Jake Paul and Gervonta “Tank” Davis are probably getting paid handsomely for their exhibition bout scheduled to air on Netflix in November but the fighters raised the stakes with a side bet worth $2 million.
The wager happened after streamer Adin Ross, who showed up to the pre-fight press conference alongside Paul in a Bugatti, first attempted to up his bet with Davis on the fight. Apparently they had previously agreed on a wager for $200,000 and that price only escalated during a back and forth with the fighters on stage.
“I f*ck with you heavy, Gervonta but I want to side bet you,” Ross said. “I got Jake winning. Let’s go $250,000.”
Davis didn’t blink and immediately answered back by offering to up the stakes even more.
“Let’s go $500,000,” Davis said.
That number caught Ross’ attention because he balked at putting that much money on the line but thankfully Paul was there to back him up. Not only that but Paul decided that $500,000 wasn’t quite enough for a matchup of this magnitude.
“Easy. Let’s make it a million,” Paul said. “Easy work.”
Once again, Davis happily accepted and then shouted “let’s make it $2 [million]” and that definitely earned a few reactions from the crowd in attendance.
Paul accepted the wager and then asked Ross what they planned on buying after he won the fight.
For his part, Davis didn’t reveal his own wishlist if he happened to go home with an extra $2 million but he did hint at possibly giving some of that money away to charity.
Not all of it, mind you, only some of it, which produced the funniest remark during the entire press conference.
“$2 million? I can’t even say [what I’d buy] because motherf*ckers going to hate me for it,” Davis said. “So I’m going to chill. I might donate it.
“I’m not donating $2 million. I come from the hood. Not doing that. I’ll give something but I ain’t going $2 million. I ain’t that damn rich.”
Davis even went as far as trying to place another side bet with Paul’s business partner and Most Valuable Promotion’s co-founder Nakisa Bidarian but he stuck to his guns that he wasn’t putting down a wager on the fight.
Perhaps the most interesting twist to this whole saga is that technically since the fight is being contested as an exhibition, there is no winner or loser. That said, a knockout obviously decides the fight and Bidarian revealed on Monday that despite the result not going on either fighter’s record, there are still going to be three judges scoring the fight ringside.
Hopefully that holds up when it comes time for Davis or Paul to collect the bet.
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