{"id":243282,"date":"2025-11-04T12:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/243282\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T12:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:40:08","slug":"jake-paul-v-gervonta-davis-fight-cancelled-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/243282\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul v Gervonta Davis fight cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jake Paul&#8217;s exhibition fight against lightweight world champion Gervonta Davis has been cancelled, Most Valuable Promotions has announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fight, scheduled for 14 November in Miami, was set to headline the Netflix-streamed event. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The decision comes days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c5y4g1nl8dvo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a lawsuit was filed against Davis by his ex-girlfriend<\/a> accusing him of battery, aggravated battery, false imprisonment, kidnapping and intentional infliction of emotional distress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After an investigation, MVP said the bout would &#8220;no longer be moving forward&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our team has worked closely with all parties to navigate this situation responsibly,&#8221; Nakisa Bidarian, CEO and co-founder of MVP, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Responding to the news of the fight&#8217;s cancellation on X, Paul said working with Davis was &#8220;an absolute nightmare&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m so sorry to everyone involved,&#8221; said Paul, co-founder of MVP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Mostly to the undercard fighters, to my team at MVP and to my team who worked so hard prepping for this fight.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Paul&#8217;s exhibition fight against lightweight world champion Gervonta Davis has been cancelled, Most Valuable Promotions has announced.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-243282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}