"Death was in the discourse leading up to Friday night's boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson. Marketing the fight, the two combatants repeatedly threatened to kill each other; a Netflix promo documentary referenced the bitten and bloodied ear Tyson left Evander Holyfield with in a 1997 match."
"But once the match began, streamed from a packed arena to 60 million households, it felt morbid in an unexpected way-in the way of a retirement home, not a slasher movie."
"Six rounds into the eight-round match-which ended in a unanimous decision for Paul-the commentator Rosie Perez, a longtime friend of Tyson's, dropped any pretense of being entertained. This was, she said, 'a hard story to watch.'"
"It was breathtaking to remember that, a little more than decade ago, he became famous as a happy-go-lucky teen goofing around online with his brother, Logan. Now he's an emblem of a generation of men-and a wider culture-starving for purpose while gorging on spectacle."
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