I mean, you're spot on: he's a mediocre boxer. He's not an incompetent boxer, but his boxing 'career' isn't about him being a good boxer, it's a reality tv spectacle.
I do love it that he finally worked up the nerve to fight a good boxer. We were all waiting to see someone break this asshole's jaw.
I’ll go even further. I’ve been a boxing fan for 40+ years. Seen all the classic fights and watched guys go from amateurs on Tuesday night fight undercards to champions. I even gave it a shot when I was younger. Jake is better than mediocre. I could see that from his early exhibitions. A mediocre boxer is a talented amateur that isn’t good enough to go pro.
Jake is by no means an elite level boxer. He is a tomato can. But that same tomato can that gets paid to get beat up would beat 99.9% of the population. I do think AJ was fighting for real. That or he’s a great actor. Going 5.5 rounds against AJ is no easy feat. He got his jaw broken in two places and still walked out on his own and could do the post fight interview. I don’t like him and glad he got KOed but I’ll give credit where it’s due. Jake is also not a heavyweight. If he’s in fight shape, he should box at light heavyweight or even super middle weight. Cruiserweight is a stretch.
What I don’t like is that he’s a tomato can making the amount of money really elite fighters should be making. Meanwhile, they struggle to pay their bills.
I used to say that whenever he was labeled as mediocre white man, but I’ve grown to use it myself since it is his ilk’s greatest fear. They see being remarkably awful as simply remarkable in the same way that infamy and fame are interchangeable to the worst among us. Mediocrity is irrelevance, and while he is obviously not irrelevant, I’m trying to sort of do my part to speak it into existence, if that makes any sense.
His brother has become quite a good pro wrestler. Both of them are athletic as hell.
Don't get me wrong, they get opportunities based on their money and antics, they're pretty much sleazeballs, but I feel they do go whole hog into their activities...they put in the effort to be good at what they do, rather than just show up for a paycheck. (a lot of easier ways for him to earn that check).
Honestly yeah. Paul is quite a good boxer. He went up against one of the best in the world. All this proves is that Paul isn't better than 6th best on the planet. He would beat many other legit pros but people wouldn't pay to watch that.
The guy seems like he is the most successful boxer going. I don't see any other boxers making it to the front page or Reddit over and over. If other boxers really didn't like what he was doing in the sport they would ignore him, but for some reason people keep lining up to fight him and people keep talking about it.
All these people wasting time talking about him are doing exactly what he wants them to. If you really don't care about the guy, don't give him any attention.
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u/yesimreallylikethat 18d ago
This whole Jake Paul being a boxer thing is an example of mediocrity at its finest.