Also on the box…

There was, however, one thing even better than Jake Paul getting his jaw handed to him in the world of boxing this week, and that came a few hours later…

…when this cunt got thumped in the ring by a guy who barely even counts as a boxer. So much for Andrew Taint’s great boxing debut; I know he was a kickboxer for some years, but I gather that’s still a different discipline from the little I know… and I gather, too, he didn’t exactly fight giants of the sport when he was involved in it, but, to be fair, he did do it professionally. I don’t believe Chase Demoor does, and I gather he’s best known as an influencer from some reality TV show. He is a “heavyweight champion”, but only in the rather small competition in which he fights, Misfits Boxing, which was founded a few years ago by Youtube character KSI, who, amusingly, also kicked off Jake Paul’s boxing “career”… and also Tate apparently has some stake in it as well but there seems to be some debate as to quite what that is.

Anyway, nearly ten years after retiring from kickboxing and five years since he last fought at all, Taint seemed to think he should make a sporting comeback, and seemed to think Demoor would be an easy hit… alas, though he apparently did start well, the whole thing became a mismatch like the Paul/Joshua fight, and the older guy who frankly hasn’t lived a lifestyle conducive to maintaining sporting prowess over years of inactivity lost comprehensively to the guy who apparently isn’t even that good but still not as shit as the other guy was… and Demoor humbled Tate enough that even he had to acknowledge how shit he was. The latter’s goons on Twitter and wherever else are still trying to spin it as some sort of “hey, at least he tried” moral victory, but I think he’s actually been genuinely rattled by this; he had to rely on himself for once and he found himself wanting. No word yet on what Greta Thunberg thinks about the debacle, but I feel celebratory pizza might be involved…