How much did Mike Tyson make fighting Jake Paul on Netflix?

Child prima turned YouTuber turned nonrecreational boxer Jake Paul punched his mode to triumph implicit heavyweight champion Mike Tyson successful a arguable combat beamed astir the satellite connected Netflix connected Friday.

Tyson stepped into the ringing for his archetypal nonrecreational fight since his decision to Kevin McBride successful June 2005 to look Paul successful beforehand of 70,000 fans astatine the AT&T Stadium successful Dallas.

Paul, 27, won the combat by unanimous determination implicit 58-year-old Tyson, arsenic boos rang out from the crowd.

How overmuch volition Mike Tyson and Jake Paul gain from their fight?

At a property league connected Thursday, Paul revealed helium is making $40 million (£31.5m) from his mega-fight with Tyson.

Meanwhile, Tyson is expected to gain importantly little than his 27-year-old opponent, with a figure of $20m (£15.7m) quoted by sources adjacent to the erstwhile satellite heavyweight champion.

‘This combat is not going to alteration my beingness financially,’ Tyson told SPORTbible this week.

‘If I did it for free, it’s not going to alteration my life. My woman is perpetually telling me, ‘You bash not request to bash this fight’. This is what I privation to do, this is me. I’m seeking my glory.’

Meanwhile, boxing promoter Eddie Hearn claims Tyson is the ‘greatest illustration of a combatant that’s been abused’ successful effect to the 58-year-old’s fiscal difficulties during his career.

In 2003, Tyson filed for bankruptcy contempt earning astir $300m (£186m) during his vocation to date, which included £15m unsocial for his satellite rubric combat against Lennox Lewis 14 months earlier.

When asked however overmuch helium expects Tyson to marque from his combat with Paul, Hearn said connected the PBD Podcast: ‘It’s not a pay-per-view fight, it’s rather interesting, it’s subscription lone connected Netflix which is great, it’s going to bash immense numbers. I would accidental $10m (£7.8m).

‘A batch of fighters person been. The top illustration of a combatant that’s been misrepresented and abused is Mike Tyson.

‘The wealth that was generated successful his career, the world is astir apt 5 years agone helium was retired of money, he’s really had a bully tally present doing assorted bits and pieces.

‘But however tin you marque hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars and that’s a precise communal theme, peculiarly with fighters successful the 80s. Things person changed now.’

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