If Jake Paul knocks out Mike Tyson, it's not going to be something where everybody's
praising and so happy for Jake Paul. They're going to be like, you just knocked out a grandpa.
What's up, you guys? I'm Rachel Namita, and welcome to the Courtside Club,
where we give you a courtside view of all things that are going on in the world of sports and
entertainment. And there was big news announced last week. It is official, you guys. Jake Paul
will be fighting Mike Tyson. Before we even dive into this topic, I want to know right now,
who do you guys think is going to win this fight? Do you think it's going to be Jake Paul? Do you
think it's going to be Mike Tyson? Let me know in the comments below. So Ariel Helwani announced
the fight on X. He said Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson is a done deal, July 20th, exclusively on
Netflix Live Cowboy Stadium. This tweet has over 15 million views,
and of course, when I saw this, I sprinted straight to the comments. One word, three letters,
why? And that's originally what I thought when I heard this news. I feel like on this topic,
you guys, I've been going back and forth because I'm not one who's been, I'm not like the normal
crowd who seems to be just like a Jake Paul hater. I do respect what he's done kind of in
the space, and he does seem to be a pretty legitimate boxer at this point.
But this whole fight seems just weird to me, and I'm going back and forth on how I actually feel
about it. So Mike Tyson posted the announcement on his Instagram, and his fans, they were torn
about this announcement. I'll just say that. He wrote, we signed the contract,
and then he tagged Netflix and most valuable promotions. The top comment says, Mike Tyson,
you're an idol of my generation, a hero. Everyone will remember you,
forever. You don't need these scenes. Please don't give this guy a chance to just get in the
ring with you, a legend, or he ruins everything. Finish like the hero you are and don't play these
games. I'm speaking to you on behalf of all your fans my age. So this is what Mike had to say about
the fight. He said he's grown significantly as a boxer over the years, so it will be a lot of fun
to see what the will and ambition of a kid can do with the experience and aptitude of a goat.
Mike Tyson said of Paul, who was 30 years his junior, Tyson added, it's a full circle moment
that will be beyond thrilling to watch as I started him on his boxing journey on the undercard
of my fight with Roy Jones. This is the fight where Jake Paul knocked out Nate Robinson back
in 2020, but Tyson says he now plans to finish him. So just as a reminder, guys, Jake Paul is 27
and Mike Tyson is 57, and he will be 58 by the time these two finish.
In July, there's been a lot of concern about Mike Tyson's health from fans across the internet,
and there was this video circulating of him walking with a cane in 2022, and there are also
rumors that he was in a wheelchair back in 2022. Also, he claimed that it was like some back injury
that he was recovering from, but the guy is close to 60 years old and has been a professional
athlete. As you guys know, if you put so much wear and tear on your body for this many years,
a professional athlete at 60 is probably going to have like more injuries, more aches and pains
than just a regular person who hasn't been training, fighting, been in a combat sport
like this their entire life. Something that I thought was interesting was this interview
that Mike Tyson did with Joe Rogan a few years ago, where he actually talked about when he
started training, he was like, I'm going to be a professional athlete. I'm going to be a professional
athlete. I'm going to be a professional athlete. I'm going to be a professional athlete. I'm going to be a professional
for the Roy Jones fight back in 2020.
The emotional state to prepare for that is mind boggling.
Well, that's what I was seeing when I was seeing you hit the pads. I'm like,
this isn't just working out. There was something going on, man. When you were working out with
Cordero and you rip into the body and thrown those hooks, I was like, this is a man who's
preparing to go to combat. This is not normal, getting ready to work out shit. That's why when
I saw that video, I was like, Oh, let me tell you something about that video.
I did that video.
and I was in bed for a week that was 30 seconds and I was in bed for a week and it's not funny
because it made me realize that this is this is this is big boy shit okay boy shit the point of
this video he talks he goes on to say that after that training session and how much training that
he had to do for this fight it reminded him as to why he quit boxing in the first place because all
these aches and pains all these injuries started coming back which is like a totally fair statement
to say when you are nearing 60 and you've been doing this combat sport and you've been putting
your body through hell for most of your life there have been some videos of him training in
2024 somewhat recently I'm no boxing expert I don't know what to to gather from these videos
they're also very short videos so I don't think anybody can look at them and say oh he's ready
oh he's not ready it's very different from posting a 30 second video online
you're not ready you're not ready you're not ready you're not ready
you're not ready you're not ready you're not ready you're not ready you're not ready you're not ready
to getting in the ring with somebody and going rounds in a very competitive fight all this gets
back to the question as to why I'm not going to go into the x's and o's of boxing I don't know
who's going to win this fight but what my mind goes to is who will be the winner regardless of
who wins this fight and I think the only answer to that is Jake Paul if Mike Tyson beats Jake Paul
Mike Tyson one of the greatest boxers of all time beat a YouTuber who hasn't been boxing for very
long because like I said I've met Jake he seems lovely I do think what he that he has contributed
to the sport of boxing and he's made it to where boxers are getting paid more there's more eyeballs
on the sport whether you love or hate Jake Paul you're going to be tuning into whoever he's fighting
a lot of people on the internet still want to see him get KO they're just asking but like can one
person just knock him out they're just really tired of him um I don't have that kind of hatred
for Jake I also don't think that these fights are rigged but this one to me seems weird you're
fighting somebody 30 years older um but I again I go back and forth because this to him is probably
like getting in the ring with an idol of his why wouldn't he take that opportunity why wouldn't
he make millions and millions and millions of dollars if Jake Paul knocks out Mike Tyson it's
not going to be something where everybody's praising and so happy for Jake Paul they're
going to be like you just knocked out a grandpa like that's going to be the general consensus or
it's going to be this fight was rigged and Tyson took the fall because there's no way Jake could
knock out Mike Tyson if Jake loses to Mike Tyson it's going to be like of course you lost he's the
goat like he just lost to Mike Tyson he's the goat he's the goat he's the goat he's the goat he's the
he still got it Jake you should fight a real boxer I don't know where the trajectory of Jake
Paul's career goes because for him to fight to for him to fight like a professional boxer
it's not going to have as many eyeballs on it as him going up against celebrities or big names who
are in other fields right the whole the whole premise of boxing it's still entertainment at
the end of the day it's about
selling tickets about selling pay-per-views I don't I don't know where he goes from here it's
a little bit strange though also for me to think of why Mike Tyson needs this fight
he's known as the greatest so if he knocks out Jake it doesn't help his legacy at all it doesn't
make him look like a better boxer than he was before and if he loses to Jake I feel like the
the risk of that is just like so much more than the reward unless they're getting some
sort of crazy number of dollars but then that goes also into the philosophical conversation
is like is all money good money or how how much money is actually worth your dignity your pride
your legacy your ego I do though hope I hope neither of them get hurt I hope Mike Tyson doesn't
get hurt I don't think anybody wants to see that maybe it will just be a great show and maybe it's
you know kind of how Floyd Mayweather and Logan Paul was they didn't even announce a winner
and it just gets a bunch of people to
in. They make millions of dollars and maybe the undercards get elevated. Maybe that's the silver
lining. Maybe whoever's fighting underneath her. I don't know yet. I don't, I don't know if they
announced it yet, but maybe who's fighting under that gets elevated a bit more and they can make
more money and they can get their name out there and then, you know, build their celebrity. And
that's what you need in the sport of boxing. But you guys let me know in the comments below what
you think about this fight. Do you think it's a fair fight? Do you think Jake should have taken
this fight? Do you think Mike Tyson should have taken this fight? Um, and who do you think is
going to win? Do you guys let me know in the comments below. I still feel like I'm a, I'm a
little bit split on this one of how I actually feel about it, but I wish them both the best
and we'll just have to see. Another story that was making its rounds this weekend online was
the announcement that Drea Michelle is pregnant with her third child. So,
Pasquale Wives alum Drea Michelle announced that she was pregnant and expecting a baby girl with
Houston Rockets star Jalen Green. She wrote happy hashtag international women's day.
And she posted pictures of her with her baby bump. She said, as women, we navigate through so much
often leading us to question what is my purpose for me, the magic lies and motherhood and the
awe inspiring ability to bring life into this world over the span of two decades. It's my
superpower. And if anything, it's my power. And if anything, it's my power. And if anything,
can surpass the wonder of being a woman, it's the privilege of bringing another woman into
existence. So this is Drea Michelle's third child. She is dating Houston Rockets player, Jalen Green.
I don't want to talk too much about their relationship, but I will give you guys some
context. Drea Michelle is 39. Jalen Green just turned 22. And one of Drea Michelle's children
older than Jalen Green. That was the first bit of information that gave me some pause about this
whole thing. We see massive age gaps in celebrity relationships across the board, not just women
dating younger, but we see it most of the time with men dating younger. So this is not some new
phenomenon in the celebrity world. However, having a child that is the same age or older than the
person that you are now having a child with to me would just give me pause. I don't have children
of my own, but I just can't imagine being nearly 40 years old and wanting to date somebody who is
the same age as my child. It's boggling my brain a little bit how the kid's dad is going to be
younger than the kid's brother. Moving along,
I wanted to talk about a video that was also circulating where Drea shares that she wants one
more kid and the reason why she does. So let's check this out.
Do you want any more kids or are you done?
Oh yeah, I want more kids.
Like one, I think.
So like the person you're dating, you see like a future with them?
I think the question you were asking me is if I wanted more kids.
I feel like I want more kids and I feel like at this point in my life, right? The relationship
is amazing to have, right? But that's not what I'm basing having a kid on because
I'm very non-traditional. I feel like you can co-parent without being in a relationship.
Maybe just two people say, hey, you want a kid? I want a kid. Let's just have a kid.
And like, let's just say, I'm very like free spirit. I'm very open.
I didn't have too many thoughts.
I was in my mind like, okay, wishing them the best. Jalen Green seems pretty young. He's doing
super well in the NBA right now. I hate that there's more noise around him because of who
he's dating, like taking away kind of from his craft because that has been the biggest news as
of late, but he's also been playing really well on the court. But then when I saw that,
am I the crazy one who thinks that that's not the way you should think?
Having a kid and also feeling bad for Jalen Green. When you get asked point blank,
the person that you're in a relationship, do you see a future with this person? And she
kind of laughs and completely diverts the question. Like to me, I don't know her personally,
but that's her saying like, no, I don't really see a future, but I do want a kid with them.
And also to say that the reason you want a kid, but you don't care if
it's dad is in its life because you're free spirited and non-traditional to me is just like,
wrong. I think it's completely wrong. And I think in some of these cases,
us as women maybe need to call out other women and point to a celebrity when they are
saying things in the media that are actually detrimental. I feel like to society it's a well,
there's well-known statistics that prove that children and two parent households do better.
And I'm not saying that you can't be a single mom or a single dad and raise a fantastic child and
do all that. I'm not saying that you can't be a single mom or a single dad and raise a fantastic child and do all that.
But when you're going into it, basically setting your kid up for that, for your own selfish reasons,
just because you want to have a kid. I feel like just the way that she talked in that interview
was very selfish. I think having a child with somebody who's as old as your oldest child is
also selfish in a sense. This whole thing just kind of makes me feel icky inside. You guys let
me know in the comments, what you think, am I the crazy one? Is this all fine and dandy? And it's
just what celebrities do and it should just be accepted. You guys let me know in the comments
to end it. I would just say that I'm hoping that I'm wishing them both the best. I hope that Drea
has a happy, healthy baby. And that's all I have to say about that. March madness is just around
the corner. And I know that we've been talking about college hoops a lot on this channel recently,
but there was just some news that leaked a report that said that Duke, Kansas and more
are in talks with MCBB tournament offering $2 million in NIL money. It says following in the
footsteps of the NBA men's college basketball is looking to start its own in-season tournament,
featuring eight of the biggest programs in the country. According to front office sports,
the tournament will be dubbed players era with 2 million in name image and likeness deals
being offered to these teams that participate. So the teams are talking to right.
Duke, Kansas, Alabama, Florida, Atlantic, Oregon, San Diego state, Virginia, and Houston. They noted
that the tournament operator is guaranteeing that sponsors and other tournament partners will offer
each school a total of 1 million in NIL money for participating. The money will be spread around to
various groups, including collective boosters or other NIL entities with coaches and teams
given the ability to distribute the money as they see fit. As long as it goes to players currently
in the team, the winning team will receive an additional 1 million in NIL money to be distributed
in the same way. My initial thoughts after seeing this were few things. Firstly, why are they also
not doing this for the women's side? Women's college basketball right now has had so much
visibility and press. I feel like even more than the men's side and why I think it would be
important to do this for the women's side and why I think women's basketball is going to continue to
Especially on the college level and why it's so important on the college level
is because girls stay in college for all four years, sometimes five. So the storylines,
the rivalries between teams, the rivalries between players continue on over many of years.
A lot of these top recruits that are playing at Duke and these other big schools are one and done.
A tweet went out about this and I feel like the general consensus from the public was also kind
of all over the place.
Somebody commented,
this is pay to play. It gives schools recruiting advantages over other schools and must not be
permitted. NIL is for student athletes to profit off their name and likeness. This is not NIL.
Somebody said, wait until the players start demanding money from the NCAA to play in their
NCAA tournament. Fiscal incentives based on tournament success. Which if you are going to
have only a few teams in this kind of tournament, I do think that maybe it's a bit unfair.
For other schools and it goes into this bigger discussion of where NIL is right now and how it's
going to continue to grow. Because I will say that college basketball and college sports in general
do not need fixing. They're fantastic. There's always a competitive edge. These kids, and I'm
going to say kids because they're very young. These kids are still going out on the court,
on the field and playing.
With so much passion and drive and love for the sport. And that's why I'm glad that a lot of
players are getting compensated now because it is like a full-time job and these colleges are
making a lot of money off of your name and likeness. However, is there a point where it
dips too far to where college becomes like we see the NBA or the NFL becoming? Is there players who
come in and they don't care to play that much?
See kids starting to sit out because they know that they're making money anyway and they're one
and done and they're ready to go to the NBA. And so I think something like this, where there is
going to be $2 million going to the winning team, maybe we just be careful from all sides. Or it
does turn into something where college sports are thrown into the same category as professional
sports. And we won't know what the detriment or the negative side effects of that will be
Passes. So it's exciting. I it's exciting that college sports in general seem to be growing even
more than they ever have been. I just hope that the integrity of college sports remains.
Why can't there be an end season tournament for like, you know, we're, we're 70, 80 teams playing.
Yeah. Like it, like it doesn't matter. That's the thing that I think there's hopefully there
comes to be more of those.
I guess the one thing with NIL is like, I root for the kids who are playing in college who might
not be good enough or might not have dreams to play professionally. And maybe this is like my
own bias showing because like, if I had NIL in college, I wouldn't have quit playing basketball.
And I can say that with full conviction. I quit because I never wanted to play professionally.
And so I didn't see the benefit of,
becoming the greatest basketball player I could possibly be. And then quitting
and sacrificing a bit of my education for that. So like I root for the girls guys who are
like, I root for them to make money also. So if it's only going to the top schools and the star
players who are going to be first round draft picks, it's like, I guess fair. This is, this
is capitalism fair, but I would love for,
other kids to get that opportunity as well, because division one sports is a grind. It's
so much of your time. You sacrifice a lot. You sacrifice it's for me. I thought you have to
sacrifice a lot of like your education as well, depending on what school you go to time with
friends, this and that you can't get a secondary job because you're practicing and doing all these
things. So you're not making money in other ways. Um, so yeah,
I hope, I hope that other teams are also invited and they, they do more of those.
What do you guys think about this, this college in-season tournament playing for $2 million?
Do you think it's going to positively or negatively impact the NCAA? Do you think the women should
also get this opportunity to play in tournaments like this? Let me know in the comments below what
you guys think and who you think is going to win the tournament this year. All right. So I wanted
to tell you guys about something that happened to me recently, where I was approached.
By a company very similar to OnlyFans asking if I wanted to join their platform and their pitch
was about how, you know, they have people on the platform that are making like $2 million a year.
This platform isn't as big as only OnlyFans, but it is similar. They were familiar with the fact
that my audience is predominantly male, which it is. And I think a lot of that obviously has come
from my days at NBA 2k and just working in sports.
A lot of you guys who do watch my content are guys. They knew that about me and they were just
trying to sell me on this idea of maybe starting on this platform that goes behind a paywall and
there's monthly subscribers, just as there is OnlyFans and Patreon and other places.
And I let them kind of give me their spiel and heard what they had to say. Another thing that
they said was, you know, there's different ways to promote this. You can kind of put
whatever information, whatever photos, whatever videos, whatever you want behind this paywall.
It doesn't have to be nudity. It doesn't have to be like sexy photos like a lot of girls do,
but you could do, you know, you could do day in the life things you could do behind the scenes.
But then something that stood out to me, he was like, but you know, there is better ways to
promote it than others. You know, if you just promote it and said like, Hey, check out my
behind the scenes and subscribe here. You might get a little bit more money. You might get a little
bit more money. You might get some people to sign up. But then on the other side, if you posted
yourself kind of in like a bikini and said, like started a blank page with a little devil emoji,
then you'll probably get a lot more people to click and sign up because they don't really
know what they're seeing. But then behind the paywall, you could post whatever you want.
They also mentioned how they have people who are behind the scenes and they will kind of manage
the page of these women because they said like,
there are some guys who use these platforms, but it is mostly women who use these platforms.
But the guys behind these paywalls are the ones who are messaging people. I guess on these,
on these sites, subscribers can pay the girls to like chat with them or get personalized videos,
this and that. And they do that for you. So there would be somebody like on my team who would be
messaging these different guys thinking it was,
for me, the people I was talking to, I will say lovely people, but I got off the call with kind of
an icky feeling in my stomach. I told them I would, you know, thank you so much. I'll like
talk to my team about it. It's not what I did at all. I'm not going to talk to my team about
anything. I'm not doing anything like that. I'm never going to do anything like that.
So if you're coming to this video, hoping that I'm going to say that I'm going to do an OnlyFans,
it's never happening. An OnlyFans is never happening. And anything close to OnlyFans,
is never happening. And anything you guys, if I tell you to subscribe for, to something,
to see some exclusive content, it's never going to be something where I'm showing off my body or
sharing a side of myself that I wouldn't feel comfortable with the entire world seeing.
That's number one. Number two, it got me to thinking of the bigger issue
that's happening right now in today's society with social media, with OnlyFans and with these kind of
pornographic websites, where there are millions of men who are subscribed,
and paying women just to see their body. And there are millions of women who are thinking that
it's okay to do that. And they're actually using that as their main source of revenue or as a
career at this point. And it's really, it's sad to me that we've gotten to a place in society
where this is so normal. Like I remember, I remember years ago where there was some shame
behind some of these career paths, and we don't have that anymore. And I think
the thing that upsets me the most about it is I understand the appeal of girls who might not have,
might not have money, might have bills to pay, may have kids to support. And they see this as
an easy way to access money, right? It's, it's a career, it's a job, but I think the side that
you're missing and what a part of me that I could never fathom doing is giving away such a sacred
myself and my life and just the safety risks behind it as well. Like I mentioned, I do have
a predominantly male audience, but with that, even to me and the, the very small bits of
information that I share with you guys about my life and my personal life, I already feel
a lot of times, like I'm not completely safe because there have been instances where I've been
in public and fans have come up to me and not made me feel very safe or said,
certain things that have made me uncomfortable. And that's not, that's not the majority. Most of
you guys are lovely when I meet you, but I couldn't even imagine taking off my clothes
and then having a fan meet me in person. Like, how do you go about regular life knowing that
you never know who you run into on the street has seen you in that most vulnerable place.
I also wonder what is going on with men in society where you really feel like you,
have to pay girls to see them or chat with them, which by the way, if you guys are on OnlyFans
paying for chats with girls, it's probably not them messaging you. It's probably some guy
by the way. So sorry to burst your bubble if you're actually doing that, but how have we
gotten to a place where that's how men are spending their free time and their free money.
It's honestly sad. And I don't want it to be something where OnlyFans is normalized. I don't
want it to be something where these lines of work are so normalized and so,
so glorified and glamorized in a sense. Oh, bad, bad baby turned 18 and made $3 million on her
first day on OnlyFans. No, that's actually sick. That means however many people were waiting for
a 17 year old to turn 18 so she could legally post nude photos on OnlyFans. That's not something
that's like, oh, good job. Like, yeah, I guess good job robbing a bunch of sicko men, but that's
I don't want this to be something that becomes normalized and becomes okay. And I really hope
that the tide starts to turn a little bit because I also think it's a, it's probably a slippery
slope for some of these women who get on these sites like OnlyFans and other places like this,
where they start by just maybe, you know, showing fitness things or showing bikini photos. And then
they're getting requests from their subscribers. Like we want to see more, we want to see this,
or, and then, then these girls,
feel pressure because if they don't do this, then they're going to lose subscribers. And that's the
only place that your income is coming from. So I don't, I guess I don't, I don't know
the purpose of this video is, was really only to share with you guys my experience of what
happened to me, but it is something that I'm just, I'm seeing so much more often.
And even with advertisements, I see like OnlyFans and these other sites being advertised so much.
And I just, I guess wanted to share,
how against it I am. And if you have girlfriends, if you have friends that are girls that you want
to share this video with and just maybe help them and share with them, like, Hey, maybe this isn't
the right career path. I promise you. There's so many different ways that we can go in the world
with our career, with our jobs. There's so many different ways to make money. And listen, you
guys, there's also normal jobs. We don't all have to be on social media, making our money
on social media or being famous or, or taking off clothes or posting really pretty pictures.
There are so many ways that we can contribute to this world without doing that as women. And so I
hope that this just reaches the right audience. Maybe one for men, stop spending your money doing
that and like go to the gym, invest in something, take a girl on a date and spend your money there
with her in person, like buy her dinner. Don't spend it on some random girl on the internet who
you're probably messaging with another middle-aged man behind the scenes. Don't do that. So one men
And two women, please find your passion in other ways because you don't have to sell
your body and a part of your soul to make money. And I don't think maybe I'm wrong,
but I really don't think that there's an amount of money in the end. And a lot of girls are also
doing this when they're super young. I don't think that there's an amount of money in the end.
That's going to make up for those years, that time, that piece of yourself that you
feel like you're doing. And I don't think that there's an amount of money in the end that's going
feel like you lost when you were young and in your twenties. And the last thing I'll say is
whatever you put on the internet on the internet will be there forever. So choose wisely what you
want that to be. But what do you guys think about only fans? Do you think it's okay? Do you think
that it should be banned? Do you think that it's good for society, bad for society? You guys let
me know in the comments, maybe in an upcoming video, I can dive deeper into the subject and
read some of the things that you guys have to say.
I'll see you guys in the next video.