{"id":257155,"date":"2025-11-02T18:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/257155\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T18:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:08:11","slug":"ngannou-diaz-amongst-names-approached-for-jake-paul-replacement-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/257155\/","title":{"rendered":"Ngannou, Diaz amongst names approached for Jake Paul replacement fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jake Paul vs. Gervonta Davis is on life support right now after a lawsuit was filed against Davis accusing him of some pretty horrendous physical violence against women.<\/a> Now we\u2019re learning that Paul may go back to the MMA well to try and replace his opponent.<\/p>\n

Paul vs. Davis was always an odd duck of a fight \u2014 Jake Paul weighed in at 227 pounds against Mike Tyson last year, while Gervonta Davis competes around 135 pounds. No one asked for this fight, and there\u2019s some speculation that weak interest is as much a factor in the decision to potentially scrap this fight as these latest \u201cTank\u201d accusations are.<\/p>\n

The current options, according to sources, include moving Paul to a Friday December 12th or 19th date. Most Valuable Promotions have sent out feelers to numerous possible opponents,<\/a> including two that may interest mixed martial arts fans: Francis Ngannou and Nate Diaz.<\/p>\n

Diaz already fought Paul in a 2023 boxing match that saw the unfocused Stockton son<\/a> lose a unanimous decision to \u201cThe Problem Child.\u201d He followed that up with a majority decision win over Jorge Masvidal in July 2024 and hasn\u2019t competed since.<\/p>\n

Nate recently commented on the Jake Paul fight, suggesting he was (finally)<\/a> interested in running things back.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was injured in this fight,\u201d he said above a clip of his fight with Paul. \u201cBut they trippin, I still won this fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIts all good tho, most people don\u2019t know s\u2014t about boxing,\u201d he added. \u201cIll get it back on the both the Paul sisters see u f\u2014kers soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ngannou hasn\u2019t fought since an October 2024 win in the PFL over Renan Ferreira, his first MMA fight since leaving the UFC in 2022 to go 0-2 in boxing against Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua. There\u2019s been a whole lot of talk about \u201cThe Predator\u201d potentially facing Deontay Wilder, but not much movement since boxing power broker Turki Alalshikh started working with noted Ngannou-hater<\/a> Dana White.<\/p>\n

With Paul desperate to salvage a big end-of-year fight, a potential payday for Diaz or Ngannou could sit somewhere in the eight figure range. With that much money in play, anything is possible. We\u2019ll keep you posted as this story develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul vs. Gervonta Davis is on life support right now after a lawsuit was filed against Davis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[36109,49,48,641,33601,638,82],"class_list":["post-257155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257155","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=257155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}