Jake Paul's wiki page described him as a professional boxer instead of exhibitionist.

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• blah3166@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  how can we fix that?

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  • compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s Wikipedia, anyone can edit it to revert the change

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    • 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Anyone can edit Wikipedia is a false belief. There are moderators who monitor popular posts from being edited. These moderators are usually from PR management companies who spend a lot of time editing pages to appear legit and also sell their services for a fee.

      So, NO, anyone cannot edit it or even add factual data without the approval of a “moderator” who may be awfully biased at not letting bad comments about their clients publicized.

      The founder himself is not hiding his bias. It’s always been used as political and commercial PR by politicians and companies but with a cover of being an “Encyclopedia”. Just like how many NGOs are fronts for government intelligence agencies.

      If you want to prove me wrong, go ahead and give it a try and let’s see how long that “edit” lasts.

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• NatakuNox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Babalugats@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • NatakuNox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  1: why?

  2: how can we fix this?

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  • Babalugats@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    1. I guess a wikipedia volunteer decided to classify him as that, and maybe another agreed.

    2. No idea. I guess it would entail trying to prove that he setup, paid and that the fights were mostly scripted.

    He has only has 13 fights, hopefully the Joshua fight will finally show him up. ‘win’ or lose.

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    • rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      trying to prove that he setup, paid and that the fights were mostly scripted

      There’s nothing scripted about the fights. He just only fights people he knows he can handily beat because of his size and youth. I don’t like Paul, but the whole “the fights are fixed” narrative is silly (and entirely devoid of evidence). He’s a hack who only fights people who are ancient, retired, or not even fighters to begin with like basketball player Nate Robinson. He doesn’t have to fix these fights; they’re just that overwhelmingly booked in his favor.

      Also, this entire topic gives him exactly what he wants: attention for his rage-baiting clout-chasing career.

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• MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s the only non made up thing he ever attempted lol

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• ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I seriously dislike this guy and I have no idea why he has not been canceled. If I remember correctly, he recorded a person who took his own life in Japan’s known forest. His buddies and he giggled. No respect for the dead.

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  • Babalugats@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Never knew that, but I’m guessing he profits from his unlikeable traits, just from what I’ve seen online about him and how he markets himself.

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    • ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m sorry, I have to correct my own mistake. It was “Logan Paul” who did that. They (Jake and Logan Paul are brothers and I mixed them up). But yea, you are right though.

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  • AlphaOmega@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah this was his brother that allowed his dog to be eaten by coyotes so he could make a video about him killing the coyote.

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  • Ragallos@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I am today years old when I found out these were separate assholes. Not just a singular asshole!

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  • P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If I remember right, that was his brother.

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