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How Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. Fought to a Draw (in 2020)

There will be — there already has been — much rending of garments in the boxing world about whether a card headlined by two men in their 50s and a former N.B.A. player fighting a YouTube star is good or bad for the sport. And if you are a hard-core boxing fan, that probably seems like an important debate.

But for everybody else, this fight card was … fun? There were some real fights, and some less real fights. Nate Robinson got knocked out badly, and Jake Paul said he wanted to take on Conor McGregor, causing his interviewer, Jim Gray, to noticeably laugh.