00:00Now, over the weekend, the inevitable happened, and we'll get to that in just a moment.
00:05We don't really need to talk about the fight, but I want to talk about how, when we talk
00:09about sports, how we have apparently completely lost the plot on why we watch sports and what's
00:15real about sports and what's special about sports, and also about bravery and toughness
00:22and everything else.
00:23So on Friday, and apparently each fighter, by the way, in this fight, Jake Paul versus
00:28Anthony Joshua, both fighters, both netted over $90 million for that fight, and that
00:35number matters.
00:36So keep that $90 million in your head and think about you as a regular person, everybody
00:40out there, because in this case, Jake Paul is just a regular person.
00:43He is not an elite athlete.
00:45He is not anything special.
00:46So just think in your head, everybody out there, I'm going to give you a moment to do this.
00:50All right, a little homework real fast.
00:52What would you be willing to do for $90 million?
00:56Not nine, not nine, $90 million, okay?
01:03$90 million for one night.
01:04What would you be willing to do?
01:06And what if I told you that whatever you have to do for that $90 million, you get months to
01:11train for it, and you can be as prepared as you can possibly be individually for that
01:18$90-plus million payday?
01:22Because I'm seeing this from the new bro factor that exists in sports.
01:26I'm seeing it from a bunch of pundits that now talk about with this Jake Paul thing that
01:30him getting into the ring with Anthony Joshua makes him somehow brave.
01:36I don't know a single human being in my life.
01:41I don't know a single one who would not gotten the ring with Anthony Joshua on Friday night
01:45for $90 million.
01:46I know I would, I know the staff all here would, I know all of you would, $90 million,
01:53okay?
01:54Now let's show what happened to him.
01:55So obviously we're not going to beat Anthony Joshua, none of us are.
01:59Look at his face there, broken jaw in two places, all right?
02:02He looks like a chipmunk's swollen face he's laid up.
02:05Yeah, he took a beating, but that beating in which any doctor says that this is, as far
02:11as him going back to, quote, fighting, it's a six-month recovery if he wants to fight again.
02:14But he'll be out in a hospital and be able to, even if they wire his jaw shut, he'll
02:19be fine in maybe three weeks.
02:21By Martin Luther King Day, this dude is back to living his regular life out in the streets
02:26with $90 additional million in it.
02:30So ask yourself, be honest now, would you be willing to take that beating for $90 million?
02:36And I know every single one of you out there is like me, saying yes.
02:40Of course you would take that kind of beating for $90 million.
02:46That's not brave.
02:47Would have been brave if you took that beating to save somebody.
02:50Or you fought it for free because you had to fight it to protect your home.
02:54Then you're brave.
02:55Having a fight against a pro boxer in which he did not try to win, I want to also put that
03:00in there.
03:00I know that Ethan, the producer, and all the sports grip people, and me, and Craig, and
03:05everybody else, you know what we would do that Jake Paul didn't do?
03:08We tried to win the fight.
03:10He didn't even try to win the fight.
03:13He dove at the man's legs a hundred times.
03:15He did all this stuff.
03:17Try to win.
03:17You're going to get knocked out either way.
03:20It's better to try to win if you're going to get knocked out either way because you get
03:24the $90 million either way.
03:25You get the $90 million.
03:27So they go, oh, he lasted six rounds.
03:29He lasted six rounds because he ran around for six rounds.
03:33He didn't try to win.
03:34He spent more time on the ground.
03:37It appeared he was trying to do something inappropriate that we can't talk about on the
03:39show to the man in front of all these people for $90 million, the way he was on his knees
03:43like that.
03:44It was gross.
03:46You cannot put yourself in that spot to do that over and over and over again.
03:51And it was for $90 million.
03:53Now, if you look at this, he ended up getting his jaw broken in two places.
03:57All right?
03:58Yes.
03:59That's serious.
04:00And yes, he took a beating.
04:01And yes, he stayed down after getting the jaw broken in the second spot.
04:05So great.
04:06But are we really at a point where we're going to give credit to a guy for $90 million for
04:13taking a beating that he was ultimately going to take anyway?
04:16We're going to give credit to a guy for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million for $90 million
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