Youtuber, content creator, entrepreneur, self -proclaimed face of boxing: Jake Paul became a master of reinvention during his dazzling ascent to glory and fortune. The 27 -year -old man from Cleveland, who beat the veteran heavyweight icon, Mike Tyson, in a fight of eight rounds made for Netflix on Friday, put his fame as a celebrity on the Internet in a lucrative career in combat sports. Paul, who should have a net value of $ 80 million according to the Celebrity Net Worth website, first increased in 2013, displaying short videos on the site now closed vine, collecting millions of followers and billions of views.
He then transported his talent for having created viral content on YouTube in 2014, launching his own chain which became renowned for controversies, practical jokes and hip-hop.
In 2015, he made a foray into television, by signing the Disney Channel in the Teen series “Bizaardvark”.
This relationship ended in 2017 in the middle of the growing media attention on some of Paul’s YouTube waterfalls such as set fire to furniture in an empty swimming pool in his luxury house in Los Angeles.
Paul, however, attracted wider attention when he turned hand in boxing of celebrities, a trend launched by his older brother Logan Paul who fought the English influencer KSI in an amateur competition à la carte à la carte à la Manchester in 2018.
Although ridiculed by the traditional boxing world, this fight – where Jake Paul appeared on the Undercard against the English influencer Deji Olatunji – drew the attention of sport money to have sold some 1.3 million à la carte purchases.
‘A strange’
Two years later, Jake Paul made his professional debut in a fight against English Youtuber Anesongib, appearing as part of The Undercard alongside a title of average weight of good faith.
Paul continued to fight sporadically in the years that followed, gaining respect for the counterpart of the boxing world after a defeat for the fractional decision against British Tommy Fury last year.
Paul’s success by surrendering as a legitimate boxer was motivated by the millions of followers he already has via social media, guaranteeing eye globes on the events in which he participates and by making an attractive proposal for the promoters.
“It is in a position in which most young boxers are never,” said former world champion Welter Shawn Porter, who is now working as a television analyst.
“He has hundreds of thousands to millions of people who look at him, where most Olympians, when we have our first fights 5 to 10, there is no one in the stadium, we do not have the same kind of audience.
“I think it’s essential – it’s a recruit that receives a real professional exhibition.”
Paul’s impetuous style is not for everyone, however. Press conferences promoting Friday’s fight against Tyson, Texas were invariably interrupted with blasphemies, while Paul appeared for open training on Tuesday carrying a bizarre feathered dress in the form of a rooster.
“Jake Paul is strange, but I like what he is doing for boxing,” said British combator Eddie Hearn in an interview in 2022.
“He puts the work and he is not terrible. But it will be a pleasant day when someone strikes him.”
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