Wasn’t invited to the big fight.

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Back when I was working for a living I had a friend where I worked and I loved to talk to him because he was so entertaining.
He told me one day that he had invited a bunch of guys over to his house to watch the big title fight on Pay-Per-View.
I was kind of disappointed that I wasn’t invited but understood that things were different where he lived and because of his culture.
Anyway he came back in on Monday and he told me that some of the guys who paid $25 to watch the fight were upset and wanted their money back because Mike Tyson knocked the other dude out in less than a minute.
Guess they didn’t figure a 35 second fight was worth $25.
I don’t know if a beer and chip dip were included in the $25 fight.
 

Oddly, I can see two sides to the situation. I can understand the feeling of being gypped when the fight is over that fast. On the other hand, they made a deal to watch the fight, and they got to see the fight. As a judge, I would deny their claim. And in Tyson's early fights, you expected it to be over early in the first round, anyway. No, they don't get their money back.
 
Didn't that fight cost $50.00 pay per view? They were there to watch a fight, they got what they were there for. $25.00 was cheap for those that didn't want to host a fight pay per view fight.
 

I can't help think it was a mock complaint, just a funny way of underscoring what a powerhouse Tyson was. I could see myself saying, "I want my money back," without really meaning that at all.
 
Knight said:
Didn't that fight cost $50.00 pay per view? They were there to watch a fight, they got what they were there for. $25.00 was cheap for those that didn't want to host a fight pay per view fight.
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My thought, too... paid to see the fight, saw the fight. The end. Whining about the length of it is kind of juvenile. I can pay $60 for a fancy restaurant's steak dinner and it's eaten/gone in 30 minutes... I knew it would be like that before ordering, so complaining would be silly.
 
JustDave said:
I can't help think it was a mock complaint, just a funny way of underscoring what a powerhouse Tyson was. I could see myself saying, "I want my money back," without really meaning that at all.
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I never saw him fight, but I heard about him. He bit Holyfield's ear. I was so worried for Jake Paul. Well. Jutta, a Dutch ice skater, said that he's such a sweet boy. That's why I was worried lol.
 
JustDave said:
I can't help think it was a mock complaint, just a funny way of underscoring what a powerhouse Tyson was. I could see myself saying, "I want my money back," without really meaning that at all.
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Although my friend Andy was quite a character I tend to believe him about some of the guys getting upset that they paid $25 for a 30 second fight.
The thing is though that Andy paid the pay-for-view fee so that he could host it at his own house and win or lose they got to watch the fight.
They would have had to paid to see the fight about anywhere.
Andy was still a young man when he passed away and I never heard what he died of.
I told another black guy how much I missed talking to Andy and George and that guy said “oh those guys were just Uncle Toms always sucking up to whites.”
It made me angry for that guy to say that but after that I wondered if it causes black guys problems to be friends with guys like me.
Seems like people like to call you racist but then it bothers them if you’re not.
If that ain’t sad I don’t know what is.
 
Dr.Colosso said:
I never saw him fight, but I heard about him. He bit Holyfield's ear. I was so worried for Jake Paul. Well. Jutta, a Dutch ice skater, said that he's such a sweet boy. That's why I was worried lol.
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Tyson started his career as a house of fire, probably fighting lesser boxers, I think. Buy the time he got to Holyfield he was coming up against tougher opponents. I've often wondered if he bit Holyfield while in a panicky realization that he wasn't as invincible as he thought, and he just lost it.

I started tracking him early, and I was very much interested in boxing at the time, but when Tyson started acting like a jerk, I actually lost my interest in boxing altogether, and I can't explain why one guy would have that big of an effect on me.
 
JustDave said:
Tyson started his career as a house of fire, probably fighting lesser boxers, I think. Buy the time he got to Holyfield he was coming up against tougher opponents. I've often wondered if he bit Holyfield while in a panicky realization that he wasn't as invincible as he thought, and he just lost it.

I started tracking him early, and I was very much interested in boxing at the time, but when Tyson started acting like a jerk, I actually lost my interest in boxing altogether, and I can't explain why one guy would have that big of an effect on me.
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Now he's friendly.

 

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