Pennsylvania, Colorado and Vermont won’t approve wagering and for good reason.
I have been covering the sport of boxing professionally for 27 years and, as crazy as it is to type these words, Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson is, in some regards, the biggest boxing match of that entire span.
The viewing audience for Friday night’s fight from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, will be enormous – not nearly on par with a Super Bowl, but quite possibly equal to the next-biggest sporting event on the list.
And so, in turn, the betting interest is humongous. Even people who’ve never watched Paul box in any of his 11 professional bouts, or who weren’t alive the last time Tyson held a major heavyweight title, seem to have strong conviction as to whether the 27-year-old neophyte is going to get the better of the 58-year-old living legend. Or if the former “Baddest Man on the Planet” is going to butcher the former Disney Channel star.
There are three states, however, that regulate sports betting but w..