{"id":529263,"date":"2026-03-09T17:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/529263\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T17:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T17:49:08","slug":"espn-lands-multiyear-deal-with-mvps-new-womens-boxing-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/529263\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN lands multiyear deal with MVP\u2019s new women\u2019s boxing promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian\u2019s Most Valuable Promotions is \u201claunching a dedicated women\u2019s boxing platform\u201d called MVPW and has secured a multiyear rights deal with ESPN, according to Alex Weprin of the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. ESPN\u2019s deal with MVPW begins next month, when it will \u201cstream the first event,\u201d MVPW-01 on April 5 from London, and \u201ctelevise and stream MVPW-01 from Madison Square Garden.\u201d The deal with MVPW also \u201cgets ESPN back into the boxing business\u201d after its deal with Top Rank ended last year. ESPN also has been \u201cbulking up its women\u2019s sports coverage, including a significantly expanded WNBA deal, which will complement its exclusive women\u2019s March Madness coverage\u201d (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, 3\/6<\/a>). USA TODAY\u2019s Josh Peter noted MVP has 38 female boxers (USA TODAY, 3\/6<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian\u2019s Most Valuable Promotions is \u201claunching a dedicated women\u2019s boxing platform\u201d called MVPW and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,18577,1096,134,85,24353],"class_list":["post-529263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-combat-sports","tag-deals","tag-entertainment","tag-sports","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529263","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=529263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}