The Takedown | Floyd Mayweather, Tyron Woodley recast as heroes as fight fans pray they can shut Jake and Logan Paul up
- Fight fans find themselves in the oddest of camps, rooting for a universally -disliked boxer and a blase former UFC champ who never connected
- Now Mayweather and Woodley can don capes for one night if they can knock out Logan and Jake respectively
It’s a sentence most fight fans thought they would never utter in their life.
“I’m rooting for a Floyd Mayweather knockout.”
This weekend, the absurdist theatre show that is celebrity boxing takes another dramatic turn as one of the greatest boxers of all-time takes on a guy who became famous by posting six second clips on a now defunct social media site called Vine.
The non-sanctioned, no judges exhibition match won’t technically produce a winner, but no matter, the public will cast their verdict one way or another. How we got to this point in recorded history, where truth is always stranger than fiction, shows the post-Donald Trump, pandemic landscape we now encounter and call home: anything goes and anything can happen, so grab some popcorn and fire up Twitter.