"Alt-Commentary": President Donald Trump to commentate Evander Holyfield's comeback vs. Vitor Belfort at Triller Fight Club

[DigitalDrifter]

Did his ear ever grow back?

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Did his ear ever grow back?

What?

 

[Superbadbrutha]

nobody ever claimed he was the athlete he was…but that doesn’t mean he’s not stil an athlete as you said…in fact even the writer implies he still is one

Did you see his performance Saturday night?
Are you just arguing for the sake of arguing?
The man is over the hill when it comes to being a boxer, it has nothing to do with whether he is an athlete or not. His days of boxing are way behind him, what part of that don't you understand?

 

[struth]

Did you see his performance Saturday night?
Are you just arguing for the sake of arguing?
The man is over the hill when it comes to being a boxer, it has nothing to do with whether he is an athlete or not. His days of boxing are way behind him, what part of that don't you understand?

I am not the one arguing or attacking the Champ you are.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

I am not the one arguing or attacking the Champ you are.

I am not attacking him, I am just pointing out a fact which was proven Saturday night.

 

[struth]

I am not attacking him, I am just pointing out a fact which was proven Saturday night.

saturday not didn’t prove that he isn’t an athlete

try again

is aaron rodgers not an athlete now? he lost, and badly yesterday

you won’t attack Rodgers though, cause he’s white and Trump wasn’t involved in the Packers game

typical plantation boy doing the bidding of the cult

 

[surada]

I am not the one arguing or attacking the Champ you are.

You should learn to read. His boxing days are behind him.

 

[struth]

You should learn to read. His boxing days are behind him.

Well yeah Saturday was a few days ago.

I can read. He’s a heck of an athlete. The folks attacking him are doing it for pure partisan, cult reasons and it is a shame.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

saturday not didn’t prove that he isn’t an athlete

try again

Saturday nite proved that he is not athletic enough to step into a boxing ring. Try that.

is aaron rodgers not an athlete now? he lost, and badly yesterday.

16 more games will answer that question for you, the analogy is stupid as hell but ok.

you won’t attack Rodgers though, cause he’s white and Trump wasn’t involved in the Packers game

typical plantation boy doing the bidding of the cult

You are an idiot aren't you.

 

[basquebromance]

Boxing, ‘Moonies’ and Firefighter Selfies: Trump’s Strange 9/11 of One

On the 20th anniversary of the attacks, Trump found ways to keep the spotlight on him. And make a little money.

www.politico.com

as the ringside bell chimed in honor of the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, the moment of silence at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino was interrupted by a woman’s repeated screams of “Feel that, f---ers!” and “F--- you!”

“Get out of here!” the crowd yelled back. “Shut the f--- up!”

The yelling continued. The bell tolled ten times. On camera, the former president’s face was framed by a black and yellow Triller Fight Club backdrop advertising the comeback of Evander Holyfield, the 58-year-old boxer who had been out of the ring for a decade, a close friend with a “tremendous heart,” the former president said. To Trump’s right, his son, Don. Jr., stood with his eyes cast downward.

“May they rest in peace and never be forgotten,” said Michael Buffer, the “Let’s Get Ready to Rumble” ring announcer.

Unlike at the inauguration, where cameras were still trained on his every move as outgoing president, this time even finding him was a more difficult and bizarre exercise. C-SPAN had a camera with Trump in New York City, but if you were watching the rolling cable coverage of the 9/11 proceedings, you might have only seen him briefly on Fox News. Few journalists tweeted about the visit. But it was all over Don Jr.’s feed. Scrolling through, you would quickly come to a video of the president’s son in a lime green t-shirt, teasing the Holyfield fight, with a strange promise. “I’m definitely asking about aliens, because I think now, maybe we get a solid answer about what exactly is going on at Area 51,” he said.

Doing so generated an automatic response from Triller Fight Club, a social media company trying to break into the fight and entertainment business with self-described “variety shows.” “He’s going to spill it all LIVE on PPV — DON’T MISS OUT,” the text message read.

Don Jr. had advertised this event as a fly-on-the-wall-style peek into the Trump family living room. “We would be doing this anyway,” he said. He praised his father’s recall skills and his knowledge of boxing from his days in Atlantic City. When the family celebrated Thanksgiving last year at Camp David, he said, they ordered the Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones Jr. fight on pay-per-view.

Trump did seem fluent in the world of boxing. Listening to him talk about Holyfield’s weight class, or matchups of old, felt normal in the way his presidency rarely did. His color commentary was often more general and anodyne than what Don Jr. promised.

As Joe Fournier lost an uneventful fight to his friend, David Haye, in the first undercard bout, Trump remarked, “You know, look at that left jab, that’s good. Greatest ever, left jab, was Ernie Holmes — was, uh, Larry Holmes,” he corrected. “If you look at Larry Holmes’ left, remember that?”

Grisham agreed. “The jab,” he said.

“Remember the jab?” Trump said.

“George Foreman’s was pretty good, too.”

“His was great. But for that pure left jab.”

Don Jr. added: “We may have to get you in the ring now.”

“Yeah,” his father said, “I wanna do that actually.”

This was not exactly Norman Mailer and George Plimpton covering the “Rumble in the Jungle.”

Mostly, Trump sipped on a Diet Coke as others tried to cut the silence with non sequiturs.

“How about a fight between myself and you?” Trump asked Junior dos Santos, a Brazilian MMA fight who guest-commentated. “Look at the arms on this guy. So do you think people would believe it if I knocked him out? Would they believe it? Would they say this is a legit deal?”

“In the fight world, you never know,” said dos Santos.

Trump all but begged dos Santos to utter the word “rigged” when he asked about a fight between Óscar Valdez and Robson Conceicao, where judges had made a “terrible decision,” dos Santos said, by declaring Valdez the winner.

“We’ve seen decisions where they carried the winner out,” Trump said.

Dos Santos agreed. “Conceicao was much better in my opinion. In everybody’s opinion.”

“So what did the crowd do?” Trump asked, grinning. “Were they OK with it? Did the crowd believe it?”

If he was trying to set up an allusion to Jan. 6 insurrection, dos Santos didn’t recognize it.

After more than two hours, it was time for Holyfield.

The retired great stepped out into the ring, a red robe tied loosely at the waist.

“I think you’re gonna learn a lot by the first minute,” Trump said, hedging against his friend. “First minute’s gonna tell you a lot. One thing I’ll say, Vitor looks very sharp, very sharp.”

“All right let’s go.”

Trump was right. As he crossed the one-minute mark, Holyfield wasn’t punching. He put his gloves up, protecting his face, then lost his footing, stumbling into the ropes. “Yeah, it’s, uh, it’s looking a little tough for Evander right now,” Trump said. Vitor Belfort knocked him down a second time. He stood up. “He’s having a hard time out there.”

The ref agreed. He stopped the fight before the two-minute mark.

“Right from the beginning you could see it,” Trump said. “He was not the same fighter. He lost a lot. That left jab was very slow. He lost a lot.”

The comeback Triller promised didn’t come. Trump and Don Jr. never talked about aliens. Holyfield’s opponent, Belfort, put his face in the camera to challenge YouTube star Jake Paul to a fight on Thanksgiving. Triller offered $30 million for the match. And the night was over.

Trump got the last word. “This is like a rally,” he said.

“I hear it’s going crazy on the internet — absolutely crazy.”

 

[struth]

Saturday nite proved that he is not athletic enough to step into a boxing ring. Try that.

16 more games will answer that question for you, the analogy is stupid as hell but ok.

You are an idiot aren't you.

or maybe just not as good a fighter as the other guy.

i don’t disagree using your logic is stupid

 

[Superbadbrutha]

or maybe just not as good a fighter as the other guy.

i don’t disagree using your logic is stupid

You're an idiot if you think a 60yr old man can box a 30yr old man. Have a nice day.

 

[struth]

You're an idiot if you think a 60yr old man can box a 30yr old man. Have a nice day.

i never said they could