(L-R) Mike Tyson, Nakisa Bidarian and Jake Paul airs onstage during the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson Boxing lucifer property league astatine Texas Live! successful Arlington, Texas, connected May 16, 2024.
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The highly anticipated boxing match betwixt Jake Paul and Mike Tyson has already secured its spot successful the grounds books.
The fight's promoter, Most Valuable Promotions, which is co-owned by Paul, told CNBC it expects much than 70,000 radical to beryllium successful attendance to the Friday nighttime bout astatine AT&T Stadium successful Arlington, Texas. The Dallas Cowboys' stadium has a seating capableness of 80,000.
The gross receipts unsocial person brought successful $17.8 cardinal successful revenue, the promoter said.
That makes it the biggest boxing gross successful past extracurricular of Nevada. The erstwhile grounds was $9 cardinal successful gross receipts for the 2021 combat betwixt Canelo Álvarez and Billy Joe Saunders astatine AT&T Stadium.
MVP said the gross is besides higher than immoderate non-Las Vegas UFC fight, different than Conor McGregor versus Eddie Alvarez successful New York City successful 2016.
The combat betwixt Paul, a 27-year-old YouTube influencer-turned-boxer and Tyson, a 58-year-old boxing legend, volition aerial Friday astatine 8 p.m. ET connected Netflix, escaped to subscribers.
The lawsuit volition besides diagnostic 1 of the astir anticipated women's boxing rematches successful history: undisputed ace lightweight champion Katie Taylor versus unified featherweight champion Amanda Serrano.
Netflix has upward of 283 cardinal paid memberships successful much than 190 countries. The bout volition besides beryllium a trial for the streamer arsenic it ventures deeper into the sports abstraction and arsenic boxing sidesteps the pay-per-view model.
"Numbers don't lie," Paul said Wednesday astatine a property league for the fight. "People privation to spot this and that's an astonishing accomplishment. … This is simply a connection that we had the biggest unrecorded gross extracurricular of Vegas successful U.S. boxing history."
Tickets for the combat connected Friday scope connected StubHub from astir $58 to $1,500. MVP has besides sold higher-end packages, including a $2 cardinal VIP experience that comes with ringside seats. The promotions institution says its 375 VIP seats person officially sold out.
For comparison, Vegas' biggest combat successful past took spot successful 2015 betwixt Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. That combat took successful much than $72 cardinal successful tickets, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
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