Jake Paul blames Anderson Silva for flopping PPV buys: ”It killed ticket sales”

UFC veteran Anderson Silva and YouTuber turned pro boxer Jake Paul. Photo: Instagram (@spiderandersonsilva) / Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports

Former YouTube star, now pro boxer, Jake ” The Problem Child” Paul faced MMA legend Anderson Silva in an eight-round boxing bout last Saturday.

During fight week, Silva, accidently or not, told the press that he’d been knocked out twice during sparring ahead of the fight.

Paul recently claimed that Anderson’s comment affected the fight’s PPV sales negatively.

“The pre-buys were going crazy, up, up, up. And then Wednesday, when the news came out about Anderson saying he got knocked out or whatever, and the fight was in jeopardy in all this press came out, the pre-buys tanked all the way down,” Paul said.

“The general public sees that and is like oh it’s not happening. Tommy pulled out, Hasim pulled out, Jake Fucking Paul can’t get another event together, this is done. It killed ticket sales…everything went to zero.” (Transcription via MMA News)

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Jake Paul will only fight in the summers from now on

At the moment, the PPV numbers are yet to be revealed. Howver, Jake Paul are tired of bad PPV sales and claimed that he will only fight when there are no other big sports events going on.

”All my fights from now on will be in the summer, there’s no sports,” Paul said. “There’s like this perfect gap in July/early August where there’s no sports.”

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