Jake Paul thinks pay-per-view sales ‘tanked’ for Silva fight

Jake Paul’s newest battle may not be a PPV money cow … not less than in accordance with Jake Paul.

“The pre-buys have been going loopy,” Paul mentioned on a recent episode of IMPAULSIVE. “Up, up, up. And on Wednesday, when the information got here out about Anderson saying that he bought knocked out or no matter, and the battle was in jeopardy, and all this press got here out, the pre-buys tanked all the best way down. Most of the people sees that and is like, ‘Oh, it’s not taking place.’ Tommy (Fury) pulled out, Hasim (Rahman Jr.) pulled out, ‘Oh, Jake f*cking Paul can’t get an occasion collectively. That is accomplished.’ It killed ticket gross sales. Increase, increase, increase, we’re nonetheless promoting tickets that day. All the things went to zero. …

“I believe it’s going to most likely go round 200 to 300K, which is sort of upsetting.”

Paul thinks the PPV buys tanked as a consequence of feedback that Silva made to MMA Weekly about being “knocked out” twice. These feedback have been made throughout a pre-fight presser greater than a month earlier than the bout and Silva mentioned he meant “knocked down.”

Paul additionally cited the time the battle occurred as a significant dent to the PPV buys.

“Halloween, World Collection, Sunday soccer – that is the worst time within the 12 months to battle,” Paul mentioned. “However guess what: I needed to battle. All my fights any further can be in the summertime. There’s no sports activities. There’s like this excellent hole in July, early August the place there’s no sports activities. And by the best way, all my different fights have been throughout COVID when nobody had something to do and something to observe. … I needed to battle this 12 months. I simply needed to get it f*cking accomplished. I’m sick and uninterested in ready round.”

No official PPV numbers have been launched but.

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