Dave Portnoy shreds Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul: Greatest con-job marketing ever

Dave Portnoy can’t stop thinking about Friday night’s fight — both admiringly and begrudgingly.“It was the greatest … I called it con-job marketing, but I would do it if I were either of them, Barstool’s founder said on an episode of the “BFFs” podcast released Wednesday.“Jake got $40 million, Tyson got $20 million.

Neither of them [were] in danger, but it was exactly what I thought [it was going to be].”The lack of drama between Tyson, 58, and Paul, 27, has been a hot-button issue since the moment the bell rang on their final round and Paul was deemed victor by unanimous decision.Accusations that the YouTuber-turned-boxer was stringing the former heavyweight champion along rained in from all corners of the internet — a notion which Paul himself gave legitimacy to.“I wanted to give the fans a show but I didn’t want to hurt someone that didn’t need to be hurt,” the internet sensation said during a post-fight interviewPortnoy was one among the masses to express his displeasure in the fight’s non-competitiveness, writing on X, “Credit to Jake Paul + Mike Tyson for pulling off one of the great cons of century.I shoulda put 10 million on Jake.

Not cause he’s good but cause he fought a senior citizen.I would say everybody involved should be ashamed but I’d take the money too if I could.”During the “BFFs” episode posted Wednesday, Portnoy shared a host of other thoughts about Tyson’s unceremonious return to the ring.“He’s a bad guy, he was the baddest, scariest motherf–ker, and that’s what people remember,” he said.

“But I don’t think they actually watched him as closely [on Friday].You just had to be out to lunch if you thought [Tyson was going to win].”Notwithstanding the lack of theatrics, Tyson-Paul was the “most-streamed global sporting event ever,” according to Netflix.More than 108 million viewers from around the globe sat through a buffering video and pixelated images, technical hitches the strea...