The undercard for the Nov. 14 exhibition boxing match between Jake Paul and Gervonta Davis at Kaseya Heart in Miami has been revealed, with each males’s and girls’s championship fights, representatives from Most Priceless Promotions instructed ESPN on Tuesday.
The occasion shall be streamed globally stay on Netflix.
Alycia Baumgardner (16-1, 7 KOs) will defend her WBA, WBO and IBF ladies’s junior light-weight titles in opposition to Leila Beudoin (13-1, 2 KOs) within the co-main occasion. The struggle shall be contested beneath males’s championship struggle guidelines with 12, three-minute rounds.
“Consistency is what retains me sharp and makes me harmful,” Baumgardner mentioned in an announcement to ESPN. “Combating 12×3:00 represents equality. Equality in boxing means giving champions a platform to point out their greatness. I’m right here to point out the world that I’m constructed for any and the whole lot. AND STILL!”
Baumgardner not too long ago relinquished her WBC title, resulting from WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman opposing three-minute rounds for girls’s boxing. The same scenario occurred with Amanda Serrano when she vacated her WBC featherweight title in protest of the sanctioning physique’s refusal to sanction her request for a 12 spherical, three-minute title protection.
“Like Amanda Serrano and plenty of different nice champions earlier than me, I consider ladies ought to have the selection to compete beneath the identical guidelines as males, 12 rounds, three minutes per spherical,” Baumgardner mentioned. “I’ve chosen to maneuver ahead in my profession beneath these phrases. My subsequent championship struggle will happen beneath these guidelines, and for the reason that WBC doesn’t presently permit ladies to struggle beneath these phrases, I’ve made the tough determination to vacate my WBC title.
“I respect the WBC and need to thank the WBC for all of the help they’ve given me all through my profession. Turning into their champion was a profession defining honor, and I look ahead to and plan to sooner or later struggle for a WBC belt once more.”
Additionally on the cardboard, Gary Antuanne Russell (18-1, 17 KOs) will defend his WBA junior welterweight championship in opposition to obligatory challenger Andy Hiraoka (24-0, 19 KOs). Russell will make his first title protection after beating Jose Valenzuela for the title in March. Combating out of Japan, Hiraoka final fought in Sept. 2024 when he stopped Ismael Barroso within the ninth spherical.
“Gary Russell is a good champion, however I’m coming to Miami to win his belt and grow to be Japan’s subsequent world champion,” Hiraoka mentioned.
The preliminary card shall be headlined by unified ladies’s junior bantamweight champion Ellie Scotney (11-0) will face WBA champion Mayelli Flores (13-1-1, 4 KOs) to find out the undisputed champion of the division. Scotney, 27, would be the youngest UK boxer, male or feminine, to have ever fought for an undisputed world title.
“Belt by belt, I’ve earned this the arduous method,” Scotney mentioned. “Undisputed has at all times been the objective, and now due to MVP we’re on the ultimate and most vital step. On Friday November 14th I am going to make historical past as Britains subsequent Undisputed World Champion.”
Additionally on the preliminary card shall be WBC ladies’s strawweight champion Yokasta Valle (33-3, 10 KOs) placing her title on the road in opposition to Yadira Bustillos (11-1, 2 KOs) in a 10-round bout. Avious Griffin (17-1, 16 KOs) will look to bounce again from his first skilled loss when he faces Cesar Francis (14-2, 9 KOs) in an 8 spherical welterweight battle.
Paul vs. Davis shall be a 10-round, three-minute exhibition contested at a catchweight of 195 kilos. The fighters will put on 12-ounce gloves. Though the consequence won’t have an effect on their skilled boxing information, three judges ringside will decide a winner if the struggle goes the gap.