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Andreas HaleNov 4, 2025, 10:07 AM<\/p>\n
Close<\/a>Andreas 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.<\/p>\n Most Valuable Promotions announced Monday night that the exhibition boxing match between Jake Paul<\/a> and Gervonta Davis, scheduled for Nov. 14 at Kaseya Center in Miami, has been canceled.<\/p>\n The cancellation comes days after Davis was accused in a civil lawsuit filed by ex-girlfriend Courtney Rossel of battery, aggravated battery, false imprisonment, kidnapping and intentional infliction of emotional distress.<\/p>\n “Our team has worked closely with all parties to navigate this situation responsibly,” Nakisa Bidarian, CEO of Most Valuable Promotions, said in a statement. “While we will not be moving forward with this event, our plan still remains for Jake Paul to headline an event on Netflix in 2025. Details regarding a new date, location, Jake’s opponent, and additional bouts will be shared as soon as they are finalized.”<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks The highly anticipated exhibition fight between Davis and Paul was slated to headline a fight card on Netflix and had drawn significant attention because of the weight disparity between the two fighters. Davis (30-0-1, 28 KOs) is the current WBA 135-pound champion and one of the biggest stars in boxing, while Paul (12-1, 7 KOs) is significantly taller and last competed as a 200-pound cruiserweight. Paul is not nearly as accomplished as Davis but can rival him in terms of drawing power.<\/p>\n The fight was called off after the latest lawsuit in a long line of legal issues for Davis. In August, a domestic violence case filed against Davis by the mother of two of his three children was dropped. He has had numerous run-ins with the law over the years, including charges related to domestic violence and fleeing the scene of a car accident. Several of his cases have been dropped, but he was sentenced to a 90-day house arrest and three years of probation for a 2023 hit-and-run case in Baltimore.<\/p>\n After news of the latest lawsuit, Most Valuable Promotions reportedly pursued a replacement for Davis to keep the Nov. 14 event intact. Former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou<\/a> told TMZ Sports that he had been contacted by Paul’s team but declined the offer. Most Valuable Promotions reportedly also reached out to Ryan Garcia, Andre Ward and Nate Diaz<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fans who purchased tickets to the event via Ticketmaster will be refunded, the promotion said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andreas HaleNov 4, 2025, 10:07 AM CloseAndreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers MMA,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-261001","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\/261001","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=261001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/r1517739_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\")
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