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Well again, Tyson had just been concussed 4 days prior to the fight. Also, those training highlights? Most of that really good shit was filmed pre-ulcer, pre-blood transfusions, pre-weight loss, and pre-concussion. You don’t see much after all that because honestly it was cringeworthy to see.

Except he wasn’t. Bruno was the number 1 contender for the WBC and WBA titles. The number 1 contender for the IBF? Yep, you guessed it: Carl Williams. Holyfield only became the number one contender after (and because) Tyson got rid of them. It’s not like Holyfield instantly achieved that ranking when he moved up to the heavyweight division. It took some fights to earn that. But he was, nonetheless, going to get his shot at the title after the Tyson-Douglas fight. Holyfield was going to fight the champion regardless of who won in Tokyo and that’s kind of my point. If the Tyson-Douglas fight had any other referee counting Douglas when Tyson put him down and not taking 14 seconds to get to “9,” Tyson-Holyfield happens in 1990/1 and not 1996. This is just historic revisionism. 1. Again, Witherspoon was not in his prime during those years. He was (or was nearing, depending on the year) 30, he was an admitted mental basket case at that time, and his in-ring vulnerabilities were very visible. 2. In perfect abstraction, there’s no reason whatsoever to believe Mike would have had a minute’s worth of trouble against him. 3. You’ve got to be kidding me with that line about Smith. James Smith had already smashed Witherspoon to take that WBA belt off of him via 3-KD’ing him in the first round, which is why Tyson fought Smith in the first place: because he was the WBA champion. 4. That’s to say nothing about the fact that this was all a part of what Don King himself literally orchestrated; the so-called Heavyweight World Series, which was specifically designed to culminate with an undisputed champion. So as of December 1986, there’s Witherspoon with no belt, Smith with a belt, and Tyson with a belt. Any fool could see who Mike Tyson was going to fight after he bitchslapped Trevor Berbick, and it sure as shit wasn’t gonna be the guy who couldn’t survive James Smith for as long as Berbick “survived” Tyson. This was an elimination series, and Witherspoon was eliminated by Smith. Had Witherspoon won the Smith fight, he faces Tyson next. And even if this wasn’t some part of a Don King extravaganza, there still would be no intelligent way to argue that Tyson was “ducking” anyone by trying to take another belt off someone else. What or who was anyone to say about it? Tyson then went against Pinklon Thomas because Thomas was the number 1 contender for the WBC belt and the number 3 for the WBA, and also because Tony Tucker was to fight Buster Douglas for the vacant IBF title (vacant because Michael Spinks refused to fight Tucker and instead took the bigger payday of fighting Cooney)…on the same card, which effectively rendered that night to be a semifinal round on both sides of the ad hoc bracket with the two winners facing each other next. And again, as any fool could see, Mike’s most sensible next step was taking the IBF belt off Tony Tucker even if this wasn’t a part of a Don King extravaganza. 5. At that point (August of 1987), I would seriously encourage you to look at that roster of fucking bums Tim Witherspoon fought against. Again, he was nowhere near psychologically capable of handling a fight like Tyson in that period. When Tim had his resurgence nearly a decade later? Sure, there’s an argument to be made for that, especially given the shit shape Tyson was in. This was all post-Douglas, post-divorce, post-dipshit Don King idiotically firing Kevin Rooney, and post-prison. But 1987-1988? Man, kill that fuckin’ noise. Mike would have bulldozed him and it wouldn’t have meant dick to anyone for him to do it. There was no upside for Mike to take that fight, which is why he didn’t waste his time with it regardless of what Don King’s position on it was. And speaking of Tim Witherspoon and Don King, you’d do well to consider the possibility that the reason he didn’t book that fight in the aforementioned era was to protect Tim and not Mike. From a pure boxing standpoint, the only booking decision that could have been deemed “questionable” when Tyson was the undisputed champ was Larry Holmes, but that was a grudge match (at least in Tyson’s mind) that had little to do with him and everything to do with revenge for Muhammad Ali; concept that was actually a hobby of Tyson’s in his earlier years.

The Israel issue has always been a blind spot for him. He has always been a complete dumbass about it. What really broke him was the pandemic, and all this “woke left” stuff is really just a side effect of that. One of the guests he’s had over recent years is Bari Weiss and he just fawns over her. Bari Weiss is a stupid person’s idea of what a smart person is, and she’s an illiterate person’s idea of what a journalist is. On some other show, she couldn’t help herself in explaining that the reason the democrats lost big in the election was because all they could talk about was all this fringe social issue crap, especially the transgender issue. Harris never even mentioned those issues on the campaign trail. Yeah there was a media blitz by the far right intimating that, especially when it came to those disgraceful ads that Cruz was running about Allred and that one clip where Harris did make comments about it five fucking years ago, but that’s exactly who was talking about that shit: Republicans. Bari Weiss and her chickenshit ilk fell for it hook, line and sinker. So did those who still watch and take Bill Maher and people like him seriously. They couldn’t wait to clap really hard drooling over how smart they think these clowns are. They’re as clueless as Peggy Noonan was when she penned that ridiculous op-ed that said under the headline “America, after its long journey through the 2010s and ’20s, is becoming more conservative again.” It’s just more of the same self-serving bullshit from the elite “intellectual” class that comes up with these on-the-fly comments that they think are just loaded with intelligence…when all it really does is tell the story of how truly fucking stupid they are.

Well now you’re clearly not talking about 1986-1988 because Holyfield wasn’t a heavyweight by that time and Witherspoon was over 30 and his weaknesses were already exposed

He wants to fight him at 200 Even at 200, Canelo is a 6-pack can of worms compared to a 58-year old that just received a concussion 4 days prior. Jake claims Canelo will come calling him for a pay day. Not sure if that’s just a terrible promo or if Jake really believes his bullshit, but he’s not going to like now that negotiation turns out.

Wanted to wait until now to post this: If you’ve seen that 9-minute video of Tyson in training at my gym, there’s a reason he kept saying “I wanna box more.” He was concussed from having been knocked out by his sparring partner on Monday. His team had to pick him up off the canvas. And this was after he showed up 2 hours and 15 minutes late to the workout and had a verbal confrontation with both of his trainers and his brother-in-law about him not wanting to do any cardio. If Jake doesn’t carry him, this is going to be nightmarishly ugly.

Depends on what goes down. If it goes 5 rounds or more? Yeah. Likely a work, especially if Tyson ends up winning in that scenario. Over in the first two? Total shoot regardless of who wins.

Actually he won’t. That’s not his way, and his actual way is what’s going to get him over tonight. There’s a reason that when you watch those impressive-looking videos of Tyson working out, there’s a lot you don’t see. You do see a guy looking very good for a few seconds at a time, but it’s always against a trainer wearing a belt pad and mitts. You don’t see him doing cardio and you don’t see him sparring. There’s a reason for that. There’s also a reason that you see vids of his team going nuts over him executing the most mundane moves like slipping out of a corner. And I take no glee in saying that. I’m one of the biggest Mike Tyson fans there ever was. But I’m also a realist. For this fight to seem competitive will require an outrageous carrying effort by Jake. Otherwise this will end quickly. Could Tyson catch Jake with a hard, square right hand that puts him down? Yes. If there’s one weakness about Jake Paul that you can say that makes him vulnerable to Mike Tyson, it’s that he’s very sloppy and that sloppiness could potentially leave him open. But as others have said, I’m not seeing it and that’s Mike’s sole path to a win: a first/second round shot heard ‘round the world.

Me at the gym at Military and Buckner in Dallas. These dudes that rented it out on Monday

BUT THE COST OF EGGS AND BACON!!!

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna179837 Checks out. The Palestinians are finished; two-state settlement is dead, one-state “settlement” is dead. This is a one-state conquest that confirms the words of Moishe Dayan when he said “we have to be able to tell the Palestinians: we have no solution, you shall continue to live like dogs, and if you wish you may leave.” And that still will not stop people from vigorously applauding and saying “look at me, me am smart.”

Gotta keep the rest of the country barefoot, ignorant and stupid while the real masters of humanity reap all the benefits. Because, you know, rich people have been taking it in the shorts in America since 1980. The problem is that Macklemore, and far too many morons like him, thinks that he’s one of said masters. He thinks he’s someone who’s going to be benefiting from all that chickenshit Project 2025 horror novel. He has absolutely no idea that Project 2025 envisions people exactly like him as one of its victims and he so easily does it because he, once again, is one of those dipshit losers that worked themselves into believing that 1) politics is a team sport, 2) his team won, 3) therefore he “won.” He has no idea that he didn’t win shit. It reminds me of something pre-insanity Bill Maher said back in 2000. He said something about he was watching the NBA playoffs and noted that guys cared way too much about who wins. This is a paraphrase, but it went something like “I can’t stand guys who say “we won!” No, you didn’t “win” anything. Ten black guys who would hate you, if they knew you, won.”

They will get what they asked for, they will be absolutely indignant about the grisly consequences of their choices, and then they will find a way to blame the Democrats like the feculent intellectual beggars they’ve always been.

^ Great channel

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t it true that when Trump was in the WH for his first two years and the GOP held both the House and Senate, the number of immigration reform legislations they sent to his desk was not greater than zero?

Ha! That poor fool couldn’t whip cream with an outboard motor.

You should check out Port Aransas right around Access Road 1. It’s a fucking MAGA circle jerk

There’s that phrase again

And which ones

There is one and you already know it. I believe it’s referred to as a “conflict of interest.” So yeah they might pay lip service to the idea of helping the working class, but they’ve got corporate donors to think about too.

You’re not doing that either.

They’ve made slight gains and I think the problem is that the working class collectively believes it’s not coming fast enough. Look, there’s a lot of truth to the statement that there’s barely any difference between the R’s and the D’s. I’ve been saying that for 17 years. But two things: 1. There are small differences and small differences have a way of translating into large outcomes for the exact people you’re talking about. 2. The rare few times those small differences have shown up to the benefit of the working class has certainly been when the Democrats were the policymakers.

Nor are you.

You think you’re making good points

They’ve been trained to believe that politics is a team sport. What else do you think motivates them to vote against their interests? Chomsky had it straight many decades ago, and sadly, we haven’t done much as a whole to prove him wrong: ”When I'm driving, I sometimes turn on the radio and I find very often that what I'm listening to is a discussion of sports. These are telephone conversations. People call in and have long and intricate discussions, and it's plain that quite a high degree of thought and analysis is going into that. People know a tremendous amount. They know all sorts of complicated details and enter into far-reaching discussion about whether the coach made the right decision yesterday and so on. These are ordinary people, not professionals, who are applying their intelligence and analytic skills in these areas and accumulating quite a lot of knowledge and, for all I know, understanding. On the other hand, when I hear people talk about, say, international affairs or domestic problems, it's at a level of superficiality that's beyond belief.” And it’s certainly turning out its ugly head again today. We’ve got motherfuckers coming here to talk shit…but when the red flags about the economy were coming out in 2019 and when they horribly botched the response to one of the worst pandemics we’ve ever seen? Fucking crickets. They can’t defend his policies (to the extent they even know what they are, which is doubtful), but they love to talk shit about “cuck lib tears.” And they think “libruls” are the problem. No, motherfucker. The problem is dickheads like that who refuse to learn anything. If they have one talent in this world, it’s the complete inability to understand simple things and when called out for it, act all butthurt and indignant. One of the big problems the Democrats had last night was low turnout. Sadly, the wrong people turned out. But that’s how it always is. When Trump said that he could shoot people on Madison Avenue and his numbers wouldn’t go down, he wasn’t joking and he wasn’t wrong either. There’s a reliable contingent of people who will vote for a fucking convicted felon as long as they have the magic R next to their name on the screen. They have no moral compass, and they think the biggest problem is people like me saying that they have no moral compass. Them not having a moral compass is their issue, not mine. It’s like I tell my MAGAt cousin every time he spews out one of his baseless, chickenshit conspiracy theories without the slightest shred of evidence to support it: if you don’t give me a reason to believe you, I have no reason to believe you, and not having a reason to believe you is literally the best reason not to believe you.