(L-R) Mike Tyson, Nakisa Bidarian and Jake Paul pose onstage through the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson Boxing match press convention at Texas Dwell! 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 file books.
The battle’s promoter, Most Helpful Promotions, which is co-owned by Paul, instructed CNBC it expects greater than 70,000 folks 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 file was $9 million in gate receipts for the 2021 battle between Canelo Álvarez and Billy Joe Saunders at AT&T Stadium.
MVP stated the gate can be larger than any non-Las Vegas UFC battle, aside from Conor McGregor versus Eddie Alvarez in New York Metropolis in 2016.
Nakisa Bidarian, co-founder of MVP, instructed CNBC’s “Closing Bell” that each Tyson and Paul might be making eight figures from this battle and Taylor and Serrano will even be having file paydays for ladies’s boxing.
The battle 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 vital anticipated girls’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 house and as boxing sidesteps the pay-per-view mannequin.
“Numbers do not lie,” Paul stated Wednesday at a press convention for the battle. “Individuals need to see this and that is an incredible accomplishment. … This can be a assertion that we had the largest dwell gate exterior of Vegas in U.S. boxing historical past.”
Tickets for the battle on Friday vary on StubHub from about $58 to $1,500. MVP has additionally bought higher-end packages, together with a $2 million VIP experience that comes with ringside seats. The promotions firm says its 375 VIP seats have formally bought out.
For comparability, Vegas’ largest battle in historical past befell in 2015 between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. That battle took in additional than $72 million in tickets, in accordance with the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
