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    Re the meme: We don’t have to thank Paul for anything; it was Anthony Joshua who delivered what has to be a very short happiness to a lot of people on the internet.

    I say it has to be very short, because we have to make it very short. Paul doesn’t care about getting beaten up, he cares about money. He monetises being disliked, because he’s untalented, uncreative, and lazy. For those reasons, we must starve him of attention.

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    I don’t know who that is or what’s going on, but I would probably have the same expression on my face if I was about to do that to Jake Paul

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    That smile!! That gorgeous smile!

    AJ just fucking played him. I’m sure of it. Did the whole yeah sure I’ll loose and then proceeds to beat the shit out of fuckface. Lawsuit incoming if true.

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      Paul can wipe away his tears in his pile of money. Estimates are putting it at 100 million from his bout with Joshua.

      Sowing his own hatred is how he makes his money. Best if we just forget about him.

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      Man, I’d have a massive smile too if I were about to nail Jake Paul to the wall.

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      Is that the real smile? I know he was smiling, but I’ve seen other versions where it’s not nearly this pronounced. Did someone tweak it?

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          He knew he was going to win for the entire fight, but the smile I think is when he knows this is the moment he’s going to clench it

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              Yep 6 rounds it was so and methodical. At the end Jake looked like he was having a near death experience and Anthony was honestly barely sweating. Honestly, barely sweating.

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                I read somewhere afterward that AJ broke Paul’s jaw in two places and he had to have emergency surgery immediately after the bout. Homeboy’s going to be eating Christmas dinner through a straw lol

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                Damn. I guess he could have dropped him in the first. But then the bets wouldn’t have come in?

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      I’m a gay woman, but that smile kinda does it for me. Bro looks elated that he gets to rock Jake’s shit so thoroughly

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    Can someone explain to me why this is such a big deal? I have gathered from context the guy who lost was an influencer that people dislike, but that’s really all I know. Is there more to it than that?

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      Not really. He’s a vocal racist douchebag who pretends to be an athlete to chase clout. He engaged in competition with an actual athlete and got immediately and embarrassingly wrecked.

      It’s like if Musk had actually fought Zuckerberg and immediately had his face caved in. I don’t care that the Zucc won, I just care that Elon got his cheeks clapped like a little bitch.

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        He engaged in competition with an actual athlete

        I haven’t been paying much attention, and didn’t even know this fight had happened until after the memes, so I might get some of this wrong. But, from what I gather, the influencer initially planned to fight a boxer who was significantly smaller and lighter, but there were legal issues with that fight. So, instead he arranged to fight Anthony Joshua. Joshua hadn’t fought in something like a year and a half. But, is an actual boxer who hasn’t fully retired.

        The way the fight went, the influencer kept running away until he was too tired to keep running, at which point, finally, the boxer was able to actually start landing punches, and eventually he broke the influencer’s jaw in 2 places.

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          Unfortunately Musk would probably have won.

          Lol, I want some of what you’re smoking. Muskrat wouldn’t stand a chance.

          Elmo may have height/weight on Zucc, but he’s actually been training instead of being out of his mind in ketamine or something.

          Like, just take a look at actual pictures of them. Zucc has a six pack and Melon has a keg and then some. Weight gives you a slight edge, but that edge is worthless if you’re out of shape and don’t know what you’re doing. I hate Zucc, but he’d fucc Muscc up, and even he knows it. That’s why Musky chickened out.

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              Without any circlejerking, Zuckerberg is actually a high level Jiu Jitsu competitor.

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                For interesting definitions of “high level”. But, whether or not he’s a “high level” competitor, he does actually compete, and he’s willing to lose against more skilled opponents. That’s far more than Musk would ever do.

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          If you think Elon has the coordination to wipe his ass without poking his finger through the tissue for a chocolate pinkie, then I have a bridge to sell you. That’s why he has professional ass-lickers around him 24/7.

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          But doesn’t Zuck actually work out and train with like some kind of martial art or something? And he’s younger? Probably has a healthier lifestyle. I’d still put my money on Zuck.

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      dude is a known toxic masculine Internet personality that is famous for, stupid mean pranks, womanizing, and being an all around piece of shit human.

      dude went into the Aokigahara forest in Japan to ridicule the corpses of people who committed suicide. (edit: this was his brother evidently, but it says a lot about the family doesn’t it?)

      if that doesn’t say what kind of a piece of shit he is, I don’t know what will.

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    I’m not fan of JP, buy kuddos for getting in the ring with AJ. I’ve seen a few fights, some good and some bad. Yet this one didn’t really look like a fight. More like how long JP would last for before being knocked out. This may be an unpopular opinion, but it’s not something I’d like to see again. I prefer a match of even weight and even skills. I’d like to see JP work his way up the ranks like normal boxers do, and see how he fares in a couple of years. If he then starts boxing the big boys, then he’ll learn the respect he deserves.

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      I keep seeing this take and I don’t really get it. Kudos to getting in the ring with someone and getting a massive ~50-100 million payout?

      Would you say kudos to me for doing the same? Because I’d get knocked tf out any day for that kind of money.

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        I completely agree. He was in the ring because he was earning tens of millions of dollars to do it.

        I could imagine giving him kudos if he’d been willing to stand toe-to-toe and actually engage in a boxing match with Joshua. It would probably mean that he’d have lost more quickly, but at least he would have been trying to win. Instead he spent almost all the time running away, and when he couldn’t run away anymore he’d drop to his knees and attempt to wrestle Joshua to the mat. In a competitive boxing match I think he would have been disqualified, or at least had a major points reduction by the end of the first round.

        Look, if I were offered tens of millions to engage in a real boxing match against a real boxer, I’d definitely take it, and my approach would be basically the same: run away and try to avoid taking damage. For tens of millions I think almost anybody would take the fight, and almost nobody would actually fight to win, if it risked being hit harder. But, the difference is that I wouldn’t be the one organizing the event. I wouldn’t be claiming I had a chance. I wouldn’t be trying to intimidate the actual boxer at the weigh ins.

        The influencer hyped up the fight like he had a chance, he posted training videos showing he was taking it seriously, he used a lot of steroids to try to get as big as possible. Then, as soon as he got into the ring, he did everything possible to avoid fighting aside from leaving the ring.

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        I get that, and I’m a middle aged women and I’d be tempted. Thing is the risk of serious harm, there’s no such thing as a death proof punch and there’s a chance of lifelong injuries. He’s got months of pain and drinking soup ahead of him and he may not be able to work as much when he loves the kudos it gets him. And that’s if it’s a straight forward heal that doesn’t cause him further issues… it’s a high risk venture and you only get one body

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          Death is extremely rare in boxing, serious injuries are also rare. The main issue with boxers is the lifetime of getting hit tends to add up, especially hits to the head.

          Jake Paul’s jaw injury is just about the worst thing you could expect to have happen in a single boxing match, as long as the referee was competent and didn’t allow a fighter with a concussion to keep fighting.

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            Yes you’re completely right, they are rare. They’re not impossible though and most boxing matches have roundabout equal skill. Jake is a twat who thinks he’s a big man but he’s not.

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              The influencer obviously has much less skill than the boxer. But, he has been getting the best training money can buy for several years, and he’s used a lot of steroids to get as big as possible. It’s not like you or me getting into the ring, it’s a decently talented amateur boxer going up against a pro. He was trained on how to defend himself, and had the experience to do it. I think he got as badly injured as he did mainly because he acted like a twat in two ways. First, he spent a lot of the match running away, which tired him out. Second, he spent a lot of it showboating and taunting Joshua, with his hands down.

              The punch that wrecked his jaw was a clean hit that happened both because the influencer was too tired to defend himself properly, and was acting like in idiot and not defending his head. Joshua was eventually going to win, regardless. But, the influencer probably would have been less damaged if he’d fought fairly and protected his head. Then he’d have been hit through his guard, which would have been enough to drop him, but not to wreck his jaw.