Most Valuable Promotions today announced the return of superstar Jake \u201cEl Gallo de Dorado\u201d Paul, who will headline a major event on Thursday, December 24, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The bout comes one year after Paul suffered a broken jaw in his showdown with former two-time unified heavyweight world champion Anthony Joshua.<\/p>\n
The Christmas Eve showdown marks Paul\u2019s first professional fight in Dubai. His opponent and event details will be revealed in the coming weeks. The return is part of a cooperation agreement between the Dubai Sports Council, the Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism, and MVP, highlighting the city\u2019s status as a hub for global combat sports.<\/p>\n
Since debuting in 2020, Paul has become a top commercial attraction. His November 2024 fight with Mike Tyson drew 125 million Live+1 viewers globally, while his December 2025 bout against Anthony Joshua drew 33 million Live+1 viewers worldwide.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve spent years proving people wrong, taking risks, and pushing myself against opponents nobody thought I\u2019d face. Nothing that\u2019s happened has changed my belief in myself or what I\u2019m working toward,\u201d Jake Paul said. \u201cI\u2019m hungrier than ever, and on Thursday, December 24, I\u2019m returning to the ring in Dubai to start the next chapter of my journey. Dubai is a city that thinks big, breaks boundaries, and doesn\u2019t believe in limits. That\u2019s exactly the kind of place I want to make my comeback. We\u2019ve got plenty of names on the list; let\u2019s see who signs the contract. Merry Christmas, Dubai. Santa Paul is coming to town, and somebody\u2019s getting knocked out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most Valuable Promotions today announced the return of superstar Jake \u201cEl Gallo de Dorado\u201d Paul, who will headline…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,512338,9225,167942,66428,85],"class_list":["post-945108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-dubai-sports-council","tag-jake-paul","tag-most-valuable-promotions","tag-mvp-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945108","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=945108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}