Jake Paul's Manager and Team: Who Takes a Cut?

Updated: October 2026

Jake Paul has built one of the most commercially successful careers in modern boxing, and behind every fight night is a team that keeps the machine running. While most boxers hand a share of their purse to managers, trainers, and promoters, Paul's setup is unusual: he is both the fighter and the promoter. So who actually takes a cut of Jake Paul's money? Here's what's known about his team and how boxing payouts typically work.

Jake Paul's Promoter and Business Partner: Nakisa Bidarian

The one verified name at the center of Jake Paul's boxing operation is Nakisa Bidarian, his promoter and business partner. Bidarian, a former UFC executive, co-founded Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) with Paul, and the company promotes all of Paul's fights as well as cards headlined by stars like Amanda Serrano and Katie Taylor.

This dual role changes the economics completely. In a conventional setup, an outside promoter takes a percentage of the event revenue. Here, Paul and Bidarian are the promoter — meaning the promotional margin stays inside their own company instead of flowing to a third party like a Top Rank or Matchroom.

How Boxing Cuts Usually Work

Paul's actual deal terms are private, but standard industry ranges are well documented. A typical professional boxer gives up roughly:

• Manager's cut: commonly around 10–20% of the purse, depending on the contract and the manager's services.
• Trainer's cut: commonly around 5–10% of the purse for the head trainer, with assistant trainers and cutmen paid flat fees or smaller shares.
• Promoter's share: taken at the event level, typically a negotiated split of gate, broadcast, and sponsorship revenue rather than a flat slice of the fighter's purse.
• Sanctioning and fees: small percentages for sanctioning bodies, plus state athletic commission fees, medicals, and insurance.

These are industry norms, not Paul's actual numbers. His contracts have never been disclosed publicly.

Why Paul's Take-Home Math Is Different

Because Paul fights under his own promotional banner, he avoids the classic tension between fighter and promoter. Instead of negotiating against a promoter for a bigger purse, he negotiates with broadcasters and venues as the promoter himself — and keeps the promoter's share inside MVP.

That structure is a big reason analysts believe his purses are so large relative to his experience level. When the Tyson event reportedly became his biggest payday, a meaningful portion of that value likely flowed through MVP's promotional position, not just his fighter's purse. That's the promoter advantage: two seats at the table instead of one.

Who Else Is on the Team?

Paul's broader operation includes strength and conditioning coaches, nutritionists, sparring partners, media staff, and the business teams behind MVP, Betr, and his W men's body-care brand. Public reporting has named various trainers and coaches over the years, but his core commercial relationship — the one that matters for the money — has consistently been the Paul–Bidarian partnership at MVP.

Note that team members like coaches and media staff are generally salaried or paid per camp, not on percentage cuts. The percentage-based cuts in boxing are traditionally limited to the manager, head trainer, and promoter.

FAQ: Jake Paul's Team and Cuts

Who is Jake Paul's manager?

Paul's boxing career is guided through Most Valuable Promotions, the company he co-founded with promoter and business partner Nakisa Bidarian. Unlike most boxers, Paul does not operate under a traditional outside manager–promoter structure.

Who is Nakisa Bidarian?

Bidarian is a former UFC executive who co-founded Most Valuable Promotions with Jake Paul. He serves as the promotional brain of the operation, handling event deals, broadcast negotiations, and the business side of Paul's fight cards.

What percentage does a boxing manager typically take?

Industry norms generally put a manager's cut at roughly 10–20% of a fighter's purse, with trainers commonly around 5–10%. These are typical ranges — Paul's actual private arrangements have never been disclosed.

Does Jake Paul keep more of his purse than other boxers?

Probably, in effect: because he co-owns the promotional company staging his fights, the promoter's margin stays within his own business rather than going to an outside promoter. His exact take-home figures are not public.

Bottom line: Jake Paul's real "manager" is the business he built. The Paul–Bidarian partnership at Most Valuable Promotions is the engine behind his boxing earnings — and understanding it is the key to understanding how a YouTuber turned boxer reportedly became one of the highest-paid fighters in the sport.