{"id":211140,"date":"2025-10-13T21:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T21:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/211140\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T21:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T21:31:09","slug":"australias-cherneka-johnson-to-defend-undisputed-world-title-on-jake-paul-vs-gervonta-davis-undercard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/211140\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia’s Cherneka Johnson to defend undisputed world title on Jake Paul vs Gervonta Davis undercard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia’s first undisputed world champion of the four-belt era, Cherneka Johnson<\/a>, will defend her bantamweight crown on the Jake Paul<\/a> undercard next month.<\/p>\n

Johnson (18-2) will square off against Canada’s Amanda Galle in the preliminary card headliner on November 15 (AEDT) in Miami, Florida.<\/p>\n

The 30-year-old, who was born in New Zealand, only won the gold in July against Shurretta Metcalf<\/a> but is wasting little time stepping back into the ring.<\/p>\n

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“I’m pumped to be back in the ring again before the end of the year! It’s been a while since I’ve been this active, and I’m loving it,” Johnson said.<\/p>\n

“I can’t wait to be part of the massive Jake Paul vs Tank Davis card, show the improvements we’ve been working on, and bring my belts back home.<\/p>\n

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Cherneka Johnson celebrates her world title win\u00a0Getty Images for Netflix<\/p>\n

“Amanda Galle came up after my fight vs. Shurretta Metcalf in NYC, showed respect, and said she wants what I’ve got. I can’t blame her, I’d be chasing all the belts too.”<\/p>\n

Johnson has struck a deal with Most Valuable Promotions, which is headed up by Paul, and the pair have since formed a close working relationship.<\/p>\n

MVP co-founder Nakisa Bidarian said the fight will be “non-stop action”.<\/p>\n

“Sugar Neekz Johnson is set to become Australia’s first-ever defending undisputed champion in the four-belt era, while Canada’s top 118lb contender Amanda Galle has the opportunity to make a global name for herself and become the first Canadian-born undisputed champion,” he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“Even with the short notice, this will be a non-stop all action fight with both fighters ready to make a statement and go to war.”<\/p>\n

The event will be broadcast globally on Netflix, will be headlined by the ever-polarising Paul taking on Gervonta “Tank” Davis in a cruiserweight clash<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Davis currently holds the WBA lightweight championship, but has moved up seven weight classes to cash in on an opportunity of a lifetime against Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia’s first undisputed world champion of the four-belt era, Cherneka Johnson, will defend her bantamweight crown on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-211140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}