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IT COULD finally be over. The Jake Paul… experiment? Farce? Circus? Roleplay? Whatever you want to call it, the YouTuber’s chokehold on a surprisingly large portion of the boxing world looks to have loosened. And it went out with a bit of a whimper more than anything.
His fight with Tommy Fury was staged in Saudi Arabia and aired on BT Sport Box Office and it had all the trappings of a meaningful event, but those elements – bright lights, celebrities like Cristiano Ronaldo and Mike Tyson at ringside, Michael Buffer on MC duties, etc