FRIDAY: Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson—8 PM EST, NETFLIX

Hello 911, the betting public would like to report a potential murder.

Mike Tyson is stepping back into a professional boxing ring at age 58 to fight YouTuber turned boxing star Jake Paul, who is 27. The YouTuber started boxing back in 2020 and has fought mostly MMA fighters and fellow “celebrities” in non-sanctioned boxing matches.

This is different. Both fight camps agreed to a sanctioned bout with modified rules (shorter rounds, no headgear and heavier gloves). Netflix has promoted this fight all year as part of the platform’s goal to run more live events in the future.

If any boxing match took cues from professional wrestling, it’s this one. Jake Paul’s embraced being the “bad guy” of this fight while Tyson seems to embrace the babyface role in which he’s found himself.

Jake Paul’s good at talking people into the building if for no other reason than to see him possibly get his ass kicked. And Tyson’s giving interviews where he says his kids are finally going to see something special about their old man Friday night. That’s not the talk I’d expect from a man doing this for a payday.

Call me crazy but I think Tyson embarrasses Jake Paul within the first three rounds.

At least that’s what the kid in me really wants to see.

SATURDAY: Tennessee vs. Georgia—7:30 PM EST, ABC/ESPN+

Folks could’ve easily sold me on the Vols needing to factor in a loss to Georgia this season. There’s three teams that traditionally have Tennessee’s number, and Georgia’s one that seems to hand the Vols their asses every year.

Then Donald Trump got re-elected President. I made a prediction the next morning that Tennessee would go into Athens and beat Georgia by two touchdowns. Hell, anything can happen at this point.

Next thing I know, Ole Miss beats UGA in Oxford. Georgia QB Carson Beck’s been on a nasty run of throwing interceptions each game and he’s going to deal with a defense that one QB has finished a game against and has held teams to 20 points or less ALL YEAR. The Dawgs look human for once.

The question for UT is whether Nico Iamaleava will start. Nico went down late in the first half last week and didn’t return for the rest of the game, leaving the duties to backup Gaston Moore. Since then, Josh Heupel said Nico will be ready to go Saturday night and the removal from the Mississippi State game was a precaution to get him ready for Georgia, but there’s a lot of suspicion Nico’s dealing with a bad concussion and won’t play.

Either way Heupel gets to list Nico as “questionable” until Saturday night now, which will keep people in Athens guessing.

I say Nico or no Nico, this is the moment the Vols slay the Georgia dragon and humble the Dawgs on their home turf. This is the moment fans live for. Yes, the last time I wrote about the Vols and Georgia here, the Vols got stomped badly. But this year’s different, right? Right?

My liver is not prepared for the amount of alcohol I may need to consume to get through this game.

SUNDAY: THE PATRIOTS LOSE AGAIN AND TOM BRADY QUESTIONS WHY HE BOUGHT A PIECE OF THE RAIDERS—Various times, various networks.

I’ve paid jack all attention to the NFL this year because my New England Patriots have a completely abysmal record. Coach Jerod Mayo’s got a lot of work to do rebuilding.

It could be worse though—you could be Tom Brady owning a minority stake in the Las Vegas Raiders. Seriously, what was Brady thinking there? Did he not see how shitty the Raiders were when he beat them? Has he not heard of a return on investment?

Wait, this was a revenge purchase after he found out Gisele was fucking her BJJ coach, wasn’t it? That explains everything.

That’s all for this week, folks. See you next Friday!