{"id":218206,"date":"2025-10-16T17:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218206\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:14:07","slug":"paul-vs-davis-ex-ufc-fighters-anderson-silva-and-chris-weidman-to-compete-in-boxing-mactch-on-paul-vs-davis-undercard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/218206\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul vs Davis: Ex-UFC fighters Anderson Silva and Chris Weidman to compete in boxing mactch on Paul vs Davis undercard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Weidman and Anderson Silva will fight in a six-round heavyweight bout on the undercard of Jake Paul’s exhibition bout<\/a> against Gervonta Davis on 14 November in Miami, Most Valuable Promotions has announced.<\/p>\n

Weidman, 41 and Silva, 50, fought in the UFC, with Weidman winning both their back-to-back encounters in 2013.<\/p>\n

American fighter Weidman ended Silva’s seven-year reign as UFC middleweight champion with his first win and both men have since retired from MMA.<\/p>\n

Silva has competed in five boxing matches, losing two of those bouts.<\/p>\n

The Brazilian, widely considered one of the greatest MMA fighters of all time, last boxed in 2022 when he was beaten by Paul.<\/a><\/p>\n

Weidman retired from the UFC in January, finishing his MMA career with 16 wins and eight losses, and will be competing in his first boxing fight.<\/p>\n

Paul’s exhibition bout with lightweight world champion Davis will be held at the Kaseya Center in Miami.<\/p>\n

There are three world titles on the undercard, including Alycia Baumgardner’s defence of her featherweght titles against Leila Beaudoin.<\/p>\n

The event will be streamed by Netflix and is being promoted by Most Valuable Promotions, Paul’s own company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Weidman and Anderson Silva will fight in a six-round heavyweight bout on the undercard of Jake Paul’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-218206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218206","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=218206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}