Muhammad Ali's daughter says boxing legend would have been 'mortified' about Tyson-Paul fight

The girl of the precocious Muhammad Ali believes her begetter would person been 'mortified' to spot what a 58-year-old Mike Tyson earned to suffer to Jake Paul connected Friday successful Texas.

Although Tyson has declined to corroborate immoderate figure, USA Today antecedently reported he'd beryllium getting thing successful the scope of 20 cardinal for warring 2 eight-minute rounds. Paul, meanwhile, reportedly made $40 cardinal to bushed a marijuana salesman approaching his 60th birthday.

'Boxers didn't marque money, similar you know, Tyson's making,' Rasheda Ali Walsh told Fox News' Neil Cavuto. 'And daddy would person been excited helium made that benignant of money.'

Well, helium would person been excited to a point, she explained.

'Daddy would person been mortified,' she continued. 'Because backmost then, boxers didn't truly marque that much. They were warring for their lives, and I deliberation arsenic my dada started to marque boxing much entertaining, that's erstwhile radical came connected committee and however boxers started to, aft my dad, marque a batch of money.' 

Ali's biggest purse came astatine the extremity of his vocation erstwhile helium took location $7.9 cardinal for his decision to Larry Holmes successful 1980. Ali would combat lone erstwhile more, losing successful 1981 to Trevor Berbick, who would spell connected to beryllium knocked retired by a young Tyson 5 years later.

Although helium was famously atrocious with money, Ali made a reported $57 cardinal successful purse wealth implicit his Hall-of-Fame career.

Since Friday's fight, promoters revealed Tyson - Paul 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 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, revealed determination were 70,000 attendees astatine the location of the Dallas Cowboys connected Friday. In total, the venue has a capableness of 80,000.

Although much information is inactive expected to beryllium released aboriginal this week, the lawsuit is believed to beryllium a grounds nighttime for Netflix. An mean of 60 cardinal households ticker the main lawsuit live, with arsenic galore arsenic 65 cardinal watching astatine 1 time, according to MVP.

Additionally, Katie Taylor 's arguable triumph implicit Amanda Serrano had astir 50 cardinal households successful its audience, MVP revealed.

The viewership numbers are adjacent much awesome considering the method issues that plagued Friday's livestream.