The rivals will receive 60 million dollars between them.
The fees of the former absolute world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and popular blogger Jake Paul for their face-to-face fight, which will take place on the night of November 16 at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas (USA), have become known.
At a press conference before the fight, the YouTube star admitted that he would earn about 40 million dollars for the mega-fight with “Iron Mike.”
58-year-old Tyson, according to unofficial information, will receive half the fee for the fight with the 27-year-old showman – 20 million dollars. Thus, the Americans will earn 60 million dollars for both.
Note that the fight will have an official status – the result will be included in the statistics of both fighters. Its duration will be 8 rounds of two minutes. The boxers will have standard gloves and will not have head protection, knockout is allowed.
Let's add that initially Tyson and Paul were supposed to meet in the ring on July 20, but due to the deterioration of the health of “Iron Mike”, the fight postponed.
Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul: track record
Iron Mike's last official fight was in 2005, when he lost by technical knockout to Irishman Kevin McBride. Tyson has 58 fights under his belt: 50 wins (44 by knockout), 6 losses. Two more fights were declared no contest.
In November 2020, Tyson had an exhibition fight with former world champion in five weight categories Roy Jones. Fightended in a draw, although statistically the advantage was on the side of “Iron Mike”.
Jake Paul made his boxing debut in January 2020, when he defeated another blogger, Ali Eson Gib. His victims then included former NBA player Nate Robinson, former Bellator champion Ben Askren, and former UFC champion Tyron Woodley, whom Jake defeated twice.
In October 2022, Jake defeated former UFC champion Anderson Silva, and in February 2023, he suffered the only defeat of his boxing career against Tommy Fury, the younger half-brother of former world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury.
The blogger has 10 wins (7 by knockout) and one defeat. In previous fights, Paul knocked out professional American boxer Ryan Burland in the first round in March 2024, and in July, he won the sixth round ahead of schedule against former UFC fighter Mike Perry, who came out to fight instead of Tyson on short notice.