It was never a real fight, between a 58 year old and a social media star, but 50 million people watched anyway, because that what we’ve been trained to do—when a spectacle is offered up, watch. The real fight happened in the bout before, an absolutely brilliant rematch between Katie Taylor, who landed 217 punches, and Amanda Serrano, who landed 324. Compare this to the main event: Mike Tyson landed 18 punches. Jake Paul landed 78. It’s not that Tyson and Paul weren’t fighting—one landed punch makes it a fight—but that Tyson and Paul were a performance piece. For which Paul will take home $40 million, as producer of the spectacle. Something about how this fake, derivative, spectacle fight (Tyson-Paul) rubbed up against a real real real fight (Taylor-Serrano) is metaphorical of how we fight nowadays. Of which fight precisely is not yet clear.