Slow, sluggish, and out of breath. That is how most fans remember Mike Tyson against Jake Paul. However, despite being one of the most hated and controversial boxing bouts possibly ever, the event did unprecedented numbers. With the fight raking in almost $108 million in total views globally, it is one of the most-watched boxing fights of all time.

No matter how you look at it, the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas hosted a historic event last year. However, former five-division world champion Floyd Mayweather thinks otherwise. Money Mayweather, who has been involved with the Paul brothers in the past, recently sat down with Jimmy Fallon on ‘The Tonight Show’ and had some rather unpleasant things to say about the fight.

Mayweather: Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson owe their numbers to Netflix

The former world champion was not able to control his laughter when Jimmy Fallon asked, “So Mike Tyson and Jake Paul fight. What is your reaction?” After a few seconds of composing himself, Floyd Mayweather answered, “I don’t really know where to go with this subject. Because if I say something, I’m gonna get backlash.” But when has the fear of getting backlash stopped Floyd Mayweather?

So when pressed further, he did not hold back. “When you are watching boxing for free, you can have millions and millions and hundreds of millions of views,” stated Mayweather rather bluntly. According to him, the only reason the fight attracted that many views was because most of the viewers already had Netflix subscriptions. If the fans would have had to pay pay-per-view prices, the global views would have been significantly less.

“But when you are watching Floyd Mayweather, you have to pay. I did pay-per-view numbers. Check the records,” stated Floyd Mayweather in an apparent dig at both Jake Paul and Mike Tyson. When Fallon asked if he would ever get in the ring with Jake Paul, Mayweather immediately rejected the idea, claiming it would be “Easy. Easy. Too Easy” before finally adding, “At 48, Too Easy.”

The statement by the 50-0 boxer indeed has some truth to it as he holds the record for the top two biggest PPVs of all time.

Floyd Mayweather is the true pay-per-view king

With the top two biggest PPVs of all time and four events in the top ten biggest PPVs in history, Floyd has a serious case as the biggest box office attraction ever. His fights with Manny Pacquiao and Conor McGregor did 4.6 million and 4.3 million PPV buys respectively. These are still two of the biggest boxing events of all time.

Furthermore, even the gate revenue of the Pacquiao event is incomparable. Reportedly, the 2015 bout garnered $72.2 million in gate revenue at the MGM Garden Arena in Las Vegas. On the other hand, while the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson event was big, it earned merely $18.1 million in ticket sales. While it has a lot to do with MVP reducing the price for premium seating, with only 16,800 seating capacity of the MGM Grand Garden Arena compared to 72,000+ of AT&T Stadium, the gate numbers of the Mayweather fight are sensational.

Moreover, while the Tyson-Paul bout garnered 65 million live streams, there is no way to estimate the revenue earned as it was on a streaming model. On the other hand, the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight brought in almost $500 million in total revenue, which might never be topped again.

While Pacquiao and McGregor are Floyd Mayweather’s top two PPVs ever. He has done impressive numbers with other fights as well. Mayweather’s third biggest PPV was against the “Golden Boy” of boxing, Oscar De La Hoya. The event brought in about 2.4 million in PPV numbers and broke the previous gate record at the time. His fight with Canelo Alvarez also hit 2.2 million PPVs.

These four events rank among the ten biggest PPVs in history. There can be a solid case that it might have been the fights rather than Floyd Mayweather alone being responsible for those numbers. However, with approximately 24 million total PPV buys, with nine PPVs doing over a million buys, and two crossing the four million mark, Mayweather might be the true PPV king.

Do you think Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson would have done fewer numbers under the PPV model as Floyd claims? Let us know your thoughts down below.