Shaq, Rob Gronkowski, and Charlize Theron highlight celebrity row at Mike Tyson-Jake Paul bout in Texas

All the stars made their mode down to the Lone Star State up of 1 of the astir highly anticipated boxing matches of the twelvemonth arsenic Mike Tyson is acceptable to combat Jake Paul.

The bout that has been successful the works for a fig of months and featured delays owed to the wellness of Tyson yet came to beryllium connected Friday. 

Various stars from the worlds of sports, entertainment, and much traveled to AT&T Stadium successful Arlington - extracurricular of Dallas - arsenic implicit 70,000 packed successful to spot the fight.

Among the astir notable celebrities determination were Basketball Hall of Famer and multiple-time NBA champion Shaquille O'Neal - dressed successful head-to-toe black.

Sitting adjacent him astatine the lawsuit was four-time Super Bowl champion choky extremity Rob Gronkowski, seen wearing a achromatic jacket.

Before the lawsuit began, Shaq was photographed backstage with Academy Award winning South African histrion Charlize Theron.

Other celebrities attending the bout included exemplary and tv property Amber Rose - dressed successful an elegant achromatic ensemble.

Another prima of the surface sat for the combat was Shang-Chi prima Simu Liu - who was pictured adjacent to Netflix's CCO Bela Bajaria.

Jake's brother, chap YouTuber and WWE wrestling superstar Logan Paul was besides successful attendance - and adjacent walked with his member to the ring.

He wasn't the lone WWE superstar successful attendance, with WWE Hall of Famer Titus O'Neil seen photographed alongside Shaq backstage.

Another personage photographed with Shaq was Transformers histrion Josh Duhamel.

There were besides a fig of comedians, including Roastmaster Jeff Ross and Tom Segura - who was photographed alongside erstwhile NFL cornerback Adam 'Pac Man' Jones.

While those successful the ringing were capable to ticker the combat without issue, the aforesaid could not beryllium said for those viewing from home.

According to Downdetector, which tracks online outages, much than 80,000 Netflix customers were experiencing issues by 10:35pm New York clip connected Friday. 

'Netflix is scamming everyone into watching a combat they person nary thought however to enactment technically,' 1 professional wrote connected X. 

'Well, look astatine the agleam side,' 1 idiosyncratic joked. 'Nothing similar Netflix bringing the state backmost unneurotic aft a divisive election. Seems we’re each connected the aforesaid broadside tonight.'

But the nighttime was a occurrence for the streaming level and for Most Valuable Promotions (MVP). Prior to Friday's heavyweight bout successful Arlington, Texas, the 2 revealed that the Tyson-Paul bout generated much than $17.8 cardinal (£14.1million) 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 card has registered the highest gross of immoderate US combat sporting lawsuit extracurricular of Las Vegas.

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