Jake Paul will take on Tyron Woodley in a highly anticipated professional boxing bout on August 29th. Fans will be in attendance to witness this boxing spectacle. This boxing match will take place in the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse Arena in Cleveland.
Speaking about the arena and fans, the tickets for the Jake Paul vs Tyron Woodley fight went on sale on July 22. Leading up to the bout, Jake Paul has revealed the estimated number of ticket sales in a video on his Youtube channel.
The Problem Child plugged his fight by calling out everyone in Cleveland to support him by attending his fight. Paul said: “We sold out the 10 dollar tickets, how many tickets do we have left now?” His friend Jon responded by claiming that they are running out of tickets.
Later Jake revealed that “I feel like every person says when they doing an event but these tickets are actually running out. I think we’re almost to 10,000 tickets sold which is an amazing accomplishment.” This is indeed a big achievement if Jake Paul’s claims regarding ticket sales are true.
Moreover, the announcements of the two new fights that will feature Tommy Fury and Daniel Dubois in the undercard will make this event more entertaining. Therefore it is needless to say that the tickets for the event will sell out rapidly after these superstar additions.
Fight Purses of Jake Paul and Tyron Woodley
The official fight purses of Jake Paul and Tyron Woodley are not disclosed yet. However, Woodley’s manager has given an estimation regarding the former UFC welterweight champion’s fight purse for the Showtime event.
Malki Kawa revealed that Woodley will walk away with a multi-million payday. Moreover, he will get a cut of the pay per view and his manager has confirmed that Tyron’s base guarantee is in millions. Therefore Tyron Woodley will earn his highest payday against Jake Paul on August 29.
On the other hand, there are no hints regarding the fight purse of the Problem Child. Jake’s official purse for the Ben Askren fight was $690,000. As a result, by comparing Jake’s previous fight purse one can assume that he will make more than a million to step in the ring this time around.
Pay Per View Price for the Jake Paul vs Tyron Woodley event
A week ago, Showtime Sports President announced the price for Jake Paul vs Tyron Woodley PPV in an interview with MMA Fighting. Stephen Espinoza confirmed that the price for the PPV event is $59.99.
Espinoza justified the price tag of the pay per view by commenting “That reflects a couple of things. It’s in the ballpark of where similar fights have been. It is at a point below a lot of other higher-priced PPVs, but in particular, on this one, I think you’ve got a full boxing card of exciting young fighters. That was the key.”
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