JAKE PAUL has revealed the eye-watering amount of money he made from his huge fight against Tommy Fury.
The YouTuber, 26, suffered his first defeat to professional boxer Fury on Sunday.
He lost the fight by split decision despite knocking his opponent down in the final round, with two out of the three judges scoring 76-73 in Fury’s favour.
However, he didn’t seem too phased by the result when he took to social media just hours later to reveal how much money he made from the event.
Paul posted a video on his Instagram story of himself switching from fake-crying to laughing with a caption that read: “When you lost but made $30m.”
The social media superstar proposed a huge winner-takes-all wager ahead of Sunday’s fight.
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But while Fury verbally accepted the deal on stage during the pre-fight press conference, he refused to sign the contract when it was handed it to him in a later interview with his dad, John Fury, insisting that it was checked over by lawyers first.
Paul later revealed that his opponent had not signed the agreement at all.
Had Fury put pen to paper, he would have DOUBLED his purse following Sunday’s win while Paul walked away empty handed.
Instead, the YouTuber, who has over 20million subscribers, took $30m (£25m) from the event.
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After the fight, Paul suggested that the reason behind his defeat was an illness.
He said: “I felt flat, I got sick really bad twice in this camp. It wasn’t my best performance.
“But I lost, I’m not making any excuses, I’ll just say it wasn’t my best performance tonight.
“Like I said, we’re going to come back and get that W. Don’t judge me by my wins, judge me by my losses. We’re going to come back stronger.”
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
