Eddie Hearn and Matchroom Boxing have filled a multi-million dollar lawsuit against outspoken youtube personality, professional fighter and the force of MVP Promotions Jake Paul. Hearn and Matchroom filed the lawsuit on the 23rd of September in the Southern District court of New York, USA and seeking damages in excess of $100million US Dollars following comments and accusations from Jake Paul that long serving judge Glenn Feldman was on Matchroom Boxing’s payroll after Jake Paul criticized Feldman’s recent judging performances one of which involved one of Jake Paul’s promotional fighter’s in the form of Amanda Serrano. Serrano faced off against rival Katie Taylor on April 30th and in a recent interview conducted by IFLTV saw Paul sound off against Feldman in that fight and along with criticism of Feldman following recent rematch between Olesandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua in Saudi Arabia in August.
Jake Paul’s quotes when speaking to IFLTV, Conducted by UMAR AHMED:
“I still think Amanda Serrano won the fight,” Paul said. “And then you see how this judge Glenn Feldman, who had the biggest gap between Taylor and Serrano. Everyone pretty much had it a draw… or that Amanda won. But there’s this judge, Glenn Feldman, who scored it such a big gap for Taylor, gave rounds that Amanda clearly won to Taylor.
“Then this judge, Glenn Feldman, shows up in Saudi and scores Anthony Joshua to win (against Usyk). Everyone who watched the fight (knows) it’s not a split decision. Usyk had a runaway victory, clearly won the fight. This judge, Glenn Feldman, gives it to Anthony Joshua? It’s like a repeated crime here. This type of shit, I’m going to call it out here in boxing because it’s bullshit. Clearly, this guy is getting paid money by Matchroom Boxing.”
“It’s a bold statement and an accusation that I don’t take lightly but it’s just blatantly obvious,” stated Paul. “They’re not even trying to hide it. You’d think they get a different judge that fucked up the scoring from Taylor-Serrano. You’d think they’d get a different judge to bring to Saudi Arabia, especially since he’s from the U.S.
“Why all of a sudden does he appear in Saudi? You’d think they’d get a different judge to try to hide the corruption that they’re bringing to this sport but it’s so blatantly obvious.”
Matchroom Boxing have appointed attorney Frank Salzano to represent them in the proceedings and Mr Salzano detailed to Jake Donovan of Boxing Scene.
“Both legally and ethically there is a clear line separating opinion from defamatory lies, Jake Paul knows that, and he purposely crossed that line when he wrongly accused Matchroom Boxing and Eddie Hearn of fixing fights.
“Nonetheless he was still given an opportunity to retract his defamatory statements and refused to.Now he will face the legal consequences of his actions as Matchroom and Mr. Hearn will be seeking damages in well excess of $100 million given the value and goodwill attached to the Matchroom business and the harmful nature of Mr. Paul’s comments.”
No date has been given at the time of writing as to when the court procedings will commence along with no details of any out of court settlement being established.
