HE'S the motormouth YouTube sensation who has carved out a lucrative career in boxing - despite starting out as a star on the Disney channel. Few could have predicted Jake Paul 's meteoric rise and much of it is thanks to his infamous "problem child" persona that's netted him a cool $80million (£63m). Now the 27-year-old, from Ohio, US, is facing his biggest and most unexpected challenge to date - a boxing bout with legendary fighter Mike Tyson .
Reaching this point has been no easy thing for Paul, who once branded himself the "world's most hated man" due to his controversial posts online and wild partying antics. During that time he's weathered a number of scandals from alleged cryptocurrency scams that defrauded fans out of millions and his notorious "warzone parties" that featured bonfires as tall as houses. Those notorious moments led to him being fired from the Disney programme but his outrageous misconduct didn't stop there.
There have been “roadmap” scams, mystery boxes with no prizes, a Tommy Fury fight 'script leak', as well as an FBI raid for firearms. Paul's controversial stunts are endless have led him to be considered the ultimate scandal magnet - and it's unlikely to stop now as he prepares to clash with Tyson . The 27-year-old opened up in Netflix's U ntold: Jake Paul The Problem Child about alleged childhood abuse by his “intense” father, Greg, in Ohio.
Jake claimed his dad would “slap the s*** out of him” and would regularly tell him as a child: .