The winner of the Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson was irrelevant. Its all about the money, and dont think for a second that it was be about anything else.
As the dust settles on the highly-anticipated, made for streaming exhibition boxing match on Netflix , that happened on Saturday morning SA time, both YouTuber Paul and Tyson will be laughing all the way to the bank.
Both fighters are reportedly said to earn between 30 and 40 million each, or R545 and R726 million.
Iron Mike Tyson is undeniably one of the best heavyweight boxers of all time, but that was at the turn of the century, with the prime of his career coming during the mid 90s. Paul, in contrast is 27 and has just 11 pro fights to his name.
This trend of boxers coming out of retirement many years later for something that is nothing more than an exhibition fight, despite all the hype saying otherwise, is not looked kindly upon by the pugilist purists.
