Magazine,
the the Zones, the Eddie Hearns, the Tyson Furies, the
Anthony Joshuas the Alexander Ussiks. This generation of boxing it
didn't get to see Mike in his prime, is gonna
look at this exhibition and go, that's the guy that
(12:36):
everybody feared. That Mike Tyson guy. He's old, slow and
can't punch. He looks broken and beaten down. They're gonna
look at him with pity because they've already seen it.
They saw it in the Jake fight. I told you
it was coming in the Jake Fight, and still you
had to see it for yourself. It's like teaching a
kid not to put their hand on a hot stove.
You can tell them all you want. I can tell
you this is not gonna look good. I can tell
(12:58):
you that it's going to be very to watch Mike
go again. I can tell you that Mike shouldn't be
doing it. And I say Mike, Mike, Mike. Because I've
seen Floyd still be able to hold his own at
forty eight. I don't really worry too much about Floyd here.
Because Mike can't punch. There's nothing left in that tank.
But again, just like that kid, he has to touch
the stove to know it's hot, even though you've told him.
I told you, guys before the Jake fight, and I'm
telling you again, this is gonna look bad. I'm gonna
(13:20):
watch it, but grudgingly, but I'm gonna it's a damn shame.
I will say that we have ended up in this place.
But at the same time, I just what do you
do if there's money out there, and both Mike and
Floyd are two consenting adults that want to go in
there and do it. I can't really say anything. I
hope both guys get paid. I hope Mike gets whatever
money he needs. But I wish he wouldn't have to fight,
(13:42):
or I wish there was another way for him to
make that money, or I wish he had enough money
to not do this. Because there's gonna be a section
of the audience. Maybe it's bigger than I believe that
look at this thing and go, Damn, that used to
be Mike Tyson, Damn that used to be Floyd Maywell.
Now it's just two old men moving around in a
ring and expecting us to believe they're fighting. The red
nose on us all I guess and call it what
it is. Welcome to the circus, folks. Mike Tyson will
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be fighting Floyd Mayweather, and as far as what happens
during the fight, I'm gonna tell you I think I
do have the answers this time. No one's gonna get hurt,
and I really don't want to see anyone get hurt.
And it's gonna look like two older men that are
not around the same way, looking like ghosts and shadows
of their former selves in an attempt to remain what
they were to some degree and make some money. Ladies
and gentlemen, this exhibition is gonna look. Prepare yourselves for
(14:26):
it because it's gonna be a major letdown. What happens
next for Floyd and Mike? Does this fight actually even happen?
Or have those answers?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
So I guess we'll find out
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