Mike Tyson is facing a $1.59 million lawsuit from Medier, a Cyprus-based company promoting the online casino and betting platform Rabona after allegedly breaching a sponsorship agreement to pursue a separate deal with Netflix to fight Youtuber Jake Paul in November, the Daily Mail reported.
The company alleges that Tyson, 58, and his company, Tyrannic, breached a sponsorship agreement when the high-profile Netflix bout was announced in March. Subsequently, Medier filed a lawsuit in London’s High Court in October, alleging the former heavyweight champion of unlawfully abandoning a deal he signed in January 2024.
“The true reason for Mr. Tyson and Tyrannic’s hasty and unlawful termination was because Mr. Tyson had agreed [to] a deal, sponsored by Netflix, to fight the influencer Jake Paul,” Medier’s lawyer wrote in documents released on Friday.
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