Mike Tyson-Jake Paul bettors overwhelmingly pick one man to win fight ahead of Netflix live stream

Jake Paul is technically favored to bushed Mike Tyson successful Friday's fight connected Netflix, but that doesn't needfully mean he's much fashionable with gamblers.

Despite being a -205 favourite connected FanDuel Friday morning, Paul was picked to triumph by conscionable 15 percent of the website's customers, portion Tyson received 85 percent of the action.

But portion Tyson was picked to triumph much often, the bulk of the wealth was connected Paul to win. In total, 53 percent of Friday's grip astatine FanDuel was stake connected Paul arsenic opposed to Tyson's 47 percent.

Furthermore, FanDuel tells DailyMail.com that a first-round Tyson triumph was the astir fashionable circular betting prime of the night.

Tyson-Paul has been conscionable arsenic fashionable astatine the container bureau arsenic it has with online sports books.

As revealed by Netflix and Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) anterior to Friday's heavyweight bout successful Arlington, Texas, Tyson - Paul has generated much than $17.8 cardinal astatine the gross to go boxing's biggest box-office occurrence successful the United States extracurricular of Las Vegas .

What's more, Tyson-Paul has astir doubled the erstwhile grounds successful Texas, erstwhile Mexico's Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez defeated Britain's Billy Joe Saunders astatine the aforesaid venue, AT&T Stadium, successful 2021.

And extracurricular of a 2016 UFC bout betwixt Conor McGregor and Eddie Alvarez successful New York, Friday's combat paper has registered the highest gross of immoderate US combat sporting lawsuit extracurricular of Las Vegas.

MVP, which is co-owned by Paul, expects much than 70,000 attendees astatine the location of the Dallas Cowboys . In total, the venue has a capableness of 80,000.

Despite an abundance of seats, tickets weren't cheap. Prices connected the secondary marketplace ranged from astir $60 to astir $2,000, portion MVP was besides offering a $2 cardinal VIP acquisition that see ringside seats.

Those 375 VIP seats person each been sold, according to MVP.

'Numbers don't lie,' Paul said Wednesday. 'People privation to spot this and that's an astonishing accomplishment.'

Both the 58-year-old Tyson and 27-year-old Paul are believed to beryllium making astatine slightest 8 figures from this fight, portion Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano volition besides acceptable caller highs for women's boxing with their highly anticipated rematch connected the undercard. Taylor antecedently bushed Serrano by divided determination successful 2022 astatine Madison Square Garden.

Friday's bout is sanctioned arsenic a pro combat with immoderate modifications, which has led immoderate states to prohibition gambling connected the result of Tyson-Paul. Furthermore, the 2 volition beryllium wearing 14-ounce gloves alternatively of the accustomed 10.

Paul was a -250 betting favorite, according to BetMGM.

The bout was rescheduled from the outpouring aft Tyson suffered an ulcer flareup aboard a cross-country flight. Now the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation says his carnal information meets the criteria to measurement into the ringing against Paul.