{"id":462037,"date":"2022-11-02T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=462037"},"modified":"2022-11-02T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T14:50:00","slug":"jake-paul-speculates-on-why-his-fight-with-anderson-silva-tanked-i-lost-like-millions-of-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/boxing-news\/jake-paul-speculates-on-why-his-fight-with-anderson-silva-tanked-i-lost-like-millions-of-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul speculates on why his fight with Anderson Silva “tanked”: “I lost like millions of dollars”"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a tough week for Jake Paul. Despite beating Anderson Silva<\/a> in their boxing bout, the YouTuber turned combat sports superstar had to deal with a lot of people calling the win fake.<\/a> And now, to add insult to injury, it looks like the Paul vs. Silva event under-performed sales wise in both tickets and pay-per-view buys.<\/p>\n

In a new interview on his brother Logan Paul’s ImPaulsive<\/em> podcast,<\/a> Jake didn’t mince words about the ‘upsetting’ metrics coming out following the biggest win of his career.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s weird,” Paul said. “Halloween, World Series, Sunday football … this is the worst time of the year to fight. But guess what, I had to fight. All my fights from now on will be in the summer. There\u2019s no sports. There\u2019s like this perfect gap in July, early August where there\u2019s no sports. And by the way, all of my other fights were during COVID, when no one had anything to do, anything to watch.”<\/p>\n

“I had to fight this year. I had to get it f***ing done, bro. I\u2019m sick and tired of waiting around. Not only did I make zero, I lost like millions of dollars just running a goddamn organization with 15 employees.”<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t know [how many PPVs were sold],” he said when asked by Logan. “I think it\u2019ll probably go around like 200 to 300,000, really, which is kind of upsetting.”<\/p>\n