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<\/p>\n MVP CEO Nakisa Bidarian
\n Pitches Jake Paul Vs. Conor McGregor
\n … 2 Fights, MMA & Boxing<\/p>\n
\n Published
\n March 12, 2026
\n 12:30 AM PDT\n <\/p>\n
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TMZSports.com<\/p>\n
Jake Paul<\/a> vs. Conor McGregor<\/a> could be coming to not just a boxing ring near you, but also an Octagon … if Most Valuable Promotions CEO Nakisa Bidarian<\/a> has his way, telling TMZ Sports it’s the “perfect idea!”<\/p>\n Bidarian stopped by our studio for a sit-down with Babcock Tuesday afternoon, when he referenced what would surely be two of the most watched fights in the history of combat sports.<\/p>\n “Listen, I have the perfect idea,” Nakisa said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n “We do the MMA fight with Jake and Conor, and then we do the boxing match with Jake and Conor, perfect co-promotion. The fans get one of the biggest back-to-back fights in history.”<\/p>\n Obviously, it’s not the first time there’s been talk of the two superstars fighting, but it’s almost always been discussed as a boxing match, not a mixed martial arts contest.<\/p>\n Bidarian made it crystal clear … Paul is down to enter the cage.<\/p>\n “Jake would love to fight Conor McGregor in MMA.”<\/p>\n 37-year-old McGregor is under contract with the UFC … but the MVP CEO says the idea would be to do a co-promotion with Dana White and UFC.<\/p>\n Of course, it’s been a minute since Conor was last in the Octagon — July 2021, to be precise — when The Notorious snapped his leg against Dustin Poirier<\/a>. Conor last boxed professionally in 2017 … his megafight against Floyd Mayweather<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jake last boxed in December against Anthony Joshua<\/a>. He has never fought MMA professionally, though he wrestled in high school, so he’s got some ability on the mats.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Check out the full interview with Nakisa … the guys also talk Ronda Rousey<\/a> vs. Gina Carano<\/a>, Jon Jones<\/a>, Jake’s boxing legacy and much more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MVP CEO Nakisa Bidarian Pitches Jake Paul Vs. Conor McGregor … 2 Fights, MMA & Boxing Published March…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,44,82,865,866],"class_list":["post-530950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-tmz-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530950","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=530950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Jake](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/9d1cf2613fab4934b7151964841e0f25_md.jpg\")
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