Jake Paul reacts after defeating Mike Tyson throughout their heavyweight boxing match, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Picture/Julio Cortez)
YouTuber, content material creator, entrepreneur, self-proclaimed face of boxing: Jake Paul has develop into a grasp of re-invention throughout his meteoric rise to fame and fortune.
The 27-year-old from Cleveland, who defeated veteran heavyweight icon Mike Tyson in an eight-round made-for-Netflix bout on Friday, has parlayed his fame as an web movie star right into a profitable profession in fight sports activities.
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Paul, who’s estimated to have a internet price of $80 million in line with the Superstar Internet Price web site, first rose to prominence in 2013, posting short-form movies to the now-shuttered website Vine, garnering thousands and thousands of followers and billions of views.
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He subsequently transported his knack for creating viral content material to YouTube in 2014, launching his personal channel which turned famend for controversies, sensible jokes and hip-hop.
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In 2015 he made a foray into tv, signing for the Disney Channel within the teen sequence “Bizaardvark.”
That relationship resulted in 2017 amid rising media consideration on a few of Paul’s Youtube stunts reminiscent of setting furnishings on hearth in an empty swimming pool at his luxurious house in Los Angeles.
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Paul gained wider consideration nevertheless when he turned his hand to movie star boxing, a development began by his elder brother Logan Paul who fought English influencer KSI in a pay-per-view beginner contest in Manchester in 2018.
Although ridiculed by the standard boxing world, that combat — the place Jake Paul appeared on the undercard towards English influencer Deji Olatunji — gained consideration from the game’s moneymen for promoting some 1.3 million pay-per-view buys.
‘A wierd one’
Jake Paul hits Mike Tyson throughout their heavyweight boxing match, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Picture/Julio Cortez)
Two years later, Jake Paul made his skilled debut in a combat towards English Youtuber AnEsonGib, showing as a part of the undercard alongside a bona-fide world middleweight title bout.
Paul has continued to combat sporadically within the years since, incomes grudging respect from the boxing world after a split-decision loss to Briton Tommy Fury final yr.
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Paul’s success in rebranding himself as a legit boxer has been pushed by the thousands and thousands of followers he already has by way of social media, guaranteeing eyeballs on occasions he takes half in and making him a horny proposition for promoters.
“He’s ready that the majority younger boxers are by no means in,” stated former welterweight world champion Shawn Porter, who now works as a tv analyst.
“He has tons of of hundreds to thousands and thousands of individuals watching him, the place most even Olympians, when we have now our first 5-10 fights, there’s no person within the stadium, we don’t have the identical kind of viewers.
“I believe that’s the primary factor – he’s a rookie who’s getting true skilled publicity.”
Paul’s brash type although is to not everybody’s liking. Press conferences selling Friday’s combat towards Tyson in Texas had been invariably laced with profanities, whereas Paul appeared for an open exercise on Tuesday sporting a weird feather head-dress within the type of a rooster.
“Jake Paul is an odd one, however I like what he’s doing for boxing,” British combat promoter Eddie Hearn stated in a 2022 interview.
“He’s placing the work in and he’s not horrible. But it surely’ll be a pleasing day when somebody chins him.”
