Comment on Jake Paul's wiki page described him as a professional boxer instead of exhibitionist.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I know it’s annoying but I do know he has a professional boxing license in some states and has a offical ranking number in a couple global boxing associations. He has not faced anyone ranked in the top 1000 but sadly Jake did go through the proper channels to be legitimately called a professional boxer. (In most countries they don’t let just anyone get punched in the head professionally for sport.) Let’s just hope the fight with AJ actually happens and AJ actually fights for real. If that’s the case AJ will end Jakes boxing career in the first round. Jakes never been punched by a top fighter for real. If AJ has any respect for the sport he’ll have Jake questioning his life choices after the first exchange.
Babalugats@feddit.uk 1 week ago
As the sub states - It is just mildly infuriating. But to reply to that - I don’t want to get into a discussion about this, so I probably will just leave it here.
The States that governing bodies oversaw his fights are far more lenient than other places, CSAC, TDLR (Tyson fight his licence was expired and renewed in record time), OSAC and FSBC. Had he not the money and followers, most, or not one of his ‘fights’ would ever have gone ahead.
Other than the people whose jobs require it, I have never spoken to or heard a person that was involved in or heavily fanatical about boxing dare refer to him as a boxer. It is only the clueless ‘casual’ fans, his youtube followers, the marketers and the people that work for them. JFH exhibition bouts were called exactly that, and are not to be confused with his professional career. Jake Paul has only ever had exhibition fights afaik. There is so much more to look at and talk about, but money talks. I just feel extremely sorry for all of the pro boxers that will never get a fair ranking despite being able to (without question) run rings around him without having to train too hard for the fight.
He is a professional exhibitionist or a professional exhibition fighter at best.
I couldn’t name one other single person who has fought most of their professional career against basketballers, UFC, retirees and other non professional boxers that are allowed to call themselves ‘professional boxers’. It brings the already struggling sport into further disrepute. The fixing has now gone mainstream. The Netflix goons talking about the good it’s doing for boxing when it is doing the opposite…
Okay, okay… I am starting to get a little more into this ‘mildly infuriating’ topic than planned. I will leave it there, with plenty more that could be said.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I agree with everything you said. I’m a hardcore boxing fan. But I’ll be honest. I never got into boxing until butterbean was on jackass. So dumb. (Eric is more of a boxer than Jake could ever hope to be.) I’m just saying. Boxing has always had its clowns that bring attention to the sport while dishonoring the sport at the same time. And I don’t like how corrupt boxing is, but also I think global boxing is the strongest is ever been on the political/organizational side since I’ve been a fan. I felt like we rearly got to see belt holders fight each other but recently I’m happy with the most belt holders and challengers rates of fighting. I wish Crawford fought over 1.5 times a year during his career tho.