Recently, we learned that 43-year-old Floyd Mayweather Jr., arguably the greatest boxer in the over 140-year modern history of the sport, will be facing Logan Paul in a pay-per-view exhibition. Paul is a YouTube celebrity with a legion of prepubescent fans and an 0-1 professional boxing record, and is best known for filming a corpse in a Japanese forest.
The announcement shouldn't be surprising, coming on the heels of the insane success of the recent exhibition between Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. That bout between two men eligible for AARP, with a provision calling for larger gloves so that they wouldn’t hurt each other too badly, sold a phenomenal 1.