Child star turned YouTuber turned professional boxer Jake Paul punched his way to victory over heavyweight champion Mike Tyson in a controversial fight beamed around the world on Netflix on Friday.
Tyson stepped into the ring for his first professional fight since his defeat to Kevin McBride in June 2005 to face Paul in front of 70,000 fans at the AT&T Stadium in Dallas.
Paul, 27, won the fight by unanimous decision over 58-year-old Tyson, as boos rang out from the crowd.
How much will Mike Tyson and Jake Paul earn from their fight?
At a press conference on Thursday, Paul revealed he is making .
Meanwhile, Tyson is expected to earn significantly less than his 27-year-old opponent, with a quoted by sources close to the former world heavyweight champion.
‘This fight is not going to change my life financially,’ Tyson told SPORTbible this week.
‘If I did it for free, it’s not going to change my life. My wife is constantly telling me, ‘You do not need to do this fight’. This is what I want to do, this is me. I’m seeking my glory.’
Meanwhile, boxing promoter Eddie Hearn claims Tyson is the ‘greatest example of a fighter that’s been abused’ in response to the 58-year-old’s financial difficulties during his career.
In 2003, Tyson filed for bankruptcy despite earning around $300m (£186m) during his career to date, which included £15m alone for his world title fight against Lennox Lewis 14 months earlier.
When asked how much he expects Tyson to make from his fight with Paul, Hearn said on the PBD Podcast: ‘It’s not a pay-per-view fight, it’s quite interesting, it’s subscription only on Netflix which is great, it’s going to do huge numbers. I would say $10m (£7.8m).
‘A lot of fighters have been. The greatest example of a fighter that’s been misrepresented and abused is Mike Tyson.
‘The money that was generated in his career, the reality is probably five years ago he was out of money, he’s actually had a good run now doing various bits and pieces.
‘But how can you make hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars and that’s a very common theme, particularly with fighters in the 80s. Things have changed now.’
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