You knew it was coming. You knew it as surely as you know the local hayseed is going to get fleeced by the midway slick with the pea and the three shells.
And so a day after YouTube Boy went the distance with a senior citizen just looking for another payday, here was some sports talk foof saying YouTube Boy -- aka, Logan Paul -- proved he was "legit." The guy driving my car when he said that (Aka: me) just shook his head and laughed.
Damn, but the con is so easy sometimes. Even when the conned are national sports media guys who ought to know better.
Listen, boys and girls: Logan Paul is no more legit than he was before Sunday night, when he fought 44-year-old Floyd Mayweather in an exhibition and stayed upright throughout. He never landed anything, but he took a few Geritol shots from Floyd and shook them off, so suddenly he wasn't a joke anymore.
Ummm ... no.
Yes, YouTube Boy went the distance, but it was an exhibition. Which means it was supposed to go the distance, because you gotta give the rubes their PPV money's worth or they won't come back.
Plus, Mayweather was never a knockout guy even in his prime, back there in 1897 or whenever.
So I'm thinking if you put YouTube Boy in a real fight with a real contender the same size who's hungry to climb the ladder, he gets his ass handed to him. He gets exposed for what he is, a pugilistic version of the cat that plays the piano on the internet.
In other words: Click bait.
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