Jake Paul has welcomed Bob Arum's drastic change in stance on women's boxing after announcing Mikaela Mayer will fight Alycia Baumgardner.
Arum had previously stunned Paul with comments about the level of interest in Katie Taylor vs Amanda Serrano, which the YouTuber-turned-boxer teamed up with Eddie Hearn to promote last month. The Top Rank boss was going head-to-head to Hearn and Paul with Shakur Stevenson's unified super-featherweight title fight against Oscar Valdez on the same night.
And in a pre-fight interview, Arum argued that there would be minimal interest in the women's bout due to their gender, with a bigger audience expected for Stevenson vs Valdez. However, ratings on ESPN for the men's fight ended up falling just short of the DAZN viewing figures for Taylor vs Serrano.
