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Jake Paul Once Lost Millions Following Logan Paul’s Blunder: “I Felt All of It”

Published 08/22/2022, 12:00 PM EDT

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The Paul brothers, Logan Paul and Jake Paul, have been with each other for their ups and downs in life. From motivating one another, be it a vlog, a brand deal, or a fight, to taking a firm stand for each other during hard times! Recently, elder brother Logan Paul signed with the WWE and made a deal with FC Arsenal. While Logan Paul enjoyed one success after the other in his fields, younger brother Jake Paul suffered one cancellation after just another.

Following his recent cancellation of the scheduled bout with Hasim Rahman Jr. set for MSG, Jake Paul was subject to lose millions. While Jake Paul looks to find himself a worthy opponent and a successful event in boxing, here is a look at a time when Jake Paul lost millions, credits to Logan Paul and his controversies.

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Following the Suicide Forest controversy, people widely took Jake for his brother Logan Paul and denied him brand deals. He said, “It really messed up things from an advertising stand-point, to brand deals and even to how the public views the whole Paul brothers. I felt all of it.”

Logan Paul’s controversy affected younger brother Jake Paul

According to Jake Paul, after the ‘Suicide Forest’ controversy, people felt an aversion to do anything with the Pauls. Because of which ‘The Problem Child’ lost two seven-figure deals and suffered a tough time. He admitted by saying, “It dramatically affected my business and everything – probably just as much as it affected him. People think we’re the same person. My name got looped into everything.”

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The infamous Suicide Forest video disturbingly featured a dead body and infuriated a significant number of Paul’s fans. Such was the intensity of the outrage that the business owners, who otherwise promised the younger Paul a deal, refused to do anything with him at that very moment in their life.

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Paul said, “Two days after it happened, I was supposed to be doing a brand deal for seven figures and that got taken away. Another seven figure deal we had planned called and said, “Yeah we’re not doing that anymore.”

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Samrat Sardar

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Samrat Sardar is a Boxing writer at EssentiallySports and is currently a final year undergraduate student of English literature. A passionate content creator, he has been writing since his high school days, and possesses work experience as a commercial writer for companies such as WordsKraft among others. Samrat believes he fell in love with boxing the day he watched Vasiliy Lomachenko share the ring with Guillermo Rigondeaux.
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Ajinkya Aswale