January 30, 2024 – At present marks 5 years for the reason that skilled boxing debut of Jake “El Gallo” Paul (11-1, 7 KOs). Jake picked up gloves for the primary time at age 21 in 2018, and had only one novice combat beneath his belt earlier than making his professional debut in opposition to Ali Eson Gib. Since his first-round knockout victory over Gib, Jake has change into a transformative determine within the sport of boxing, reshaping its future by way of empowerment, innovation, and advocacy, shattering information at each step of the best way. Jake Paul and Most Precious Promotions (MVP) now look again on Jake’s 5 most impactful contributions which have redefined boxing over the previous 5 years:
Championing Girls’s Boxing
Jake Paul is doing extra for ladies’s boxing than every other fighter alive, championing equality, advocating for equal competitors guidelines, and offering unparalleled platforms for feminine fighters, leading to record-breaking viewership and paydays for feminine fighters.
With MVP, Jake co-promoted the historic Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano combat in 2022 as they made historical past because the first-ever ladies to headline Madison Sq. Backyard. The combat earned recognition as Sports activities Illustrated’s Battle of the Yr and The Ring’s Occasion of the Yr and was additional nominated for Occasion of the Yr by Sports activities Enterprise Journal.
Jake and MVP additionally empowered Amanda Serrano’s combat for equality in ladies’s boxing as she defended her unified titles in opposition to Danila Ramos within the first-ever ladies’s unified championship combat contested over 12, three-minute rounds, equal to any males’s championship combat, in October 2023. This marked the primary time a ladies’s combat has gone the complete 12×3, and Serrano threw a profession excessive of 1,103 punches within the bout. In honor of her trailblazing achievements inside and outdoors the ring, Serrano was awarded the Boxing Writers Affiliation of America (BWAA) Feminine Fighter of the Yr for 2023, in addition to Sports activities Illustrated’s and Boxing Scene’s 2023 Girls’s Fighter of the Yr. Forward of the occasion, Serrano and Ramos, supported by Jake and MVP, launched an announcement known as CHOICE with the help of 25 of probably the most completed feminine boxers in historical past, together with present and former boxing champions. The CHOICE assertion affirmed the pursuit of feminine fighters to attain equal pay, promotion, and aggressive alternative within the sport of boxing, advocating for the selection to combat championship fights beneath the identical 12×3 guidelines as males.
In 2023, Jake was featured on the quilt of Sports activities Illustrated’s “The 50 Most Influential Figures in Sports activities” concern, celebrated for revolutionizing the game by advocating for equitable pay and creating platforms for younger fighters, notably ladies.
In November 2024, Jake’s impression to this point culminated in placing ladies’s boxing on the largest stage conceivable with Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano 2, probably the most anticipated ladies’s boxing rematch ever, the co-main occasion of MVP’s Paul vs. Tyson. The rematch, acknowledged by ESPN, Sports activities Illustrated, and Boxing Scene because the 2024 Girls’s Battle of the Yr, grew to become the most-watched skilled ladies’s sports activities occasion in US historical past, attracting 74M reside viewers globally, 56M peak concurrent views, and 47M AMA within the US. Serrano and Taylor additionally earned report paydays, setting a brand new benchmark for pay fairness within the sport. Inside two years of signing with Jake and MVP, Shadasia Inexperienced grew to become MVP’s first home-grown world champion, successful the WBO tremendous middleweight world title over Melinda Watpool additionally on the Paul vs. Tyson card.
Jake has additional championed MVP’s latest feminine signees, Puerto Rican sensation Krystal Rosado and 2x Canadian Olympian Tamm Thibeault, as each fought three-minute rounds on MVP playing cards in statements for equality in ladies’s boxing.
Redefining World Sports activities Leisure
Since co-founding MVP in 2021, Jake has reimagined how boxing is introduced to the world as an leisure entity. In 2024, Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson grew to become the first-ever reside skilled sports activities occasion on Netflix, breaking away from the standard pay-per-view (PPV) mannequin in favor of streaming the combat without spending a dime to the platform’s then-283+ million world subscribers. The combat set information because the most-streamed sporting occasion in historical past, reaching 108 million reside viewers and over 65 million peak concurrent streams globally, with over 64 million AMA within the US. Along with Mike Tyson, Jake Paul reworked boxing into a world cultural phenomenon that attracted six generations of sports activities followers, demonstrating the untapped potential of pairing fight sports activities with the world’s largest leisure streaming platforms.
Offering a Platform for Younger and Various Skilled Expertise
Paul and MVP have invested in the way forward for skilled boxing by way of MVP’s Most Precious Prospects collection, which highlights younger and feminine expertise from across the globe. Since its launch in 2023, the Most Precious Prospects collection has held ten iterations and offered dozens of boxing prospects with a TV platform far earlier of their careers than is typical within the sport, addressing a important hole in skilled boxing’s construction and figuring out a number of the prime up-and-coming expertise within the sport.
Jake and MVP additionally expanded the corporate’s expertise roster to 11 athletes between 2021 and 2024, constructing better world illustration and inclusivity within the sport. In 2024 alone, Jake and MVP signed Puerto Rican fighters Krystal Rosado, Jan Paul Rivera, and Alexis “Chop Chop” Chaparro, in addition to top-ranked Canadian light-weight “Prince” Lucas Bahdi, 2x Canadian Olympian Tamm Thibeault, and India’s #1 boxer Neeraj Goyat. Jake and MVP beforehand signed Puerto Rico’s first undisputed featherweight champion Amanda “The Actual Deal” Serrano, light-weight phenom H2O Sylve, tremendous middleweight powerhouse Shadasia “The Candy Terminator” Inexperienced, and boxing prodigy and actor Javon “Wanna” Walton.
Revolutionizing the Newbie-Skilled Boxing Pipeline
Jake based his Boxing Bullies nonprofit in 2021 with the mission to instill self-confidence, management, and braveness inside youth by way of the game of boxing, offering a optimistic outlet for youngsters in underprivileged communities throughout the continental US and Puerto Rico. In April 2023, Boxing Bullies partnered with the World Boxing Group (WBO) to renovate additional youth boxing gyms throughout the US. Thus far, 1000’s of kids have participated in Boxing Bullies, getting access to the group’s 14 renovated gyms and applications designed to foster self-discipline, self-confidence, and a lifelong ardour for the game.
Jake additionally partnered with USA Boxing in December 2023 to shine a lightweight on Olympic boxing forward of the 2024 Paris Olympics, representing the primary time an expert athlete and influencer has partnered with Group USA for the Olympics on this capability. The groundbreaking partnership continued Jake’s mission to offer a platform for younger fighters and amplify world curiosity in boxing. In March 2024, Jake gave his followers an inside take a look at what it’s like to coach side-by-side with Group USA boxers and famed Olympic boxing coach, Billy Walsh on the Olympic Coaching Heart in Colorado Springs, CO. Jake additionally offered psychological efficiency teaching and led a social media workshop through the go to to assist the Olympic fighters perceive learn how to leverage social media and the facility of creating their manufacturers on-line.
In November 2024, Boxing Bullies additionally entered a groundbreaking partnership with USA Boxing. Set to roll out in Q1 2025, the partnership goals to make youth boxing as widespread and accessible as karate for Technology Alpha and past. The partnership will introduce a tiered youth growth program in 2,600 USA Boxing-affiliated gyms nationwide. The joint initiative will remodel the lives of probably tens of millions of kids and adolescents, focusing on development within the boxing fanbase and the amateur-professional boxing pipeline.
Particular person Document-Breaking Moments
Since headlining his first combat, Jake Paul has damaged information at each area in the US he has fought at. Most just lately, Paul vs. Tyson in November 2024 achieved a gate of $18,117,072 with a mean ticket worth of $304, shattering AT&T Stadium’s former report and doubling Texas’s earlier fight sports activities gate report of $9 million set by Canelo Álvarez, and marking the best fight sports activities gate in US historical past exterior of Las Vegas. Paul vs. Tyson additionally grew to become the most-streamed sporting occasion in historical past with an AMA of 108M and 65M+ concurrent streams globally, together with over 64M AMA within the US.
Paul vs. Bourland (initially scheduled because the co-main occasion of Serrano vs. Meinke), was the best recorded gate for a boxing occasion in Puerto Rico historical past in March 2024. The Coliseo de Puerto Rico’s first-ever occasion, Miguel Cotto vs. Kelson Pinto in September 2004, beforehand held the report in Puerto Rico for almost 20 years.
Paul vs. August in Orlando, FL achieved the best recorded gate and highest common ticket worth for a boxing occasion in Orlando’s historical past in December 2023. Jake’s record-setting look in Dallas, TX for Paul vs. Diaz in August 2023 was the best boxing gate and second greatest fight sports activities gate ever on the American Airways Heart. In February 2023, Paul vs. Fury earned the best boxing PPV gross sales from an occasion within the Center East to this point.
Beforehand, Paul vs. Silva broke a report for the second highest fight sports activities gate at Desert Diamond Area in Glendale, Arizona, Paul vs. Woodley II set the report for the best fight sports activities gate at Amalie Area in Tampa (the place Jake later bought out Paul vs. Perry), and Paul vs. Woodley I used to be the best boxing gate ever at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, Ohio.
