{"id":836277,"date":"2026-07-30T16:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/836277\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T16:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:50:08","slug":"reports-jake-pauls-mvp-to-merge-with-pfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/836277\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Jake Paul&#8217;s MVP to merge with PFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Combat sports platforms MVP and PFL are merging.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Wall Street Journal report and confirmed by others on Thursday, the companies will form under the MVP banner. PFL, aka Professional Fighters League, will be rebranded &#8220;MVP MMA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian, co-founders and board members, will lead the new company, with John Martin serving as CEO and board member.<\/p>\n<p>Bidarian will continue to oversee MVP&#8217;s boxing business and events. <\/p>\n<p>MVP, aka Most Valuable Promotions, was founded by Paul and Bidarian in 2021, primarily as a boxing circuit.<\/p>\n<p>The PFL was founded by venture capitalist Donn Davis in 2017 before being launched in 2018 through a restructuring of the World Series of Fighting.<\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 20, 2023, PFL enlarged its holdings by acquiring competitor Bellator MMA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Combat sports platforms MVP and PFL are merging. According to a Wall Street Journal report and confirmed by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-836277","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\/836277","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=836277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}