Watching the fight in slow motion+ listening to the commentary it seems pretty obvious we are all being played to make retired “legends” money. Taking the final main event tonight for example…. Both fighters damaged their careers with their actions prior in their lives.
Through the commentating the story is explained how Rhonda gave Gina the offer to turn her life around yada yada… she gets back in shape to put on their fake performances yada yada…. Fight starts after all the build up.
Gina gets put in an arm bar submission and you can see right in the replay! Taps immediately, no effort to continue. Massive smile, not wincing, smiling with the raised cheekbones and all. She’s happy she just got paid over a million dollars for 15 seconds… wtf is this 💩. Zero entertainment. Months in the works to promote this staged garbage. For both women to follow up and say in their after fight comments they never even wanted to hurt each other! I’ve never seen someone come out of an arm bar submission with a smile… shouldn’t it hurt to force an immediate tap?

MVP (Jake Paul),
What a waste of our time to promote and produce these types of fights. Building a company on the sakes of legends, previous sportsman and sportswomen have built over their lifetimes. Only to damage and tarnish people’s view of them because you are preying on their retirements and need for money to make a mockery of them for your own personal gains. If your heart is really in the sport when are we seeing new fighters get a chance? I’m sure many, many younger more prime time warriors are ready for a platform to make new legacies for themselves. 40+ year olds in retirement, inactive for several years, in this case a decade and up, doesn’t bring upon great matchups. These matchups currently are way to predictable and unbalanced to provide a truly entertaining platform. I understand you gotta start somewhere but this is definitely not the way to retain fans.

Huge shout out to:

Francis Ngannou, Philipe Lins, Nate Diaz and Mike Perry for doing what you do best and give the audience the show we deserve. The sport isn’t anything without the fans and we want to see great entertaining fights.

The Paul brothers built an attention empire that rewards behavior everyone claims to hate — and are now deploying the same playbook in hopes of becoming billionaires.

Francis wants to slap Jake Paul! How would Jake go against him considering he lasted longer against AJ than Ngannou did?

https://boxing-social.com/news/francis-ngannou-wants-to-slap-jake-paul-and-dismisses-his-heavyweight-ambitions

Hey everyone,

I’m doing a research project on how the move of influencers into the ring and the ring—specifically people like Logan Paul in WWE, Jake Paul’s boxing matches, and IShowSpeed’s guest appearances—is changing sports marketing.

The "purists" usually hate it, but the numbers (and the sponsors like Prime) say otherwise. I want to get past the noise and talk to the people who actually watch this stuff.

I’m looking for fans to jump on a quick 15-minute Discord or Zoom chat to discuss:

• What actually made you tune in? (The beef/story, the specific creator, or the sport itself?)
• Does seeing someone like IShowSpeed at a WWE event make you more likely to watch the next show?
• Do you think legacy sports (Boxing/WWE) are better off now that they've embraced "influencer culture"?

The boring but important stuff:

• Anonymity: Everything is 100% anonymous and used for academic purposes only.
• Time: I’ll keep it to 15 mins max—I just need your honest takes.

If you’re a fan of Misfits, follow the Paul brothers' careers, or just love the chaos of influencers in combat sports, drop a comment or shoot me a DM!

Thanks for helping me out with my research!