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Where has Jake Paul’s £200,000 tattoo gone? Mystery when eagle-eyed boxing fans discover the ink was missing from the YouTube star’s vodka bottle during his fight with Tommy Fury, despite only being 11 days earlier
- The YouTuber turned boxer stepped into the ring for a highly anticipated fight.
- Jake Paul defeated by Tommy Fury in Saudi Arabia on Sunday by split decision
- He had been paid a small fortune before the fight for a tattoo on his right arm.
A tattoo that Jake Paul received a six-figure sum for before his fight with Tommy Fury in Saudi Arabia on Sunday night disappeared when he stepped into the ring.
Paul was visited by British DJ Charlie Sloth after completing his pre-fight training camp in Dubai some 10 days before the grudge match with Fury, which he lost via split decision.
Sloth, who co-owns the Au Vodka company along with Charlie Morgan, the ball boy kicked by then-Chelsea winger Eden Hazard when he was at Swansea in 2013, challenged the YouTuber-turned-boxer to get a blue raspberry bottle tattoo to his right. arm in exchange for £206,000.
Paul duly accepted the challenge and a video was posted on YouTube last week showing the two men on a rooftop in Dubai, drinking the drink in question while a tattoo artist tattooed Paul’s right arm.
Having gained a fair amount of traction in the days leading up to the fight, fans expected to see Paul emerge to the ring with the tattoo proudly displayed.
Jake Paul’s right arm was missing the tattoo for which he had been paid £206,000 a few days earlier.
The tattoo that had been filmed while being inked on Paul’s arm was not there during the fight.
However, eagle-eyed viewers noted the lack of ink on his right arm, leading many to speculate as to where it had gone, or if it had been real in the first place.
“Tommy Fury must have taken a big hit last night…His tattoo fell off,” one joked on social media.
Another said: “Imagine getting hit so hard, your AU Vodka ‘tattoo’ falls off.”
A third noted the similarities between Paul’s label tattoo and what real labels do, writing: “Jake Paul’s tattoo did the exact same thing the labels on his bottles do, amazing attention to detail in my opinion.” “.
‘Jake Paul, what happened to your Au Vodka tattoo last night? It just disappeared,” asked another.
In the video, a tattoo artist can be seen outlining the pattern on Paul’s arm. The internet sensation then jokes that he would have done it for free, due to his affection for the former Radio 1Xtra DJ.
Paul ended up losing the fight to Fury via split decision. He appeared to disagree with the judges’ assessment of the fight and vowed that he would return to defeat Fury in a rematch.
Paul has said he will fight Fury in a rematch after losing to the Brit by split decision on Sunday.
Drinking in Saudi Arabia is strictly prohibited and the country has some of the strictest drinking laws.
The country prohibits the manufacture, sale, possession and consumption of alcohol and non-compliance with those laws is punishable by a series of measures.
In 2015, it was reported that a British man named Karl Andree, 74 at the time, had been in prison for a year after being arrested by Saudi religious police for being caught with homemade wine.
He was spared over 300 lashes due to his poor health and age.