Jake Paul won the fight but lost the money in the process.
The YouTube sensation turned boxer is not expecting his fight with Anderson Silva to do huge numbers. On Saturday, Paul defeated the UFC legend by unanimous decision in their boxing match at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Ariz., even scoring a knockdown in Round 8.
Despite the impressive showing, the YouTube star doesn’t think the pay-per-view numbers did well at all. In fact, he thinks he lost million of dollars in the process.
“Halloween, World Series, Sunday football, this is the worst time of the year to fight, but guess what? I had to fight, all my fights from now on will be in the Summer when there are no sports, all my other fights were during COVID when no had anything to do or anything to watch. I had to fight this year…Not only did I make zero, I lost millions of dollars running an organization with 15 employees.”
“I think it did 200-300k which is kind of upsetting ”
Paul added that Silva admitting he got knocked down during sparring led to things heading in the wrong direction. “The Spider” later clarified that what he said was lost in translation.
“The prebuys were going crazy and on Wednesday when the news came about Anderson saying that he got knocked out and the fight was in jeopardy, and all the press came out, the prebuys tanked, all the way down. The general public sees that…it killed ticket sales, everything went to zero.”
The fight happened on the same day as a UFC event, and two other important boxing events that featured Katie Taylor and the return of Vasiliy Lomachenko.
The Paul-Silva bout generated a lot of buzzes online but may have done so much better if it happened a few weeks ago or if Paul could’ve Paul Tommy Fury instead.
