Jake Paul v Ben Askren: YouTube star wins with knockout inside two minutes

Snoop Dogg, Justin Bieber, a ringwalk with a robot – if ever there was a fight where the boxing was second to the spectacle, this was it.

Jake Paul versus Ben Askren, a YouTube star versus a former UFC fighter. A much-hyped circus that, in the end, lasted just one minute and 59 seconds.

“I told y’all I’m a real fighter,” Paul said.

Not that he’d had the greatest of tests beforehand. In a boxing career that