The American actor and influencer Jake Paul should receive 40 million dollars after the boxing match against the legendary Mike Tyson, BTA reported.< /p>

Jake Paul beat boxing legend Mike Tyson by unanimous decision to win a heavyweight battle between generations that failed to live up to its huge hype. The eight-round bout, which took place at the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T stadium; in Arlington, Texas, was streamed live on Netflix.

The fight was originally supposed to take place on July 20 in Washington, but was postponed due to Tyson’s health problems. The match was declared official, and its result will be included in the statistics of the boxers. The rules were slightly different from the traditional ones: the rounds were not of 3 minutes, but of 2, and the gloves were lighter in weight.

For this fight, Paul should receive 40 million dollars, Tyson – 20 million.

The 27-year-old Paul earned his 11th win in the professional ring (7 by knockout) and has one defeat. For the first time, the blogger won against an opponent who was a world champion. Before that, he had faced only three opponents who are professional boxers, losing to one of them – the brother of the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champion, Britain’s Tyson Fury – Tommy Fury.

Jame Paul has been in the professional ring since January 2020. The American is known primarily as a blogger and actor. Before the social network Vine was shut down, it had amassed an audience of five million subscribers. Several times he takes places in the top three of various rankings of the highest paid people on the Internet, and in a year he earns more than 20 million dollars in various online platforms.

The 58-year-old Tyson suffered the seventh loss of his career, in which he also has 50 victories (44 by knockout). He entered the ring for the first time in an official fight since 2005, when he retired after two consecutive defeats. Since then, the American has had two exhibition fights – with South African Corey Sanders in 2006 (victory by decision) and with Roy Jones Jr. in 2020 (draw).

Tyson became the absolute world champion in heavyweight and was the holder of the belts of the World Boxing Council, the World Boxing Association and the International Boxing Federation.

He holds many records, including becoming the youngest world heavyweight champion, the youngest absolute world champion, the first and only absolute world champion to win three of the most prestigious titles in a row, and was the highest paid boxer in history (before Floyd Mayweather), defended his title of absolute world champion six times. He has been inducted into various boxing halls of fame and the Guinness Book of World Records.