What time is the Jake Paul-Anderson Silva fight tonight? Live stream, how to watch online
Jake Paul, the YouTube celebrity, faces Anderson Silva on Saturday, Oct. 29 in a boxing match at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona. The fight will be live streamed on FITE TV.
Jake Paul’s crowd doesn’t look like any other fighter’s crowd.
When the world’s most unlikely pay-per-view boxing star promotes a bout, as Paul did in Hollywood several weeks ago, the usual autograph-hungry fight fans are outnumbered by unfamiliar faces, mostly under 30. They include excitable teenagers trying to interrupt Paul’s news conference, hypebeasts in distressed white jeans, and even a few ecstatic preteens and their mothers.
About five years into the phenomenon of social media influencers becoming boxers, the subculture is still thriving. Former foes KSI and Logan Paul — Jake’s older brother — are preparing to fight on the same card early next year along with several other content creators and MMA figures largely unknown outside their social media bubbles.
But Paul is fighting in a different arena: While other YouTubers continue to throw haymakers for content creation and a small profit, Paul has become a professional prizefighter in every traditional sense of the word except in the level of his opposition, which is also getting higher.
When Paul faces the former mixed martial arts superstar Saturday night, promoters say the Desert Diamond Arena outside Phoenix will set its revenue record from a boxing event, with gate money on par with a top UFC pay-per-view show.
Paul and Silva are meeting in an eight-round catchweight bout on a card that also includes former NFL running back Le’Veon Bell fighting recently retired UFC veteran Uriah Hall, along with a YouTube-famous primary care physician named Doctor Mike taking on another former MMA fighter.
When is Jake Paul-Anderson Silva?
The Jake Paul-Anderson Silva fight is set for Saturday, Oct. 29 at 8 p.m. (9 p.m. ET).
Will it be live streamed?
The Jake Paul-Anderson Silva fight will be live streamed on FITE TV for $59.99.
FITE is the premier global streaming platform for sports and entertainment with more than 1,000 pay-per-view events per year. FITE can be accessed via any of its free apps for iOS and Android phones/tablets, Apple TV, Android TV, ROKU, PS, XBOX, Chromecast, Xfinity, Cox Contour Virgin Media and Amazon Fire, plus over 7,000 Smart TV models including Samsung, LG, Hisense, and Vizio.
FITE reaches more than 10 million viewers and a community of over 4.4 million registered users.
Will it be televised?
The Jake Paul-Anderson Silva fight will not be broadcast on traditional TV.
Mark Heim is a sports reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim.