Misplaced Pugilist

Nate Robinson stepped into the ring yesterday versus YouTube star Jake Paul. Now, when I was in fifth grade, the Paul brothers, Jake and Logan, used to be great music stars, I watched them and hummed their music until they began being weird.

Later, the two of them had an interest in hand-to-hand combat and then they dropped off the top music leader boards. After being submerged in other music and better boxers, Nate made a professional appearance yesterday that I just had to be watched on “Legends Only” boxing – Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones Jr. was the main event.

When I saw that Paul was going to tango with Nate Robinson, the Leonardo Da Vinci of sports, I had to stop everything and watch. This blog is definitely not about a washed YouTube star, this is about the Da Vinci of sports. Nate Robinson stepped into the spotlight as a point guard mainly for the New York Knicks during his not really eventful NBA career.

The most he ever averaged in a season was 17.2 PPG, but, he played basketball professionally, only about 0.000006% of people can say that right now. For a sub-par NBA career – a 42.3% FG% is good, but when I find something good on this guy, I find something worse than the last bad thing, he was a reallllllllly bad ball-hog – as a PG, he had 4.5 assists one year, and that was his career-high – one word – rough.

After he retired from the NBA, he decided to switch to another physical sport – football. The 5’ 9” guy would make a killer running back, and that’s about it, not even cornerback. He’s my height, as an adult and he played in the NBA - *spark of hope flashes.*

He tried to join the Seattle Seahawks, on a tryout, and the Seahawks never gave him a chance. The ‘hawks should’ve picked him up, with speed and amazing change of direction, he could’ve solved their RB woes that they are suffering now.

He also played flag football – with retired NFL players – and also never thrived there. As a multi-sport athlete in high school, playing both sides of the ball in football and thriving in basketball, because, you know, he did play in the NBA. He was also a track star in high school, your usual Tyreek Hill there, and probably doing the high jump as well, being a 5’ 9” guy who made it to the dunk contest, Kemba Walker, who’s 6’ hasn’t dunked yet, just to put that into perspective for you.

Not being dejected as he is one of the most athletic people to step onto the face of the earth, he decides to go to virtually the only sport he hasn’t tried, boxing. If you look at footage of Nate Robinson, like his life story and his story traveling from sport to sport, you can see one or two clips of him boxing. He has a great story, he’s always wanting more, has an underdog mentality (literally) and he’s intimidating his opponents, even if he’s looking up to them (again, literally).

Robinson stepped into the ring yesterday, but sadly, it was as big as a mismatch as Vita Vea on Tyreek Hill on a streak. Jake Paul – who’s an absolute unit, versus tiny Nate Robinson, that’s so unfair.

In the first round, Paul brought the same energy as he did a few years ago, he came out swinging. Robinson’s energy was nowhere near it as he was lost after the two-minute round. The second round calmed Paul’s wildness but Robinson held on after falling twice. After they started hugging and wearing each other down, they released and Paul hit once and Robinson hit the deck like a sack of potatoes.

The winner was announced and Robinson was just starting to come to, Jake Paul was being interviewed while Robinson was still wiping his lip and thinking that he’s late for school in his hometown. Robinson should’ve gotten a warm-up fight with someone his own height and weight, and thennnnn fight Paul. I want to follow this guy’s career, only to see him get dropped again.

Fantasy coverage coming next.