{"id":150451,"date":"2025-09-17T13:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/150451\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T13:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:28:08","slug":"jake-paul-v-gervonta-davis-fight-in-jeopardy-over-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/150451\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul v Gervonta Davis fight in jeopardy over rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MVP, co-founded by Paul and Nakisa Bidarian, is the organiser and on Wednesday pre-sale tickets were still available to buy for the event at State Farm Arena in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The venue is also still listing the fight in its calendar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Paul v Davis was set to be an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/clyvrl54p87o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exhibition fight<\/a> but there has been no clarification about which rules will apply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Davis is a lightweight world champion, fighting at 9st 9lb (61kg), while Paul has fought most of his career at cruiserweight, which is 14st 4lb (90.7kg).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fight would not count on their professional records and a weight agreement would need to be reached.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The GAEC was scheduled to vote on the issue on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They probably evaluated a situation &#8211; knew that their weight differences were too much,&#8221; said Thompson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport has asked MVP for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MVP, co-founded by Paul and Nakisa Bidarian, is the organiser and on Wednesday pre-sale tickets were still available&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-150451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}