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This collage of photos shows American professional boxer Ryan Garcia (left), Jake Paul (centre) and Gervonta Davis. \u2014 AFP\/Reuters<\/p>\n
Jake Paul has reportedly offered Ryan Garcia to replace Gervonta Davis as his opponent for his upcoming exhibition boxing match, international media reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n
YouTuber-turned-boxer Paul is expected to fight Davis in an exhibition contest on November 14 at Miami’s Kaseya Centre.<\/p>\n
The fight was set to become the first major boxing match to be scored by AI; however, since its announcement, it has been surrounded by controversy.<\/p>\n
Paul competes in the 200lbs division while Davis has never fought at more than 140lbs.<\/p>\n
However, Davis, who is the WBA world champion at 135lbs, will not have his title at stake.<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, the match was expected to go ahead, as both fighters had agreed to compete at a catchweight of 195lbs, using 12oz gloves to avoid injuries.<\/p>\n
However, after a huge U-turn on Friday night, the fight now looks to be dead in the water, with Paul expected to change the opponent.<\/p>\n
According to Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated, Netflix and Paul’s camp are searching for alternative options after Davis was accused of domestic violence in recent developments.<\/p>\n
“Netflix and [representatives] for Jake Paul have been exploring potential replacements for Gervonta Davis, sources familiar with the situation told Sports Illustrated,” Mannix wrote on X.<\/p>\n
“Paul-Davis, scheduled for November 14th, is in limbo after new allegations of domestic violence against Davis.”<\/p>\n
In July, on the complaint of his ex-girlfriend, Tank was arrested for the alleged assault, but was released on $10,000 bond shortly after being taken into custody.<\/p>\n
The domestic violence case was later dismissed, with the Miami-Dade State’s Attorney’s Office confirming the victim refused to prosecute further.<\/p>\n
Davis, who was also detained for domestic violence in December 2022, seemed to be in the clear, but new allegations now seem imminent.<\/p>\n
According to Mannix, Paul’s camp have reportedly offered former WBC interim lightweight champion Garcia and others to replace Davis.<\/p>\n
“Representatives for Jake Paul have made an offer for Ryan Garcia to fight Paul in December, two sources with knowledge of the offer told Sports Illustrated,” Mannix added.<\/p>\n
“Garcia is not the only opponent Paul\u2019s team has approached, as they aggressively pursue a replacement for Gervonta Davis.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This collage of photos shows American professional boxer Ryan Garcia (left), Jake Paul (centre) and Gervonta Davis. \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,29886,64938,26697,9225,1911,37653,85],"class_list":["post-255376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-davis","tag-garcia","tag-gervonta-davis","tag-jake-paul","tag-paul","tag-ryan-garcia","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255376","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=255376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}