The Polarizing Event That Is Gervonta Davis vs Jake Paul

‘Tank’ Davis vs Jake Paul is one of those events in the sport of boxing that grabs attention outside of the sport worldwide to people that don’t usually even watch sport.

Let alone boxing.

Boxing, especially lately, has been able to draw mass audiences on new streaming giant platforms like Netflix and DAZN through outside the box type fights.

More events than fights.

Exhibitions sometimes with hybrid rules that allow aspects of a pro boxing match within the bouts, but more often than not, not official professional boxing matches.

This falls into this category between two young men from the US with already large but very different fan bases to one another.

Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis with the legit boxing fan audience whereas Paul with the more wider net of everything from pop culture to those wishing to see his demise.

Both largely US audiences first and foremost, but worldwide secondly.

Davis vs Jake Paul – Wild Even By Boxing’s Standards

The fight itself is apparently going to allow for knockouts but the sheer size difference in the bout with Davis being less than a lightweight basically and Paul sometimes fighting at
heavyweight, evens things up a bit.

On paper Davis should flatten him.

But the size difference and weight difference is a big factor.

Maybe that is why it such a polarizing event not just in boxing but in wider society as well — the sheer car crash appeal of it.

No match like that between such wide differences in weight classes has happened really ever in boxing.

Those in boxing don’t know what to make of it but the fact its on the biggest streaming platform in the world in Netflix, makes it understandable why Davis couldn’t turn it down.

A lot of dough for relatively not much effort.

For Paul the event is in keeping with his seemingly indestructible ability to generate hype in large crossover events in the sweet science.

Many will tune in but how many is the question.