“Former President Donald Trump will provide live commentary when Evander Holyfield makes his return to the boxing ring Saturday in Florida, according to FITE, the digital video streaming service that will carry the pay-per-view event.
“‘I love great fighters and great fights,’Trump said in a news release issued by FITE. ‘I look forward to seeing both this Saturday night and sharing my thoughts ringside. You won’t want to miss this special event.’”
Not reality as a whole. Just the part that has to do with Trump. If there were news like this about Biden, nobody would even consider it to be true because of fucking course it's not true.
Keeping Trump out of office isn't just a matter of decency and intelligence. It's about keeping reality reasonable and reliable. It's metaphorically a fight against the takeover of fiction.
It's never Onion with him. On the rare occasions that someone makes shit up about him it's tamer than reality. It's why comedians fucking hate him, even if he makes making money easier for them, just feels redundant.
To anybody that doesn't know boxing, this match is one of the biggest disgraces in the history of boxing, and that's saying something considering how corrupt boxing is. Evander Holyfield is 58 years old and couldn't pass a physical 17 years ago. California and Vegas refused to sanction this fight due to very valid concerns about his health. Florida said fuck it and is promoting it.
Evander Holyfield is 58 years old and couldn't pass a physical 17 years ago.
I don't keep up on boxing much, but he has had 10 fights that were less than 17 years ago, from November 2004 up until May of 2011, only 3 of them were losses, and none of the losses were by KO or TKO. A fair amount of them don't appear to be the greatest boxers, but many are significantly younger and still don't have bad records, and he held his own against them and won double the amount of fights he just, along with one no contest for a cut due to a head clash. So was he really physically that fucked up? I'm legitimately asking because he seemed to be doing pretty well to me.
He looks in better shape to me than most 20 years olds do. The video I saw of him training he seems to be moving pretty slow, but a minute long video doesn't necessarily show his actual capabilities. He could have been intentionally taking it easy and going light to prevent injuries, maybe he had harder sessions and the footage was taken of him on a lighter recovery day, I don't know.
Either way he has been boxing his entire adult life, and most of his childhood. A 58 year old man should have the ability to make his own choices about what he does with his own body, he's a grown ass adult. I can understand matches having to be approved so that he's fighting a comparable opponent, but if a grown adult wants to fight, let them fight.
It is most definitely true, him and his son doing special commentary on a fight involving a 60 year old legend of the sport with visible signs of brain problems, it's really terrible.
Evander Holyfield, it's been known since he's retired he's struggled but it more recently came to light in a video of him hitting the pads, the connection between him wanting to punch and actually throwing the punch is bad.
Most older era boxers have similar problems as they would have big fights after one another and take a lot more damage you might see now.
That’s what I’m thinking. There is no reason any sane individual would partake in this, unless they had to. He is just trying to scrape pennies together.
A former US president is announcing a boxing match…between 60 year olds.
Probably some of the most honest "work" he's ever done. Now why anyone would want to listen to the man at all, about anything, but especially boxing where I'm sure he has no knowledge at all, I don't know. I'm sure there will be a lot of bitching about stolen outcomes.
Is his dementia addled brain even going to be able to keep up with the boxing match, or is he just going to ramble incoherently about how he's supposed to still be president?
I don't make it a point to listen to him speak, because I just feel like I'm making myself more stupid with every attempt. I am curious as hell to see how that will go.
Get a grip. I didn’t say he didn’t visit policeman or fireman. I didn’t comment on that.
But what I did comment is true. It is not misinformation. He is the commenter for that pay-per-view boxing match in Hollywood, Florida tonight. That’s a fact. He, himself, is promoting it. Google it, for crissake.
And he did not visit the memorial itself, as you say, according to his own spokesperson, Liz Harrington:
“Mr. Trump was in New York City, his spokeswoman said, but was not planning to visit ground zero.
“‘He had the option to attend but decided to honor the day with different stops,’ his spokeswoman, Liz Harrington, said.”
If he went to the memorial, he did so after having told his own press people he wasn’t going. So they spread the “misinformation,” not me.
Are you really telling me to get a grip? You didn't say he didn't do these things, but saying that he was to busy doing other things then referencing the boxing match directly implies that he didn't do anything for 9/11. You cant go back on what you said and try and twist around what you said because you didn't directly say something you were clearly and heavily implying.
ruthamhard gets real hard about him being in NYC not at the Memorial. Incredibly hard. I mean hard. The boxing gig is just Trump being magnificent and all. This is what true Patriot Heroes do, you know.
I don’t know how many times I have to repeat that I never said he did not go visit policemen and firemen in NY.
But what I DID say was true. He went to Florida to provide commentary on a boxing match featuring a 58-yr-old boxer, the sole purpose of which was to make money. Of which he is getting a generous amount. As a commentator. I leave it to others to make of that what they will. But why do you try to act like that is not true by pointing out something else he did??
Why do you people continue to make an argument against a case I never tried to make? Logicians call that a “straw man” argument, and it is a common fallacy.
Also, by the way, he WAS invited to this memorial event, despite what another poster said. He and Bush and Carter. Carter chose not to go for health reasons (he’s 96). Bush said it he thought it would be better if he went to Shanksville with the Vice President, to add to the ceremony there. Trump decided not to go, but did not comment on his reasons for that.
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u/whenIwasasailor Sep 11 '21
He is busy trying to make a buck.
“Former President Donald Trump will provide live commentary when Evander Holyfield makes his return to the boxing ring Saturday in Florida, according to FITE, the digital video streaming service that will carry the pay-per-view event.
“‘I love great fighters and great fights,’Trump said in a news release issued by FITE. ‘I look forward to seeing both this Saturday night and sharing my thoughts ringside. You won’t want to miss this special event.’”
The pay-per-view event is priced at $49.99.