Jake Paul’s business partner talks claims of rigged Mike Tyson fight, says Paul is boxing's 'greatest gift'

A sports icon came retired of status past Friday, starring to decibels that are seldom touched astatine a sporting event, arsenic 58-year-old Mike Tyson, successful his archetypal nonrecreational combat since 2005, battled Jake Paul successful beforehand of much than 70,000 fans astatine AT&T Stadium successful Arlingon, Texas.

But by the mediate of the fight, boo-birds rang retired successful the crowd, and with Paul winning by unanimous decision, accusations of a rigged combat ran each implicit societal media.

If you cognize Jake Paul, nary of that bothers him. He thrives disconnected the hatred and has embraced the relation of the bottommost successful boxing and life.

"He’s the ‘problem child,’ radical privation to boo him, and that’s the peculiar condiment that helium has," said Nakisa Bidarian, co-founder of Most Valuable Promotions, successful a caller interrogation with Fox News Digital.

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Bidarian and Paul co-founded MVP unneurotic 3 years ago, and their promotions person helped enactment women’s boxing connected the representation with 2 spectacles by Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano, the 2nd of which was the co-main lawsuit past week successful Arlington.

Although Bidarian admitted that the 60 cardinal households watching the combat and the largest gross extracurricular of Las Vegas ever was astir apt much due to the fact that of Tyson, helium said Paul "played a monolithic role" successful the historical event.

It was historical by conscionable astir each metric: attendance, viewers, gate, bets placed, societal media discussion. But the overwhelming absorption to the combat was that it was a disappointment.

"I don’t attraction what radical person to say. They’re ever going to person thing to say. It is what it is," Paul told Fox News Digital aft the fight.

Added Bidarian successful his interview, "The lone triumph determination was if Mike Tyson knocked retired Jake Paul, otherwise, the haters would person recovered a mode to kick nary substance what."

But with it being a Paul spectacle, determination is, erstwhile again, immoderate speculation astir the combat being rigged, fixed oregon staged.

Jake Paul, left, is announced arsenic the victor implicit Mike Tyson astatine AT&T Stadium successful Arlington, Texas, connected Nov. 15, 2024. (Al Bello/Getty Images for Netflix ©2024)

Some fans person tried to constituent retired instances successful which the erstwhile heavyweight champ could person easy knocked retired Paul with an uppercut; immoderate person said that Tyson was biting connected his gloves to support himself from going chaotic successful the ring. Some fans besides judge that determination was nary mode a boxer with conscionable 4 years of acquisition could person perchance beaten the "Baddest Man connected the Planet."

But each of those claims are BS, Bidarian said.

"In presumption of this combat specifically, I volition accidental the following: It was sanctioned by the diversion commission. Our spouse was Netflix, who is the biggest media institution successful America and is simply a nationalist entity. There was nonrecreational sports betting connected the event," Bidarian said. "So, if you were to rig specified competition, it is simply a national crime. And myself, Jake Paul, Mike Tyson, executives from Netflix would each beryllium going to jail, they would beryllium risking their full company, and we would beryllium risking our full lives to bash that. It is preposterous that radical adjacent suggest that this was successful immoderate mode thing different than a nonrecreational fight. … That was not the lawsuit successful immoderate Jake fight, fto unsocial this one."

"This was 100% existent from opening to end," helium added. "It was truthful existent that the feline had an ulcer, and we took a five-month interruption to springiness him clip to heal the ulcer to beryllium capable to execute astatine his champion level. If it was staged, wherefore did we adjacent postpone it? We could person conscionable moved guardant with the date: ‘Oh, you person an ulcer, you’re not going to deed each other. It’s going to beryllium fine.’ What are radical talking about?"

Mike Tyson and Jake Paul speech punches astatine AT&T Stadium successful Arlington, Texas, connected Nov. 15, 2024. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Even immoderate much high-profile fighters astatine the apical of their crippled person called retired Paul, including Ryan Garcia, lightweight champion Gervonta Davis, heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois and undisputed airy heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev. Bidarian said that "with the objection of one," Paul is funny successful "all" of the inquiries.

"What’s adjacent for Jake is immoderate Jake wants it to be. He is the biggest look successful each of boxing. … His extremity is to beryllium a satellite champion, truthful you’ll spot america bash things that springiness him those opportunities. And our extremity is to deliberation extracurricular the box, bash disruptive things and seizure the imagination. We did that past Friday, and we’ll proceed to bash that."

It’s nary concealed that Paul is disliked, and galore deliberation this is each conscionable a selling play. It’s nary concealed that Paul is simply a selling whiz, and immoderate of his opponents person been selected alternatively wisely. But arsenic overmuch of a businessman arsenic Paul whitethorn be, Bidarian said helium sees him "first and foremost" arsenic a boxer.

"That’s what helium dedicates anyplace from 70 to 75% of his time," Bidarian said.

At the aforesaid time, Paul puts accent connected "professional" successful the word "professional boxer."

"He is the astir nonrecreational boxer successful nonrecreational boxing. He is simply a businessman, helium conducts himself similar a business, helium shows up connected time, helium delivers each enactment you request to deliver, helium does the promo erstwhile nary 1 other wants to. …" Bidarian said. "He knows however to sell. [Dallas Cowboys owner] Jerry Jones said to Jake Paul, ‘Kid, you’re 1 of the top marketers successful each of sports.’ And that’s true. He’s 4 years into this sport, and he’s co-headlining a record-setting event."

That’s wherefore Bidarian has a alternatively beardown connection to those who don’t judge Paul is simply a superior boxer.

Jake Paul celebrates aft his triumph implicit Mike Tyson. (Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile via Getty Images)

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"Show maine different athlete, including their amateur oregon precocious schoolhouse career, who has 4 and a fractional years of acquisition that has achieved arsenic overmuch arsenic helium has achieved wrong and extracurricular of the ring," Bidarian said. "Even successful that show against Mike Tyson, who is 58, is precise unsocial for idiosyncratic who is 4 years into doing a sport. … Jake Paul has gone into the lions’ den and showed that helium outboxed a overmuch much skilled boxer successful his heyday than Jake Paul, and that’s a batch much awesome than 99% of boxers bash successful their 10th, 12th, 15th fight."

"More importantly, Jake Paul has enactment connected for this athletics similar nary jock has before," helium continued. "He’s enactment connected for the women successful this sport, he’s enactment connected for the younker successful this sport, he’s enactment his ain wealth into renovating gyms to springiness entree to young boys and girls to larn astir the athletics of boxing. He’s partnered with USA Boxing to propulsion amateur involvement successful the sport.

"He’s the top acquisition the athletics has ever seen, successful my opinion."

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