FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP through Getty Photos
A lot of the enchantment surrounding Jake Paul’s hype-fueled boxing profession wore off after his split-decision loss to Tommy Fury this previous weekend. However he’ll be laughing all the best way to the financial institution regardless.
Paul claimed that he took dwelling $30 million for the combat:
Dexerto @Dexerto
Jake Paul claims he made $30 million in opposition to Tommy Fury pic.twitter.com/6QElQK8wD3
He additionally estimated on his podcast that the combat did about 500,000 PPV buys.
“I suppose the silver lining is that the pay-per-views are off the charts,” he stated (h/t Damon Martin of MMA Preventing). “Most likely going to be the most important combat of the yr. It’ll be onerous to cope with. Possibly [Ryan] Garcia and [Gervonta] Davis. It is in all probability coming at over half one million buys. Nonetheless totaling all the pieces. So the enterprise is nice.”
Paul is the consummate showman, so it may be considerably safely assumed that he’ll estimate on the upper aspect. And the attention-grabbing query shall be whether or not he can preserve the curiosity in his boxing profession now that he is been defeated.
