Paul, Tyson battle breaks document for largest non-Vegas boxing gate

The extremely anticipated boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson has already secured its place within the document books.

The battle’s promoter, Most Useful Promotions, which is co-owned by Paul, advised CNBC it expects greater than 70,000 folks to be in attendance to the Friday evening bout at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The Dallas Cowboys’ stadium has a seating capability of 80,000.

The gate receipts alone have introduced in $17.8 million in income, the promoter mentioned.

That makes it the largest boxing gate in historical past exterior of Nevada. The earlier document was $9 million in gate receipts for the 2021 battle between Canelo Álvarez and Billy Joe Saunders at AT&T Stadium.

MVP mentioned the gate can also be larger than any non-Las Vegas UFC battle, aside from Conor McGregor versus Eddie Alvarez in New York Metropolis in 2016.

Nakisa Bidarian, co-founder of MVP, advised CNBC’s “Closing Bell” that each Tyson and Paul might be making eight figures from this battle and Taylor and Serrano may even be having document paydays for girls’s boxing.

The battle between Paul, a 27-year-old YouTube influencer-turned-boxer and Tyson, a 58-year-old boxing legend, will air Friday at 8 p.m. ET on Netflix, free to subscribers.

The occasion may even characteristic one of the vital anticipated ladies’s boxing rematches in historical past: undisputed tremendous light-weight champion Katie Taylor versus unified featherweight champion Amanda Serrano.

Netflix has upward of 283 million paid memberships in additional than 190 international locations. The bout may even be a check for the streamer because it ventures deeper into the sports activities house and as boxing sidesteps the pay-per-view mannequin.

“Numbers do not lie,” Paul mentioned Wednesday at a press convention for the battle. “Folks need to see this and that is an incredible accomplishment. … It is a assertion that we had the largest reside gate exterior of Vegas in U.S. boxing historical past.”

Tickets for the battle on Friday vary on StubHub from about $58 to $1,500. MVP has additionally bought higher-end packages, together with a $2 million VIP expertise that comes with ringside seats. The promotions firm says its 375 VIP seats have formally bought out.

For comparability, Vegas’ largest battle in historical past came about in 2015 between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao. That battle took in additional than $72 million in tickets, based on the Las Vegas Overview-Journal.