Andreas HaleSep 23, 2025, 10:40 AM
CloseAndreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers MMA, boxing and pro wrestling. In Andreas’ free time, he plays video games, obsesses over music and is a White Sox and 49ers fan. He is also a host for Sirius XM’s Fight Nation. Before joining ESPN, Andreas was a senior writer at DAZN and Sporting News. He started his career as a music journalist for outlets including HipHopDX, The Grammys and Jay-Z’s Life+Times. He is also an NAACP Image Award-nominated filmmaker as a producer for the animated short film “Bridges” in 2024.
The rules for the Nov. 14 showdown between Jake Paul and Gervonta Davis were revealed by Most Valuable Promotions co-founder Nakisa Bidarian at a Monday news conference in New York.
The fight will be a 10-round exhibition, with three-minute rounds contested at a maximum weight of 195 pounds. The fighters will wear 12-ounce gloves on the night of the fight.
By comparison, boxers who fight at welterweight (147 pounds) and lower wear 8-ounce gloves, which is what Davis is accustomed to.
Paul has fought all his bouts with 10-ounce gloves — normal for fights above welterweight — outside of the Mike Tyson exhibition last November, when both fighters wore 14-ounce gloves.
The Nov. 14 boxing match between Gervonta Davis and Jake Paul will be a 10-round exhibition contested at a maximum weight of 195 pounds and the fighters will wear 12-ounce gloves. Sarah Stier/Getty Images for Netflix
Although the Paul-Davis fight has been deemed an exhibition, meaning the result won’t impact either of their professional records, there will be three ringside judges scoring the fight and a winner will be determined if it goes the distance.
Last week, it was announced that the fight was relocated from State Farm Arena in Atlanta to Kaseya Center in Miami after Most Valuable Promotions withdrew its request to stage the fight in Georgia.
Rick Thompson, chairman of the Georgia Athletic and Entertainment Commission (GAEC), was critical of the fight taking place due to the weight disparity between the fighters and told USA Today that the promotional outfit was “promoting something they should not have been.”
Davis (30-0-1, 28 KOs) is the current WBA lightweight champion and weighed in at 133.8 pounds for his last fight, a controversial majority draw against Lamont Roach Jr. He has never fought at a weight class above 140 pounds in his professional career.
Paul (12-1, 7 KOs) is currently campaigning at cruiserweight and weighed in at 199.4 pounds for his June win over Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. He has weighed in as high as 227.2 pounds for the Tyson fight and as low as 183.75 pounds for his February 2023 loss to Tommy Fury.