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(L-R) Mike Tyson, Nakisa Bidarian and Jake Paul pose on stage throughout the press convention between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson Boxing at Texas Stay! in Arlington, Texas, on Might 16, 2024.
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The lengthy awaited boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson has already secured his place within the document books.
The struggle’s promoter, Most Precious Promotions, which Paul co-owns, advised CNBC it expects greater than 70,000 individuals to attend Friday night time’s struggle at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The Dallas Cowboys stadium has a seating capability of 80,000.
The receipts alone have generated $17.8 million in income, the promoter mentioned.
That makes it the biggest boxing gate in historical past exterior of Nevada. The earlier document was $9 million in receipts for the 2021 struggle between Canelo Álvarez and Billy Joe Saunders at AT&T Stadium.
MVP mentioned the gate can also be greater than any UFC struggle exterior Las Vegas besides Conor McGregor vs. Eddie Alvarez in New York Metropolis in 2016.
Nakisa Bidarian, co-founder of MVP, advised CNBC’s “Closing Bell” that each Tyson and Paul will make eight figures from this struggle and that Taylor and Serrano can even have document paydays for ladies’s boxing.
The struggle between Paul, a 27-year-old YouTube influencer turned boxer, and Tyson, a 58-year-old boxing legend, airs Friday at 8 PM ET on Netflix, free to subscribers.
The occasion can even characteristic some of the anticipated girls’s boxing rematches in historical past: undisputed tremendous light-weight champion Katie Taylor versus unified featherweight champion Amanda Serrano.
Netflix has over 283 million paid memberships in additional than 190 international locations. The struggle can even be a check for the streamer because it strikes deeper into the sports activities world and as boxing bypasses the pay-per-view mannequin.
“Numbers do not lie,” Paul mentioned at a press convention concerning the struggle on Wednesday. “Folks wish to see this and that is an important achievement. … It is a assertion that we had the biggest stay gate exterior of Vegas in American boxing historical past.”
Tickets for Friday’s struggle vary on StubHub from about $58 to $1,500. MVP has additionally offered costlier packages, together with a $2 million VIP expertise which comes with ringside seating. The promotion firm says its 375 VIP seats are formally offered out.
By comparability, Vegas’ greatest struggle in historical past befell in 2015 between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. That struggle generated greater than $72 million in tickets, in keeping with the newspaper Las Vegas Evaluation-Journal.
