LOS ANGELES — The Jake Paul-Mike Tyson bout that brought massive viewership numbers to Netflix last week also resulted in a record-setting gate.

Paul's unanimous-decision victory over Tyson at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Friday has netted a gate of $18,117,072, a number that Paul's Most Valuable Promotions says shatters the U.S. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Netflix looked for the silver lining in the technically flawed live stream of the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight on Friday.

The Los Gatos, Calif.-based streaming giant said 60 million households watched the bout between Paul, a fighter who has established his fame through YouTube, and Tyson, the 58-year-old former heavyweight ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — It’s our fault.

Let’s get that out of the way before we take any kind of deep dive into the embarrassment of a travesty we participated in as a society Friday night.

We all decided that there was some sort of reason, ranging from boredom to genuine excitement to morbid curiosity, to log in to a streaming service and watch a ...Read more

Netflix Inc.’s foray into live sports streaming with the historic boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul drew a massive global audience that peaked at 65 million viewers but resulted in thousands of complaints from viewers about connection problems and frozen screens.

“We crashed the site,” said Paul, 27, after claiming victory ...Read more

IRVING, Texas — Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson is legalized human cock fighting, an event that needs the promotion line of, “Why Not? We’re All Gonna Die.”

Tyson should be dead already, so stepping back in to the ring to fight a YouTube influencer is free money in a life on extended time. Few athletes in the last 40 years have cheated death, ...Read more

MIAMI — You may have heard on account of the avalanche of hype and Netflix ads that boxing icon Mike Tyson is extracting himself from mothballs to enter the ring against YouTube-invented self promoter Jake Paul on Friday night in a sanctioned heavyweight fight in Arlington, Texas.

Which raises the question: Who is sanctioning fights out there...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Mike Tyson is 58 and his last professional fight was 19 years ago.

That hasn’t stopped bettors from backing “Iron Mike” in the former world heavyweight champion’s return to the ring Friday against 27-year-old YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul.

Paul is as low as a -240 favorite at Caesars Sportsbook, where 91% of the tickets...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Eddie Hearn called Jaron Ennis last month, asking Philadelphia’s undefeated boxing star what he wanted to do. Ennis’ next fight, according to the International Boxing Federation, was to be a mandatory welterweight title defense against a challenger he easily outpointed less than two years ago in a dull bout not worthy of a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Mercurial boxer Ryan Garcia caught a break Tuesday when a judge dismissed a misdemeanor vandalism charge against him over the objections of the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.

Judge James P. Cooper III granted a civil compromise at the Airport Courthouse in Los Angeles, noting that Garcia had paid restitution of ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Canelo Alvarez has fought long enough to know never to take an opponent lightly.

It doesn’t matter to him if he’s fighting an established boxer like Floyd Mayweather or, like Saturday, facing an undefeated knockout specialist.

Alvarez, 34, understands there will be a weight on his shoulders every time he steps into the ring. ...Read more