Mike Tyson v Jake Paul: The shame of all involved in presiding over or taking part in such a freak show should endure
Former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, now 57 will take on Jake Paul in an eight-round exhibition bout in Texas. Photographs: Francois Nel/Christian Petersen/Getty Images
Since the joke shop bout was first announced, footage has been popping up on social media showing a dynamic Tyson, supposedly in serious training, conveying the impression he remains a fearsome, violent prospect at 57 and this will somehow be a legitimate contest.
Little wonder Netflix chose to partner with Paul on this forthcoming grotesquerie at AT&T Stadium on July 20th. Undeniably, depressingly box office, win, lose or embarrass himself, he will bring eyeballs to screens and subscribers to the service. The show is the show is the show. The organising principle of modern online celebrity. A population whose average attention span has shrunk to a mere eight seconds must be constantly entertained by the next new thing, then fleeced for it. Fast. Furious. Transactional. Never mind the flimflam, feel the grift. The quest for just-add-water instant gratification is ongoing and lucrative.
Over the next couple of months, Canelo Alvarez, Vasiliy Lomachenko, Tyson Fury and Gervonta Davis, among the very best of this fistic generation, each have decent fights coming up. None of their bouts will garner anything like the viewers or attention afforded Tyson-Paul, a showdown that is the culmination of society’s inevitable descent into reality show, a dystopia prizing ersatz versions of sporting contests over actual ones.
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