Most Valuable Promotions added to its wealthy roster of women\u2019s boxers Thursday by signing unbeaten No. 2 WBO and IBF contender Lupita Medina, 12-0 (3 KOs), of Southern California.<\/p>\n
With Jake Paul\u2019s promotion launching MVPW, which showcased a lightweight title fight on ESPN Saturday night featuring Hall of Famer Holly Holm versus WBA lightweight champion Stephanie Han, the opportunities for the 105lbs Medina, 22, are rich.<\/p>\n
Like recent signees Yokasta and Naomy Valle of Costa Rica last year, Medina offers Latin American heritage from Nicaragua.<\/p>\n
An ambidextrous fighter cornered by Edgar Jasso, Manny Robles and Matias Erb in at Legends Boxing Academy, Medina has attended Cal State Long Beach.<\/p>\n
Her brother was a former pro boxer and her father boxed in Nicaragua\u2019s amateur system.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m incredibly honored and grateful to join MVP. Being part of a promotion that is changing the game for women\u2019s boxing and giving female athletes the platform they deserve is exactly where I want to be,\u201d Medina said. \u201cTo be welcomed into a team that genuinely believes in investing in female fighters means a lot to me, and I\u2019m looking forward to doing my part in helping women\u2019s boxing continue to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paul and MVP co-founder Nakisa Bidarian issued a prepared co-statement regarding Medina\u2019s signing.<\/p>\n
\u201cLupita Medina is on the cusp of greatness as an undefeated 22-year-old talent, already ranked No. 2 in the world across two sanctioning bodies and representing the fighting spirit of Nicaragua every time she steps into the ring,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most Valuable Promotions added to its wealthy roster of women\u2019s boxers Thursday by signing unbeaten No. 2 WBO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,710,49,48,259132,84391,64389,82],"class_list":["post-715099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lupita-medina","tag-most-valuable-promotions","tag-mvp","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715099","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=715099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}