Jake Paul He doesn’t expect to fight with Anderson Silva To do in huge numbers.
pee Defeat a UFC legend By unanimous decision in last Saturday’s boxing bout at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona, he even scored a knockout in the eighth round.
But the YouTube star doesn’t think the pay-per-view numbers will accurately reflect that and explain why.
“The pre-purchases were crazy,” Paul said. The last episode of IMPAULSIVE. “Upper higher higher. And on Wednesday, when news came out about Anderson said he’s out of the field or whatever, and the fight was in jeopardy, and all that press went out, and pre-purchases went down along the way. The general public sees that and they say, ‘Oh, that’s It’s not happening.” Tommy (Fiori), Hashim (Rahman Jr.), pulled out, ‘Oh, Jake is screwing around with Paul he can’t have an event together. This is over.’ Killed ticket sales. Boom, boom, boom, we still sold tickets that day. Everything went to zero. …
“I think it will probably be between 200 and 300 thousand, which is kind of an inconvenience.”
Details emerged during the week of the fight that Silva had gone out while sparring the week prior to the fight, which “Spider” later clarified. lost in translation. Paul also said the timing of the fight wasn’t ideal, as he shared the same weekend with Halloween and major sporting events.
“Halloween, the world championships, football on Sunday — that’s the worst time of the year to fight,” Paul said. “But guess what: I had to fight. All my fights from now on will be summer. No sport. There is such a perfect gap in July, early August where there is no sport. And by the way, all my other fights were during COVID when I had no Anyone anything to do and anything to watch….I had to fight this year. I just had to get it done. I’m sick and tired of waiting.”
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