Netflix is getting serious about live sport. It’s bringing in Beyoncé

Netflix is getting serious about live sport. It’s bringing in Beyoncé

A Super Bowl-style half-time show on Christmas Day and a wrestling theme song are part of the streamer’s plans.

  • byGarry Maddox

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Mike Tyson’s fight with Jake Paul was utterly awful. I loved it

Mike Tyson’s fight with Jake Paul was utterly awful. I loved it

The bout was a farce,but you can watch months of “proper” sport without experiencing a buzz like seeing Mike Tyson back in the ring.

  • bySimon Briggs
‘Elderly abuse’:Boxing fans boo Jake Paul’s win over Mike Tyson

‘Elderly abuse’:Boxing fans boo Jake Paul’s win over Mike Tyson

Tyson landed just 18 of the 97 punches he threw,looking gassed after two rounds.

Who was the real winner? Paul? Tyson? Netflix? Certainly,not boxing

Who was the real winner? Paul? Tyson? Netflix? Certainly,not boxing

Jake Paul earned a unanimous points decision over Mike Tyson in a contest that went the entire eight rounds,but it’s still unclear who the real winner was.

  • byAdrian Proszenko
Sport’s future is Mike Tyson and old men shouting at clouds

Sport’s future is Mike Tyson and old men shouting at clouds

Nostalgia already casts a lengthening shadow over sports coverage,and the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul reality TV circus is the latest example.

  • byMalcolm Knox
Mike Tyson v Jake Paul:Everything you need to know

Mike Tyson v Jake Paul:Everything you need to know

For the first time in 19 years,former heavyweight world champion Mike Tyson is back in the ring as a professional. So why is he fighting a Youtuber?

  • byAdrian Proszenko
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Mike Tyson:‘There is nothing nice about me – I am not a nice person’

Mike Tyson:‘There is nothing nice about me – I am not a nice person’

At 58 years old and preparing for his fight against Jake Paul,is Mike Tyson the baddest or saddest man on the planet?

  • byOliver Brown
Anti-hero:Share prices rise high on antimony finds
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Anti-hero:Share prices rise high on antimony finds

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears Runner of the Week is … antimony. The grey metal was behind share price jumps for Larvotto Resources and several other ASX companies.

  • byCraig Nolan
Who is the greatest? Ranking boxing’s undisputed heavyweight champions
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Who is the greatest? Ranking boxing’s undisputed heavyweight champions

Oleksandr Usyk is the undisputed world heavyweight champion after beating Tyson Fury. But how does he rate against Muhammad Ali,Mike Tyson and George Foreman?

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Boxing has a blind spot when it comes to concussions

Boxing has a blind spot when it comes to concussions

The recent Tim Tszyu-Sebastian Fundora fight,much hyped by the media,developed into a bloodbath,serving only to prove that professional boxing on which so many promoters,agents and other hangers-on sponge livings,is a decadent activity.

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