chief has suggested cancelled his anticipated upcoming bout with Hasim Rahman Jr due to a lack of interest and a failure to sell enough tickets.
Paul was set to meet Rahman Jr in the ring at Madison Square Garden on August 6 but has put the brakes on the fight due to an issue with his opponent’s weight.
White – who has clashed with Paul in the past – has offered an alternative theory, stating that the fight was cancelled due to low ticket sales for the bout at the famously expensive boxing venue.
‘I think they sold under $1million in tickets and it costs $500,000 to turn the f***ing lights on at MSG,’ he said.
‘That’s what I think.Not to mention hotel rooms in New York and transportation is very expensive.’
Jake Paul has slammed Hasim Rahman Jr for pulling out of their upcoming bout on August 6
UFC boss Dana White has suggested that the fight was cancelled due to a lack of ticket sales
According to Paul’s promotion company, Rahman had lost less than one pound than he had initially agreed to for the fight – which was supposed to take place at a max of 200 pounds.
Rahman weighed 216 pounds on July 7 and had reportedly offered assurances to Paul’s team that he was on track to make weight at the weigh-in on August 5.
However, Paul’s camp claim that it ‘became clear that these assurances were not made in good faith’.
Paul said Rahman was struggling to cut weight in order to meet the fight’s 205lb threshold
The Youtuber’s promotion team, Most Valuable Promotions, construction induction gold coast announced the news Saturday night as they said they could not work with someone who was conducting themselves in ‘such a deceiving and calculated manner’.
Paul was originally set to fight Tommy Fury, but the younger brother of heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury pulled out for a second time after he was refused the visa required to enter America.
The YouTube star called an ’emergency press conference’ as he posted a video to his Twitter account where he branded Rahman ‘unprofessional’, before immediately changing his bio to read: ‘Hasim Rahman Jr and Tommy Fury were both too afraid to fight me and I’m not the « real boxer »… lololol.’
Paul swiftly changed his bio to claim that Rahman and Tommy Fury were to scared to fight him
‘Alrighty folks, emergency press conference,’ he said.’You may have seen the news Hasim Rahman Jr. has pulled out of the fight, this is not a joke.
‘I am devastated. I cannot f*****g believe this. We just found out this news.
‘This is just another case of a professional boxer, just like Tommy Fury, being scared to fight me.It’s as clear as day that these guys have been so unprofessional to work with, looking for any excuse to such more money out of this event. To coerce us into doing things.
