By: Sean Crose
“The silver lining,” Jake Paul has mentioned on his podcast, “is the pay per views are off the fucking charts.” He’s referring, after all, to his combat final weekend, the place he suffered his first defeat on the gloved fists of Tommy Fury. “Probably going to be the biggest fight of the year,” Paul mentioned of the matchup. “It’s going to be hard to contend with, maybe Garcia-Davis.” So simply how a lot cash was Paul speaking about right here?
“It’s probably coming in over half a million buys,” he mentioned. That, if true, is an outstanding quantity by immediately’s pay per view requirements. What’s extra, it lets folks know simply how massive a draw Paul, whose fought professionally lower than ten instances, really is. “The success of their Feb. 26 PPV card,” said MMA Mania, “may have been helped by the war of words between Paul and Fury.” Sure sufficient, there appeared to be some unhealthy blood between the 2 males main as much as the bout. The proven fact that it appeared to take perpetually for the match to truly occur actually might have had one thing to do with that.
“Last night was tough,” Paul mentioned on the podcast. “Real tough. It’s so shocking, so many emotions to deal with.” Still, Paul didn’t didn’t need an excessive amount of credit score to go his opponent’s approach. “It had nothing to do with him,” Paul mentioned of the loss. “It had everything to do with me.” Paul additionally added that he felt former foe Anderson Silva, had been a stronger opponent. “He wasn’t that great at all,” he mentioned of Fury. “I think Anderson was tougher than him…he threw a lot of punches, that was his biggest thing,” (although he did admit that Fury had good energy).
“I think he’s a good kid,” Paul mentioned of Fury, who he spoke with after the match. “He seems very level headed, down to earth…we did a great job promoting it. There was a mutual respect there.” So the unhealthy blood, it appears, is gone – at the least till the rematch.
“I’m happy for him for sure,” mentioned Paul.
