Triller is not giving up on a potential George St-Pierre vs. Oscar De La Hoya boxing match. Triller made an offer to UFC President Dana White of $1 million to a charity organisation of White’s choice in order for the UFC to allow St-Pierre to box…
Triller is not giving up on a potential George St-Pierre vs. Oscar De La Hoya boxing match. Triller made an offer to UFC President Dana White of $1 million to a charity organisation of White’s choice in order for the UFC to allow St-Pierre to box De La Hoya. Triller head Ryan Kavanaugh expressed how […]
Triller Fight Club has filed a lawsuit citing alleged $100 million in damages in California, against illegal streamers of their April 17. Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren event from the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. In an official statement emailed to MMA Fighting, the promotion alleged that eleven illegal streamers broadcasted the event, which was headlined […]
Triller Fight Club has filed a lawsuit citing alleged $100 million in damages in California, against illegal streamers of their April 17. Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren event from the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.
In an official statement emailed to MMA Fighting, the promotion alleged that eleven illegal streamers broadcasted the event, which was headlined by a professional boxing match between polarizing YouTuber, Jake Paul, and UFC alum, one-time Bellator and ONE Championship welterweight best, Ben Askren. Yahoo! Sportswas first to report the news of the promotion’s filed lawsuit.
The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court for the city of California has cited damages against eleven total websites, one hundred unnamed persons with two million total illegal streams. The damages cited are $100 million, in which Triller claim was revenue lost.
“It’s shocking to think a theft so grand can be done so blatantly and brazenly and steal with no remorse,” the statement provided to MMA Fighting read. “There is zero difference between what they did and walking into a market, stealing tones of a product and selling it at a discount in the parking lot. It’s neither civilly nor criminally any different and we are prosecuting to the fullest extent of the law.“
“There were far over two million illegal streams, akin to hundreds of millions of dollars. Sites, mostly using Google’s YouTube such as FILMDAILY.COM, ACCESSTVPRO.CO, enONLINE2LIVESTREAM.US, CRACKSTREAMSLIVE.COM, SPORTS-TODAY.CLUB, MY-SPORTS.CLUB, BILASPORT.COM, TRENDY CLIPS, MIKE, YOUR EXTRA, ECLIPT GAMING, ITSLILBRANDON, and others are causing significant damage not just to (Triller) Fight Club but content creators overall.“
“People put a lot of hard work, time and money into creating a product for the consumer and having it stolen and resold is terribly damaging,” the statement continues. “The good nes is they are not protected by VPN masking or other firewalls as their activites are criminal and grand theft so we will ultimately find them and prevail not just for us but content creators in general. We intend on working closely with the authorities as well to stop this highly illegal behaviour.“
Scoring an opening round knockout win over Askren, Paul improved to 3-0 as a professional boxer, and following the event claimed that the pay-per-view spectacle sold 1.6 million buys total, generating $75 million.
Ben Askren seems to have boiled down his loss to Jake Paul to one very simple reason. The former Bellator and ONE welterweight champion came out of retirement and hip surgery to take on the YouTube sensation in a highly-publicized bout this past Saturday. The result could not have gone much worse for Askren, as […]
Ben Askren seems to have boiled down his loss to Jake Paul to one very simple reason.
The former Bellator and ONE welterweight champion came out of retirement and hip surgery to take on the YouTube sensation in a highly-publicized bout this past Saturday. The result could not have gone much worse for Askren, as he was stopped within the first two minutes of the fight.
Askren has since vowed to stay off social media to avoid the seemingly endless string of negativity and verbal abuse that has been aimed his way since the loss. However, he did appear on the ‘Louder with Crowder‘ podcast to address the fight and the fallout (H/T MMA Junkie).
“I’m disappointed. … I saw people don’t think I took it seriously, and here’s the thing: When I took the fight, I said No. 1 for the money, No. 2 I think this could be a good time,” Askren said on Monday. “I used to box with my friends in high school just for fun. And I trained hard for 11 weeks. I didn’t miss a practice, and it just didn’t go my way.”
It appears that, more than anything, Askren is bothered the thought that the finish could have been avoided if he listened to the advice of Tyron Woodley and Mike Rhodes in his corner.
“We knew he had a good overhand right, and I’m a dumbass, and I didn’t block it,” Askren said. “My defense was a little too loose. I heard my coaches, both Tyron and ‘Biggie,’ were saying stop reacting to his fakes, and I didn’t, and I paid the price.”
Being knocked-out by a YouTube personality obviously isn’t a good look for a former professional fighter. Having it happen in less time than it took Paul to knockout a former basketball player is even worse. Add in the amount of trash talk the two shared in the lead-up to the fight, and it probably cuts to the bone.
Despite all of that, Askren says he has no regrets about stepping into the ring one last time.
“I think one of the things that really separates me from a lot of people is, like, I could’ve very easily sat on my couch and said I don’t want to do that because there’s a potential I’ll be embarrassed,” Askren said. “That would be the only reason I wouldn’t have done it. There’s no other valid reason, and I said I’m gonna do it, so f— it.”
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