{"id":81041,"date":"2025-08-20T21:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/81041\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T21:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:20:08","slug":"jake-paul-to-fight-world-champion-gervonta-davis-on-14-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/81041\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul to fight world champion Gervonta Davis on 14 November"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul beat 39-year-old former world champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr by unanimous decision in his last fight.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old earned a decision victory against 58-year-old Mike Tyson<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n

Davis retained his WBA lightweight title in his last contest after fighting to a draw against Lamont Roach Jr<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n

In January, Davis was ranked number eight in the pound-for-pound rankings.<\/p>\n

Paul has been on a mission to try and convince the boxing fraternity of his ability since making his professional debut in 2020.<\/p>\n

After beating a YouTuber, a former NBA player and three former UFC fighters, Paul fell to his first defeat at the hands of Tommy Fury in 2023.<\/p>\n

But with a disparity of around 65lbs between Paul and Davis in their last fights this bout will do little for either fighter’s reputation.<\/p>\n

There is also a significant height difference with Paul standing at 6ft 1in compared to the 5ft 5in ‘Tank’, while Davis will be giving up nine inches in reach.<\/p>\n

The contracted weight, number of rounds and size of gloves for the exhibition are yet to be confirmed.<\/p>\n

Paul wore bigger 14oz gloves and contested shorter rounds against Tyson, given the former world champion’s age.<\/p>\n

There are striking similarities to when Paul’s older brother, Logan, fought Floyd Mayweather<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n

Mayweather, an undefeated five-weight world champion, was 35lbs lighter and six inches shorter than his opponent during that exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul beat 39-year-old former world champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr by unanimous decision in his last fight. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-81041","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\/81041","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=81041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}