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Matchroom Boxing head Eddie Hearn filed a lawsuit against Jake Paul for his recent allegations of fixing fights.

YouTube sensation turned boxer Paul took issue with the judging of Katie Taylor’s historic contest with Amanda Serrano and pointed out boxing judge Glenn Feldman’s controversial scorecard, which favored Taylor by the biggest margin of any judge, as an indication of foul play.

Hearn recently issued a statement threatening Paul with litigation if he did not apologize publicly.

Eddie Hearn sued Jake Paul for $100million for fight-fixing allegations

Hearn followed through with his ultimatum and sued Paul in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. His attorney Frank Salzano reported that his clients are seeking more than $100 million in damages. TMZ was the first to report news of the lawsuit.

“Both legally and ethically there is a clear line separating opinion from defamatory lies,” Salzano said via ESPN. “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.”

Salzano argued that Paul’s comments caused financial damage to Hearn and the firm.

“Such accusations are obviously deeply offensive as well as damaging to [Hearn and Matchroom],” wrote Salzano, a partner in the New York law firm Salzano, Lampert & Wilson, LLP. “They are also patently false. [Paul’s] defamatory statements were made with malicious intent and have caused financial and reputational harm to [Hearn and Matchroom], which is precisely what [Paul] intended when he made the outlandish accusations,” Salzano wrote.

Paul alleged Hearn paid off a judge

In an interview last week with IFL TV, Paul claimed that Feldman was paid off by Hearn to score fights in favor of Matchroom boxers.

“It’s like a repeated crime here,” Paul told IFL TV. “This type of s—, I’m going to call it out here in boxing because it’s bulls—. Clearly, this guy (Feldman) is getting paid money by Matchroom Boxing.”

Eddie Hearn made it clear he will not tolerate any talks of potential fight fixing from Jake Paul.

Paul had recently weighed in on the controversial scoring from boxing judge Glenn Feldman, who provided seemingly biased scorecards in his recent fights including athletes under Hearn’s Matchroom boxing promotion. “The Problem Child” took issue with Feldman’s take on Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano, where he scored the fight for Taylor by the biggest margin of any judge in April.

Eddie Hearn fires back at Jake Paul for accusations of fixing fights

Following Taylor’s monumental win over Serrano, Paul accused Hearn and his camp of fixing fights. Hearn shared his thoughts on Paul’s claims with a decisive response.

“I hate all that but at the end of the day sometimes you’ve got to teach these people,” Hearn told Boxing Social. “You’ve got two options really — you can chin him or sue him. I’m not around him, I’m not going to chin him anyways. I hate it but it’s like it’s so idiotic and it’s actually disrespectful to the sport that he knows nothing about.

“Firstly he says ‘why does Eddie Hearn keep using these judges?’ I don’t use any judges. The commission selects all judges and various commissions around the world. By the way, Glenn Feldman is one of the best judges, speak to anyone in the sport. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about. To make those allegations, really it pissed me off and actually upset me. It’s actually led me to take it further.” (ht MMA Fighting)

Hearn is taking the issue seriously and wants an apology from Paul to repair the defamation.

“I want an official apology from him and if he won’t then we’ll see what we have to do,” Hearn said. “But I’m not having our name in this business defamed and the integrity of what we do. It’s very important to us and our love for the sport by some geezer that has no idea what he’s talking about.

“Listen, he’s good for the sport, we have a laugh, he’s average, he don’t like me, Taylor-Serrano, etc. That’s another level that is. So that will be dealt with.”