(L-R) Mike Tyson, Nakisa Bidarian and Jake Paul pose onstage throughout the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson Boxing match press convention at Texas Stay! in Arlington, Texas, on Might 16, 2024.
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The extremely anticipated boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson has already secured its place within the report books.
The combat’s promoter, Most Precious Promotions, which is co-owned by Paul, advised CNBC it expects greater than 70,000 individuals to be in attendance to the Friday night time bout at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The Dallas Cowboys’ stadium has a seating capability of 80,000.
The gate receipts alone have introduced in $17.8 million in income, the promoter stated.
That makes it the largest boxing gate in historical past exterior of Nevada. The earlier report was $9 million in gate receipts for the 2021 combat between Canelo Álvarez and Billy Joe Saunders at AT&T Stadium.
MVP stated the gate can be increased than any non-Las Vegas UFC combat, apart from Conor McGregor versus Eddie Alvarez in New York Metropolis in 2016.
Nakisa Bidarian, co-founder of MVP, advised CNBC’s “Closing Bell” that each Tyson and Paul might be making eight figures from this combat and Taylor and Serrano will even be having report paydays for girls’s boxing.
The combat between Paul, a 27-year-old YouTube influencer-turned-boxer and Tyson, a 58-year-old boxing legend, will air Friday at 8 p.m. ET on Netflix, free to subscribers.
The occasion will even characteristic one of the crucial anticipated ladies’s boxing rematches in historical past: undisputed tremendous light-weight champion Katie Taylor versus unified featherweight champion Amanda Serrano.
Netflix has upward of 283 million paid memberships in additional than 190 international locations. The bout will even be a take a look at for the streamer because it ventures deeper into the sports activities area and as boxing sidesteps the pay-per-view mannequin.
“Numbers do not lie,” Paul stated Wednesday at a press convention for the combat. “Individuals need to see this and that is a tremendous accomplishment. … It is a assertion that we had the largest dwell gate exterior of Vegas in U.S. boxing historical past.”
Tickets for the combat on Friday vary on StubHub from about $58 to $1,500. MVP has additionally offered higher-end packages, together with a $2 million VIP expertise that comes with ringside seats. The promotions firm says its 375 VIP seats have formally offered out.
For comparability, Vegas’ greatest combat in historical past befell in 2015 between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. That combat took in additional than $72 million in tickets, in response to the Las Vegas Evaluation-Journal.
