Barstool Sports owner Dave Portnoy continues to slam last Friday’s Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul fight, having branded the bout “con-job marketing.”
Tyson and Paul squared up in a mega Netflix event that the streaming giants have since revealed was the most streamed event in sporting history. However, it hardly lived up to the hype.
“It was the greatest … I called it con-job marketing, but I would do it if I were either of them,” Portnoy said on the ‘BFFs’ podcast. “Jake got $40 million, Tyson got $20 million. Neither of them [were] in danger, but it was exactly what I thought [it was going to be].”
Lots of high-profile names have accused the fighters of fixing the bout, and Paul didn’t do himself any favors when he admitted that he took his foot off the gas.
“I wanted to give the fans a show but I didn’t want to hurt someone that didn’t need to be hurt,” he said after the bout.
