(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 struggle’s promoter, Most Helpful Promotions, which is co-owned by Paul, advised CNBC it expects greater than 70,000 folks to be in attendance to the Friday evening 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 outdoors of Nevada. The earlier file was $9 million in gate receipts for the 2021 struggle between Canelo Álvarez and Billy Joe Saunders at AT&T Stadium.
MVP stated the gate can be larger than any non-Las Vegas UFC struggle, 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 can be making eight figures from this struggle and Taylor and Serrano may also be having file paydays for girls’s boxing.
The struggle 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 may also function 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 upward of 283 million paid memberships in additional than 190 international locations. The bout may also be a check 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 struggle. “Individuals need to see this and that is a tremendous accomplishment. … This can be a assertion that we had the largest stay gate outdoors of Vegas in U.S. boxing historical past.”
Tickets for the struggle on Friday vary on StubHub from about $58 to $1,500. MVP has additionally bought 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 bought out.
For comparability, Vegas’ greatest struggle in historical past occurred in 2015 between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. That struggle took in additional than $72 million in tickets, based on the Las Vegas Overview-Journal.
