Oso TravaClon de un Emprendedor, inversionista y host de Cracks Podcast

¿MESSI compró el MUNDIAL? | MAURICIO SULAIMAN EN CRACKS PODCAST

12 Sept 2025 · 1 min

Watch on YouTube

1:15

Excerpt from a Cracks Podcast episode in which Mauricio Sulaiman reflects on human suspicion in sports: children joking that Messi "bought" the World Cup, general distrust of referees, and parallels drawn to fixed or scripted boxing events. He addresses accusations around the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson exhibition—reports that there was a contract preventing a knockout and that some punches were withheld—and describes the event as painful rather than a legitimate contest.

Chapters

It's human nature to be suspicious. To be suspicious. I mean, every America game, what do they say? That the referee. Right. Well, my kids are now saying that Messi bought the World Cup. He won't take it out. And no matter how much we told them that that can't be done. Messi bought the World cup in all sports. I mean, they tell me that it's the same way that Kansas let themselves win the Super Bowl. So it's human nature. And in boxing, it's very easy to continue with the ideology that he was bought or that he let himself win or that. But if you analyze a boxing match of someone who let himself win, he wouldn't throw a punch. You connect and knock him out by accident. Imagine the big problem. I've never had an issue like this that I know of. Where a boxer sold out the Paul vs Tyson fight, where everyone says that Tyson let himself win. That was an exhibition, it wasn't a fight by the board. Many people say that there was a contract that said he couldn't be knocked out. There were some scenes where he was going to hit her and he didn't. But for me, overall, it was a very painful event.