Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Jr Highlights: 2 legends showcased their skills over 8 rounds| CBS Sports HQ

Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Jr Highlights: 2 legends showcased their skills over 8 rounds| CBS Sports HQ
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Ahead of Saturday’s exhibition fight between boxing legends Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr., it was impossible to predict what would happen in the ring. At a combined 105 years of age and with uncertainty over the rules ahead of the event, an already unpredictable situation felt even harder to figure out. But once the men got in the ring, they went as hard as could be asked for over eight, two-minute rounds leading to a split draw on the WBC-assigned judges scorecards.

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Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr hilarious joint interview after their exhibition

Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr hilarious joint interview after their exhibition
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Nate Robinson Got Knocked Out by Jake Paul, and Twitter Went Off

Continuing to trend heavily into Sunday morning is the vicious knockout that former NBA journeyman Nate Robinson suffered at the hands of YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul. However, it’s difficult to know where Robinson was hurt worse: Paul’s right hook or the treasure trove of memes that came after.

The fight took place Saturday night at Staples Center in Los Angeles, as the featured bout on the Mike Tyson-Roy Jones Jr. undercard. The two-time NBA slam dunk champion made his pro boxing debut against Paul, who only had one previous fight under his belt.

Robinson, fighting in New York Knicks colors, came out aggressive and looking the part of a fighter, to the point that commentator Snoop Dogg quipped: “Slow down, nephew! He got on basketball shoes.”

Paul (2-0, 2 KO) caught Robinson (0-1) with a right hand, knocking him down late in the first round. The referee allowed the former University of Washington star to continue. However, halfway into the sound round, Robinson got knocked down a second time, tagged with an overhand right to the ear.

Paul then laid down Robinson for good, knocking him out cold with a short right. Robinson’s limp body dove into the mat, as head bounced off the canvas in an ugly scene.

Paul was gracious in his win.

However, Robinson’s battle with social media had just begun. Like a grim reaper, Twitter came for Robinson’s soul as soon as it left his body. It was one of the platform’s greatest nights.

Among Us and Minecraft were even used in some of the memes.

And of course, as an NBA player, Robinson may never live the knock out down amongst his brethren. Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry dug up a tweet made by Robinson to Curry earlier in the night, in which Robinson proclaimed that he was “Gonna shock the world.”

“I see no lies,” Curry responded after the fight.

Watch the full Paul vs. Robinson fight below:


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*First Published: Nov 29, 2020, 11:18 am

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The British Government Wants Netflix To Put A Disclaimer On ‘The Crown’

The Netflix series The Crown is a series very much based in reality, but the government the show follows would very much like to remind you that it’s mostly fiction. The Netflix drama, which recently saw its fourth season hit the streaming service, has seen some pressure from the UK government to add a disclaimer on its episodes that makes clear the show is a fictionalization of real events and not an historical reenactment of sorts.

UK culture secretary Oliver Dowden has apparently put pressure on Netflix to make it more clear to viewers that The Crown, which is written by Peter Morgan, is based on actual events in the British monarchy but is dramatized for the sake of, well, a TV show. According to Deadline, Dowden has told other outlets that Netflix needs to make it more clear to viewers that significant parts of the show are fabricated for the screen.

Speaking to The Mail on Sunday, Dowden said: “It’s a beautifully produced work of fiction, so as with other TV productions, Netflix should be very clear at the beginning it is just that.”

The minister, who plans to write to Netflix this week outlining his concerns, added: “Without this, I fear a generation of viewers who did not live through these events may mistake fiction for fact.”

It’s a delicate situation for the UK government, of course, as The Crown is quite literally about the more dramatic and scandalous moments of the British monarchy. And Season 4 in particular is growing closer to the present and involves more people who are still alive to deal with those moments being portrayed to millions of people on a streaming drama. Much of the latest season, for example, deals with the relationship between Prince Charles and Princess Diana.

Deadline also laid out some instances where portions of the show’s content have been fictionalized, or at least emphasized to heighten the drama on screen that historians say doesn’t match reality.

Morgan heightened a real-life interview Hawke did with current affairs show 4 Corners, emphasizing the ex-PM’s skepticism for the royal family by having him refer to the Queen as a “pig.” In reality, he never uttered such words.

Elsewhere, Princess Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer, has been among those to voice concern about the show after Emma Corrin portrayed his late sister.

“Americans tell me they have watched The Crown as if they have taken a history lesson. Well, they haven’t,” he told ITV last weekend. “It is very hard, there is a lot of conjecture and a lot of invention, isn’t there? You can hang it on fact but the bits in between are not fact.”

It’s unclear if Netflix will honor the UK government’s wishes, but it’s important to note the show isn’t immune to disclaimers. Several Season 4 episodes come with a warning that they depict an eating disorder and offer resources to those struggling with the same things that Dianna is shown battling on the show.

In an unrelated story, Netflix will also now pay tax on revenues made in the UK rather than channel it through the Netherlands.

Source: https://uproxx.com/tv/british-government-wants-netflix-warning-the-crown-fictional/

59 Things From Amazon That'll Make Perfect Gifts

There’s no chance they make tobacco candles, pizza socks, or carbonated face masks at the North Pole. Amazon is so much better than Santa.


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Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/malloryannp/things-from-amazon-thatll-make-perfect-gifts

Peacock Apologized After The ‘Saved By The Bell’ Reboot Made Light Of Selena Gomez’s Kidney Transplant

Fans recently flocked to Twitter to slam the new reboot of Saved By The Bell after a recent episode from the show made light of Selena Gomez’s kidney transplant, which she first spoke about back in 2017. The episode mentioned the transplant in two separate scenes, one that showed the question “Does Selena Gomez even have a kidney?” written on the wall of the school’s hallway, and another that found the characters speculating who the donor behind her new kidney was.

In this discussion, names like Justin Bieber’s mom and her “best friend” and Demi Lovato were brought up. After fans shared their frustrations with the platform, Peacock issued a statement and apologized for making “light of Selena’s health.”

“We apologize. It was never our intention to make light of Selena’s health,” Peacock, NBC Universal, and the show’s executive producer’s said in a statement given to The Hollywood Reporter. “We have been in touch with her team and will be making a donation to her charity, The Selena Gomez Fund for Lupus Research at USC.”

The response from fans to the scene, which occurred in the sixth episode of the show’s reboot, found them labeling it as “disgusting,” “disrespectful,” “unnecessary,” and more. As a result of their comments on Twitter, fans made the phrase “Respect Selena Gomez” trend on the social media site. The incident also occurred a few months after the singer first shared an image of her kidney transplant scar on Twitter to “feel confident.”

(via The Hollywood Reporter)

Source: https://uproxx.com/pop/peacock-apologizes-saved-by-the-bell-selena-gomez-kidney-transplant-jokes/

The Box Office Delivers Its Biggest Weekend Opening Of The Pandemic

Thanksgiving weekend is traditionally one of the biggest box office weekends of the year, and despite the pandemic, 2020 is no exception. The difference, of course, is the size of the numbers. In past years, movies like Frozen, Moana, and Knives Out have put up huge Thanksgiving weekend numbers, while this year, the top film at the box office almost broke $10 million, which technically makes it the biggest opening of the pandemic.

Tenet opened on Labor Day weekend, and Warner Bros. reported that it earned $20 million, but that figure was wildly misleading because it included a Thursday-to-Monday Labor Day gross plus an entire week’s worth of grosses in Canada. The actual figure for the three-day weekend was closer to $9.4 million.

For this three-day weekend, Croods: A New Age has bested Tenet, scoring $9.7 million. For the five-day Thanksgiving weekend haul, it earned $14.3 million. That would be considered a huge flop on any other Thanksgiving weekend, but by 2020 standards, that’s an actual hit.

In fact, for the weekend, Croods: A New Age has earned $35 million worldwide, which suggests that the film could actually break even with its $65 million budget theatrically once all the grosses are in around the globe. Still, the real revenue for the Croods sequel is not likely to roll in until Christmas, when it’s made available digitally as part of Universal’s new strategy with various theaters — AMC, Cinemark, and Cineplex — to shrink the theatrical window. The window has been shortened so that they can roll it out on PVOD by Christmas Day.

The downside, unfortunately, is that $14 million worth of ticket buyers went to the movies in the midst of the biggest surge of COVID-19 of the year, which — along with Thanksgiving get-togethers — may contribute to an even bigger surge ahead of a vaccine that will roll out in the coming months. Croods: A New Age, however, is likely the biggest release until Wonder Woman 1984, which hits theaters and HBO Max on Christmas Day. Beyond WW, major releases don’t start rolling out again until March with Raya and the Last Dragon, which was supposed to be released this Thanksgiving weekend.

For the record, Croods: A New Age is scoring well with audiences. It received an A Cinemascore and a 95 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, compared to a 72 percent from critics, of which I was one, who gave it a generally good review (I also liked the original).

As for the rest of the weekend’s box office? There’s not much to say, Freaky, the body-swapping horror comedy starring Vince Vaughn, earned $1 million, which was good enough for second place. It’s earned $7 million at the box office, so far. It’s a decent haul for a pandemic, but again, it’s part of a strategy to use the theatrical release to essentially market its PVOD release, which is this Friday, only 17 days after its theatrical release (I’m actually very excited about it).

In at number three is Robert DeNiro’s War with Grandpa, which has quietly earned a respectable $17 million in 7 weeks of release. In fourth place is Kevin Costner’s Let Him Go, which is now out on PVOD, but nevertheless scored $400,000 to bring its three-week total to $8.7 million, which honestly is probably as well as a Kevin Costner and Diane Lane movie would have done in normal times against much stiffer competition.

Speaking of Frozen, the original was released on Thanksgiving weekend in 2013 and earned $93 million over its first five day. It was re-released this weekend by Disney, but came up woefully short of that, earning only $120,000, or $88 per screen. It’s been a long year.

Source: Box Office Mojo, Deadline

Source: https://uproxx.com/movies/croods-a-new-age-biggest-weekend-of-the-pandemic/