Fewer than 60,000 tickets have been bought for the battle between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson final month at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, based on paperwork obtained by USA TODAY Sports activities.
About 6,500 tickets got away, based on the paperwork, because the heavyweight bout livestreamed Nov. 15 by Netflix fell wanting hopes for ticket gross sales.
On a number of events Paul stated the battle would draw 90,000 spectators to AT&T Stadium. That might have required the sale of 10,000 standing-room-only seats on the 80,000-seat venue, house of the Dallas Cowboys. However solely 59,666 tickets have been bought and one other 6,437 got away for a complete of 66,103 tickets distributed, based on a tax report submitted by the battle promoter, Holden Boxing LLC.
Holden Boxing labored for Most Beneficial Promotions (MVP), which was co-founded by Paul, and partnered with Netflix on the battle. Nexflix reported the battle was the most-streamed sporting occasion ever and that concurrent streams peaked at 65 million.
Mike Tyson (black gloves) fights Jake Paul (silver gloves) at AT&T Stadium. (Kevin Jairaj, Imagn Pictures)
The ticket gross sales generated $18.1 million, greater than every other U.S. boxing occasion exterior of Nevada, based on MVP.
The full proceeds topic to state taxes was $22 million − which included $3.6 million for tickets given away.
For a combative sports activities occasion, Texas taxes the quantity for gross receipts on ticket gross sales at a 3-percent fee, which resulted in a tax invoice of about $650,000, based on the tax report.
This story was initially printed by USA TODAY Sports activities.
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