{"id":84185,"date":"2025-08-20T17:28:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T17:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/84185\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T17:28:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T17:28:03","slug":"jake-paul-vs-gervonta-davis-boxing-match-booked-for-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/84185\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul vs. Gervonta Davis boxing match booked for Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But hey, this is boxing, so Paul will fight Davis instead, despite the fact that he outweighs \u201cTank\u201d by nearly 66 pounds. \u201cEl Gallo\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/6\/27\/24455636\/live-jake-paul-vs-julio-cesar-chavez-jr-ceremonial-weigh-in-results-staredowns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tipped the scale at 199.4 <\/a>ahead of his Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. fight last June while Davis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/2\/28\/24371918\/tank-vs-roach-weigh-ins-video-live-stream-results-pbc-fight-night-boxing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">clocked in at 133.8<\/a> for his first Roach fight back in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Paul (12-1, 7 KOs) vs. Davis (30-0-1, 28 KOs) will be held under exhibition rules this November on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cTalks for Paul to face Anthony Joshua collapsed over network issues,\u201c boxing reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeCoppinger\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mike Coppinger wrote on social media<\/a>. \u201dDavis was slated for a title fight rematch with Roach in August while Paul was in talks for a major step-up against Joshua, the former heavyweight champion. Instead, they will meet each other in what amounts to a show that will no doubt do big business, but is less fighting than it is entertainment given the weight disparity and exhibition rules.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWhen Floyd Mayweather faced Jake\u2019s brother Logan in an exhibition in 2021, Mayweather couldn\u2019t weigh more than 160 while Logan was capped at 190,\u201d Coppinger added. \u201cWould expect some similar exhibition rules for weigh ins here. And obviously much larger gloves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Joshua has yet to comment on losing his Paul payday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But hey, this is boxing, so Paul will fight Davis instead, despite the fact that he outweighs \u201cTank\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,36109,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-84185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84185","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=84185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}