Claims that the recent record-breaking boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson was rigged are “incorrect and baseless … illogical and inane,” the fight’s promoter said in a statement Monday.

“Rigging a professional boxing match is a federal crime” in the U.S. “Paul vs. Tyson was a professional match sanctioned by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulations (TDLR). Both fighters, in good faith, performed to the best of their abilities with the goal of winning the fight,” the MVP statement said.

In the week since the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson fight, skeptics and conspiracy theorists have labeled it as a fixed fight.

Co-founder of Most Valuable Promotions Nakisa Bidarian has lifted the lid on the Netflix deal his team got over the line to produce a global fight between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson, reaching a record breaking Netflix audience.

I’m in the classic torture chamber where I can't tell if my internet keeps going out or whether #netflix is just constantly buffering and unwatchable for everybody,” Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy wrote on X while watching the Jake Paul vs.

Now MVP, Paul’s boxing promotion, has released a statement calling those claims “incorrect and baseless”, and saying their “wide circulation” has “undermine[d] the int

Controversy surrounding Jake Paul's win over Mike Tyson on Nov. 15 isn't going away, and Paul's promotional company is hoping to set the record straight on the fight's-and the fighter's-legitimacy. Paul's business partner and promoter of the fight Nakisa Bidarian told Sportico in a phone interview that the fighter's camp was coming out swinging against