{"id":22004,"date":"2025-11-04T10:56:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/jake-paul-v-gervonta-davis-fight-cancelled\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T10:56:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T10:56:15","slug":"jake-paul-v-gervonta-davis-fight-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/jake-paul-v-gervonta-davis-fight-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul v Gervonta Davis fight cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Jake Paul&#8217;s exhibition fight against lightweight world champion Gervonta Davis has been cancelled, Most Valuable Promotions has announced.<\/b><\/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\">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<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c0mxkvnv2zvo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Paul&#8217;s exhibition fight against lightweight world champion Gervonta Davis has been cancelled, Most Valuable Promotions has announced. The fight, scheduled for 14 November in Miami, was set to headline the Netflix-streamed event. The decision comes days after a lawsuit was filed against Davis by his ex-girlfriend accusing him of battery, aggravated battery, false imprisonment, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22006,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22004\/revisions\/22006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}