Definitely not, it was a lose/lose proposition from the jump. Nearly everybody watching wanted Tyson to fuck Paul up. Tyson wins? Paul lost to an old man. Paul wins? He beat up an old man. And in either outcome, the crowd isn’t with him.
But even besides all that, as you say, it was a one-off exhibition match, and the main draw was Tyson coming out of retirement. Plus, at least in my mind, the fact that he took 8 rounds to barely beat an old, injured man by decision, makes me wonder if those other 10 wins were tomato cans.
Definitely not, it was a lose/lose proposition from the jump. Nearly everybody watching wanted Tyson to fuck Paul up. Tyson wins? Paul lost to an old man. Paul wins? He beat up an old man. And in either outcome, the crowd isn’t with him.
But even besides all that, as you say, it was a one-off exhibition match, and the main draw was Tyson coming out of retirement. Plus, at least in my mind, the fact that he took 8 rounds to barely beat an old, injured man by decision, makes me wonder if those other 10 wins were tomato cans.