Jake Paul and Gervonta \u201cTank\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cI f*ck with you heavy, Gervonta but I want to side bet you,\u201d Ross said. \u201cI got Jake winning. Let\u2019s go $250,000.\u201d<\/p>\n
Davis didn\u2019t blink and immediately answered back by offering to up the stakes even more.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s go $500,000,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n
That number caught Ross\u2019 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\u2019t quite enough for a matchup of this magnitude.<\/p>\n
\u201cEasy. Let\u2019s make it a million,\u201d Paul said. \u201cEasy work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Once again, Davis happily accepted and then shouted \u201clet\u2019s make it $2 [million]\u201d and that definitely earned a few reactions from the crowd in attendance.<\/p>\n
Paul accepted the wager and then asked Ross what they planned on buying after he won the fight.<\/p>\n
For his part, Davis didn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n
Not all of it, mind you, only some of it, which produced the funniest remark during the entire press conference.<\/p>\n
\u201c$2 million? I can\u2019t even say [what I\u2019d buy] because motherf*ckers going to hate me for it,\u201d Davis said. \u201cSo I\u2019m going to chill. I might donate it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not donating $2 million. I come from the hood. Not doing that. I\u2019ll give something but I ain\u2019t going $2 million. I ain\u2019t that damn rich.\u201d<\/p>\n
Davis even went as far as trying to place another side bet with Paul\u2019s business partner and Most Valuable Promotion\u2019s co-founder Nakisa Bidarian but he stuck to his guns that he wasn\u2019t putting down a wager on the fight.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s record, there are still going to be three judges scoring the fight ringside.<\/p>\n
Hopefully that holds up when it comes time for Davis or Paul to collect the bet.<\/p>\n