Jake Paul, Mike Tyson fight breaks record for biggest boxing gate outside of Las Vegas
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The extremely anticipated boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson has already secured its map within the yarn books.
The fight’s promoter, Most Treasured Promotions, which is co-owned by Paul, told CNBC it expects extra 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 ability of 80,000.
The gate receipts alone hang brought in $17.8 million in earnings, the promoter talked about.
That makes it the ultimate boxing gate in historical previous outdoors of Nevada. The old yarn was $9 million in gate receipts for the 2021 fight between Canelo Álvarez and Billy Joe Saunders at AT&T Stadium.
MVP talked about the gate also can be elevated than any non-Las Vegas UFC fight, diversified than Conor McGregor versus Eddie Alvarez in Fresh York Metropolis in 2016.
The fight between Paul, a 27-year-extinct YouTube influencer-grew to change into-boxer and Tyson, a 58-year-extinct boxing story, will air Friday at 8 p.m. ET on Netflix, free to subscribers.
The tournament can even characteristic one among the most anticipated females’s boxing rematches in historical previous: undisputed enormous lightweight champion Katie Taylor versus unified featherweight champion Amanda Serrano.
Netflix has upward of 283 million paid memberships in extra than 190 countries. The bout may per chance presumably also be a check for the streamer because it ventures deeper into the sports activities map and as boxing sidesteps the pay-per-watch mannequin.
“Numbers don’t lie,” Paul talked about Wednesday at a press convention for the fight. “Folks are attempting to seem at this and that’s an incredible accomplishment. … This is an announcement that we had the ultimate are dwelling gate outdoors of Vegas in U.S. boxing historical previous.”
Tickets for the fight on Friday vary on StubHub from about $58 to $1,500. MVP has also sold elevated-discontinue programs, including a $2 million VIP skills that includes ringside seats. The promotions firm says its 375 VIP seats hang formally sold out.
For comparison, Vegas’ ultimate fight in historical previous took map in 2015 between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. That fight took in extra than $72 million in tickets, in accordance with the Las Vegas Review-Journal.