The Fight #66 LNT

The bell rang and the brands met the truth. We dive into two headline-grabbing losses—Jake Paul’s defeat to an Olympic-pedigree heavyweight and Andrew Tate’s stumble inside boxing’s stricter rules—to ask a simple question: what happens when marketing collides with mastery? From shattered game plans to broken jaws, this conversation pushes past memes and hot takes to map the real gap between hype and hard-earned skill.

Chapters

• 0:00 Setting The Stage
• 0:28 Jake Paul Vs Real Pedigree
• 1:05 Breaking Down The Mismatch
• 2:10 Respect, Risk, And Reality
• 3:13 Where Does Jake Go Now
• 4:39 Safety And Seriousness Of Boxing
• 5:00 Andrew Tate Meets Boxing Rules
• 5:23 Ego, Image, And Masculinity
• 6:17 Accountability Over Hype
• 8:10 Final Thoughts And Sign-Off

Transcript

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It's Lane LA. The fights tapping in. Listen, we had some big, big fights. But I didn't think they were real fights. I thought they were joke fights. But let's talk about these joke fights. Jake Paul, Andrew Tate both had headlotting events, giant moments in the sport of boxing, people who usually don't tune in, tune in. Shout out to them for getting eyes on the sport at the end of the day. Now, let's break down what happened in these fights. Jake Paul took the L. Listen, you can't fake intangibles. You can't train to fight an Olympic level fighter last minute. Your talent is not enough when you're in there with talented people. A lot of people lost money betting for Jake to win. I don't know how you thought Jake Paul's gonna win this fight. Anthony Joshua is an Olympic pedigree boxer. It was a foregone for conclusion for me. It was just about win. So getting into the fight, I thought they had to have some type of agreement. They had to have this, they had to have that. I always thought that Jake Paul wouldn't ever put himself in a position in which he could get harmed considerably. He did do that. But here's the thing the boxing public has wanted you to fight someone on equal terms since Tommy Fury, and you still have yet to fight someone at equal terms. Once you have, you are defeated, and the way you defeated was cowardly. People thought, at least if he goes out there, goes out there on a shield, tries to fight with this guy, maybe land something big, maybe do some damage, maybe earn some credit in the boxing space. Because we got to remember, Jake Paul's biggest moments in boxing was against non-boxers. He hasn't done much or done any to real boxers. So he got in there with a real boxing heavyweight champ, and he got demolished as soon as he stopped running. And that's just reality. Boxing is reality. There's no hype, there's no joke you can say, there's no meme, there's nothing you can do from the outside that can get you outside, get you outside of failure in the ring. Like you have to take it serious. And I think Jake Paul has experience and talents, but he's not fighting anybody. Like the caliber of guys he should be fighting to build up his career, he hasn't fought. His name's too big, right? His talent doesn't match his market market ability, which is dangerous for him because he's always gonna have crazy matchups like this. I don't know where Jake Paul goes from here. He's not fighting anybody real, and if he does, he's gonna get hurt. If any real fighter goes in there with him at any weight class who isn't severely underskilled or fresh, like I think he can beat a new guy. Like, I think he can beat people with similar experience to him because they won't be used to the stage. But like any of the top heavyweight or cruiserweight prospects, he's gonna have a real tough time getting through those guys. He's gonna have a real tough time keep going out there and getting hurt. He got his jaw broken two places. See, like there's a lot of jokes and memes and shit like that. People die in boxing more than any other combat sport. It is not a joke, it is not like something to play with. Even if he was in there with Tank Davis, it would have gotten nasty, it would have got dangerous for him quick. These pros are pros for a reason. Once AJ got the range and once Jake stopped hugging him to the ground, we saw what it was. Jake didn't win any respect with boxing fans or the boxing community besides what he's done for female boxers. So shout out to that. But like anything else, it's just what it is. It's a gimmick. He's a gimmick boxer, and he's never gonna be a real boxer in a real boxing fan's eyes or in most people's eyes. He's just a guy who came in, made a couple dollars, beat some people who wasn't as good as him in a sport that they never trained as long as he did. So, you know, the guy is who he is. Shout out to bringing eyes on the sport, you know, bringing eyes as far as like boxing and that in totality. But like, here's reality, man. Um, another person who got a taste of reality is Andrew Tate. Andrew Tate has been going on so many rants, so many narratives, so many things about Machines mode. He beat up 20 guys, regular guys, I think in Dubai or something. So, like, everybody was hyped up to see what he would do in an actual fight. But here's the thing it's an actual fight with someone who has experience, someone who's just as big as him, someone that's just as strong, someone that can actually hurt him, someone who isn't disadvantaged, isn't disillusioned, isn't none of this, like he's getting in there with somebody who actually wants to do damage to him. And I think that was the biggest thing with Andrew Tate and everything we saw with him in the boxing match itself. He was in there and he wasn't ready for content, and he wasn't ready for boxing. See, he's coming from kickboxing, but you can't just get out of kickboxing and go into boxing, it's a totally different system. The people have mastered their hands, they've only used two hands to do a lot of damage and pain to another human being. So once you take a fighter that's used to using all four limbs and chain them to two, and then make him fight in a style he's not used to against a younger fighter, it's a rap. Plus, Andrew has an incredible amount of like pressure and narratives against him, right? And he put that on himself, but it's just obvious. Like, it felt like the guy was so afraid to not look like what he's been telling people he is, and that's the thing about machismo, that's the thing about ego, that's the thing about being a man that sucks, right? You also have to lose. You don't get to win every time. You are wrong. Your points look weak now. They're they're like all these things that he had built up upon, and that's and that's why I tell people, and men especially to build your masculinity on things that actually matter in the physical world, not in the material world, right? Like, how do you affect your family? How do you affect your significant other? How do you help people around you? That's how you build your masculinity and make sure you're not being used and make sure it's always going to the right places, which takes time and discernment, and make sure you keep your like your temper and everything for the right fucking moment, you know? When you just go and say you're this and that, and you're just moving with this machismo and ego, you're gonna have to prove it every time. I remember I was going to school with one kid, we get into a fight almost every fucking day. It was that to the point that like I was like, bro, are you good? He was like, nah, dog, like somebody say something, somebody like that's how fragile his masculinity was, right? So you gotta think about how things are why do you get like that and what happens at the end of it, right? That guy I'll just talk about, I don't see him, I don't know what he's up to. He might got in trouble. I don't know, I don't wish it all, but his path starts to define itself by his behaviors. So for the Jake Paul's of the world, the Andrew Tate of the world, when you're eating crow, we're dealing with a bunch of people hating you and not liking you and happy that you're in a defeated position. Remember, you were laughing at people in a defeated position as well, and that's the issue. Like these guys can dish it but can't take it, and honestly, they're not as good as what they say they are on the internet. So, stop capping. Are you gonna get capped like Jake Paul and the brother? They both got put down. It's a good W for people who like. I mean, I'm tired of Jake Paul and boxing. Like that Mike Tyson fight pissed me off. So I'm so glad he got KO'd because it one and hopefully it humbles him. Hopefully, he takes the sport more serious. I think that's the biggest thing he should do. And as far as Andrew Tate, like all the rhetoric he was spewing and all this shit he was saying, bro. At the end of the day, you're gonna have to prove that shit when you say all that shit as a man, and then boom, it was the time to prove it all, and it didn't show up, bro. So go back to the drawing board, figure that shit out. How about come and give and talk to people in a humble manner and you won't have to deal with these giant critiques, bro, because like you leave yourself open up to uh open up to it. It is really wild. Like, if you mythesize yourself, you're gonna have to slay a dragon, bro. And they these guys can't slay tigers, they can't slay bears, they can't slay chihuahuas. So I think anybody who's like a big fan of these guys need to find reality, touch some grass. These guys are entertainers first, fighters last. This is Nate. The fight happened, episode 66.