Logan Paul improves to 5-0 after Woodley KO
Boxing has a number of household names and one could argue the sport is in good hands with fighters like Gervonta “Tank” Davis, world champion Canelo Alvarez, and heavy weight champion of the world Tyson Fury. However, there’s something about famed YouTuber, Jake Paul, that attracts the casual boxing fan along with the boxing purists. Admittingly, Paul is interesting; he’s an elite salesman, athletic, and clearly committed to the sport. As sports fans we respect athletes who take care of their body and look the part. Paul has proven to be a gym rat stating, “I work blood, sweat, and tears in the gym, but this is a product of working day in and day out since I was 17 years old.”
Financially he’s great for the sport and somewhat single handled selling these Pay per view fights single handedly. First fight with wodly sold out the 16,000+ capacity of RocketMortgafge Fieldhouse, and earned 500,000 PPV buys at a price of $60 in the US. You do the math. Paul posted on his instagram that he generated $75 million dollars with 1.5 million PPV buys for his easy knockout win against Ben Askren this April. At the presser to the PaulWoodley2 Paul resounded to why he’s wearing a ski mask stating, “they’re gonna give me a big bag to go and beat the guy I already beat? This is a bank robbery.” Regardless of what you think of the kid, he’s a born salesman and has mastered the internet.
At 24 years old holding a record of 5-0 with 4 KO’s, Paul has beaten up on former professional athletes, fellow youtubers, and washed MMA fighters. Along with a number of conspiracy theorist stating Paul’s fights are rigged and that there’s a “no knockout clause” written to his opponents. Post knockout, Paul went straight to twitter to antagonize Canelo, writing “I hope you’re training @canelo.” At this point, Paul has proven that he deserves to fight an actual professional boxer. Don’t lie either, you’d pay whatever it costs to watch it unfold.
