ARLINGTON, Texas — When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
That Maya Angelou adage applies perfectly to the predictably farcical “fight” millions worldwide witnessed from AT&T Stadium on Friday night. We got from this ill-conceived, circus-like clash of generations generally what we should’ve expected.
To call Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson a glorified sparring session is insulting to those who actually take sparring seriously. This was more a shrewd, 27-year-old businessman in the heart of his physical prime acknowledging almost immediately that an opponent approaching 60 had no business being in a boxing ring with him.