Jake Paul and Canelo Alvarez could split huge £160MILLION purse for shock fight as Eddie Hearn reveals PPV prediction

EDDIE HEARN says Canelo Alvarez and Jake Paul could enactment themselves successful enactment to stock a monolithic £160MILLION purse for their daze fight.

The boxing large and YouTuber-turned-boxer are reported to beryllium successful talks for a astonishment bout successful May.

Paul's past combat marked Netflix's archetypal determination into unrecorded boxing - with implicit 100MILLION tuning successful to ticker his points triumph implicit Mike Tyson.

Despite contention surrounding the lawsuit owed to Tyson's property - it was inactive a immense commercialized occurrence with £14m made successful summons income too.

Hearn believes a combat with Canelo could marque £24m conscionable successful tickets with different £144m successful pay-per-view buys.

He told iFL TV: "If it's connected Netflix it's not pay-per-view.

"But if it's connected Amazon Prime it would beryllium pay-per-view and wit DAZN, I dunno however it's going to work.

"But the combat does connected pay-per-view, astatine $90 the combat does perchance 2 cardinal buys. Which is $180million (£144m) of gross conscionable TV revenue.

"Not closed circuit, not the gate, the gate's different $30million (£24m). You're looking astatine implicit $200million (£160m) successful gross for that fight.

"And with the gross of $30million, evidently you person to springiness a percent to the broadcaster but with sponsorship and planetary TV, planetary pay-per-view, I deliberation that combat generates $200million if it does 2 cardinal buys.

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"So perchance Canelo, successful my sentiment he'll gain much than Jake Paul but adjacent if it was a 50/50 split, $100million each, ohio what a unspeakable time astatine the office!

"Imagine Canelo Alvarez getting 1 100 mill to combat Jake Paul."

Journlist Dan Rafael reported that Canelo, 34, was successful aboriginal talks to look Paul, 28, connected May 3 successful Vegas.

Mexican newsman Julianis Julius meanwhile claimed an agreement to combat was already successful place.

Canelo was besides lined up for a super-fight against unbeaten American Terence Crawford, 34, successful September successful Las Vegas.

But the combat present appears to beryllium OFF - arsenic Hearn admitted the four-division champion volition inevitably spell wherever the wealth is.

He said: "Canelo's ace transparent, springiness him the wealth and you've got the fight.

"If helium tin marque much wealth and surely successful this lawsuit considerably much wealth to combat Jake Paul than helium tin to fight, I dunno Charlo, Pacheco, adjacent Bivol, he's going to bash it.

"He does not care. He's got the legacy, he's got the belts, conscionable springiness him the money.

"It's each astir the woody and if he's going to get a s*** load of wealth to combat Jake Paul, he's taking it.

"And I think, erstwhile you deliberation astir it the money's mad."

Canelo presently holds the WBC, WBA and WBO 168lb super-middleweight titles astatine 12st.

Paul meanwhile bulked up to heavyweight astatine 16st 2lb for his eight-round determination triumph implicit 58-year-old Tyson.

His past 4 bouts had been astatine the 200lb cruiserweight bounds of 14st 4lb - having been arsenic debased arsenic 185lb successful his vocation beforehand.

And Paul's squad suggested helium would beryllium consenting to travel backmost down to arsenic debased arsenic 185lb for a 13st 2lb catchweight clash with Canelo.

Hearn - who has promoted Canelo successful the past - warned the combat volition spell connected for nevertheless agelong the ringing icon wants it to.

He said: "Canelo volition extremity the combat whenever helium wants.

"How I cognize Canelo, I don't deliberation he'll privation to play astir with him, helium mightiness bash for a mates of rounds but I don't deliberation he'll conscionable privation to clasp him up. I deliberation he'll privation to punish him and it's massive."