He started as the Disney kid turned annoying YouTuber, fair enough. But wake up – that was six years and 11 pro fights ago.
Jake Paul hasn’t posted a prank video in half a decade.
What he has done is sell 80,000 tickets to watch him fight 58-year-old Mike Tyson, outdraw Canelo in multiple markets, and force traditional promoters to copy his playbook.
Legacy fighters spend twenty years building a name then hand the keys to Matchroom or PBC and pray for a date.
Stop Calling Jake Paul a “YouTuber” – He’s a Better Promoter Than 90% of Legacy Fighters
Jake owns the car, the racetrack, the ticket booth, and the hot-dog stand.
He turned boxing into appointment viewing for an entire generation that previously didn’t know a jab from a Java update.
You can hate the opponents all you want – the business brain is generational.
He’s not a fighter-promoter hybrid — he’s a full-blown mogul who just happens to knock people out on the side.
Paul returns soon as part of a boxing December for boxing.
