Some of what I hear: It’s disgusting. It’s the worst. Nah, I’m not about him. He’s a bastard. It’s a tool. He’s a punk. Even in a crowd of white males in their 20s, in one of the most popular neighborhoods in New York City, I couldn’t find a Paul fan.
I finally found Evan Pelton, 23in whom BostonPreviously worked in sales and Daily tradingis currently taking a year off from work to move around. He’s that age, and yes, he grew up watching Jake Paul’s Vine videos (on the short-lived platform where Paul rose to prominence). “I wasn’t a fan, but I always saw them,” he said. But he found Jake and Logan Paul’s show distasteful at best. “I feel like everyone I know thinks it’s annoying,” Evan says. “But when it comes to social media, what explodes is anger. Everyone loves to watch the train burn.”
Ivan also grew up watching boxing, is Filipino, and is a fan of Pacquiao. He needed to see the fight, but he knew as soon as he saw the rules that it wouldn’t be good. In that regard, Evan was probably just the right person to spend fight night with
At one point, during a pre-fight interview with Tyson, those in attendance gasp and laugh as Tyson turns away from his interviewer, his nearly completely bare bottom. She flashed impudently To the world. I thought of the moment from the three-part Netflix documentary made before the fight, where Tyson goes to the mall with his daughter, and in a candy store, dispenses candy straight from the candy scoop into his mouth, putting the scoop in the back. His daughter is terrified. What? says Tyson, arguing that a scoop is worth a lot more now than it was before. This is not a prizefighter. This is an embarrassing father. This is the guy we hope will win tonight’s fight.
By 11pm, the bar is packed wall to wall. It’s hard to know who’s here for the typical Murray Hill Friday night pick-up scene, and who’s here for the fight — but the place is, in fact, crowded, like any crowded urban bar on a Friday night, full of people smart enough to live in New York City. .
