Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson SMASHES ticket sales record as Netflix bout rakes in eye-watering sum from 70,000 crowd
JAKE PAUL and Mike Tyson have raked in over £14MILLION ($17.8 MILLION) in ticket sales alone – the highest numbers outside of Las Vegas.
The YouTuber-turned-boxer and heavyweight icon controversially clash at the AT&T Stadium – home of the Dallas Cowboys.
And Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions say a crowd of 70,000 are expected to fill up the NFL venue.
A huge $17.8m (£14.4m) has been totalled from ticket receipts alone.
That smashes the $9m (£7.1m) Canelo Alvarez, 34, did for his 2021 win over Billy Joe Saunders, 35, in the same stadium.
Paul, 27, and Tyson, 58, brought in the largest gate record outside of boxing’s capital of Nevada.
Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao broke the all-time record in 2015 with $72m (£57m).
The last time Tyson was in a ring was in 2020 for an exhibition bout with Roy Jones Jr, which proved to be nothing more than a glorified spar.
His career officially came to a sad close in 2005 when he quit on his stool and threw the towel in on his boxing career.
But he is back to face Paul – over 30 years younger – in what will be Netflix’s first move into live boxing.
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The fight is scheduled for eight rounds of two-minutes – opposed to the usual three – with bigger 14oz gloves opposed to 10oz.
And despite the scrutiny surrounding the showdown – Paul claimed the proof is in the pudding as fans flocked to buy tickets.
He said: “Biggest live gate in US boxing history outside Las Vegas. Numbers don’t lie. People want to see this and that’s an amazing accomplishment.”