Jake Paul vs Tommy Fury: The fight for the freedom of a boxer and a self-adjoint star
Jake Paul and Tommy Fury have bad blood and will be fighting on Sunday, making it one of the most anticipated fights of the year.
The pre-fight press conference was full of barbs, with Fury predicting him to defeat Paul in four rounds and Paul saying he is there to “Silence the Critics.”
The card will get underway at 2 p.m. ET (10 p.m. local time), with the eight-round cruiserweight bout scheduled to start at about 5 p.m. ET (1 a.m. local time).
He has a strong boxing heritage. A career in the sport was always likely to happen as the younger brother of Tyson and son of a former fighter.
Jake Paul was beaten in a boxing match in Saudi Arabia on Sunday night by professional boxer-turned reality TV star Tommy Fury in a split decision.
At the end of the day, it is a big event, since one man is a star on the internet and the other man is a legit boxer and people want to see Paul go up against one.
Ever since the first fights involving YouTube stars KSI and Joe Weller back in 2017, people from all walks of life – from TikTok to music – have slipped on the gloves and stepped into the ring, with the exhibition demographic of the sport growing rapidly.
Carl Frampton said that at the beginning he didn’t like the event, but after he started to understand the appeal, he decided that it was worth it.
“At the very, very start, I was kind of like: ‘What is this?’ Frampton said it did annoy him at the start that the guys were getting so much attention.
The World Boxing Council’s Special Diriyah Belt: The Case of Tommy Fury in a Supermight to Win the World Title
The winner of the fight will receive a top 40 ranking in the cruiserweight division according to the World Boxing Council.
Many bouts of boxing have previously lacked legitimacy because of this decision, but it shows that it is a correct one.
The World Bank has created a special belt. The winner of the fight will receive the Diriyah belt, with the WBC saying that it supports the growth of our sport by attracting thousands of new viewers.
Two of the three judges scored the fight 76- 73 for Fury, while the third gave the contest to Paul at the end of the eight-round bout.
In his first main event, at the age of 23, he came through and had the world on his shoulders. The fight is for a world title. I trained so hard for this. This was my fate.
Millions of fans were expected to tune into the fight, the latest pay-per-view bout involving a YouTuber to generate a social media buzz as promoters played up the bad blood between the two fighters. And just like a genuine world title fight, there were plenty of stars ringside, including former champ Mike Tyson, soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo and comedian Kevin Hart.
Both had points deducted – Paul in the fifth for pushing his opponent’s head down while clinching and Fury in the sixth for too much clinching, a defensive tactic that’s often only allowed for short periods of time.
Don’t judge me by my wins or losses, Tommy won, so all respect to him. I’ll come back, I thought I deserve that rematch, it was a great fight, a close fight,” Paul said after the fight.