Jake Paul didn’t wait for the opening bell to hand out the prize. On Saturday afternoon, hours before Lucas Bahdi and Floyd Schofield shared a ring in Chicago, he laid out the stakes in one blunt post.
“MVPs Lucas Bahdi vs Floyd Kid Austin. Big fight. 20-0 vs 19-0. Winner fights the midget Gervonta,” he wrote on X, adding that the card was “From Chicago, live on @DAZNBoxing.”
That is Paul calling his shot on Gervonta Davis without Davis anywhere near the conversation. Paul billed both fighters as MVP’s guys, so this reads as a promoter-side flex more than a done deal. Nothing in the material I’ve got shows Davis, his team or anyone else signing off on the idea. It’s one man’s post on a fight day. File it accordingly.
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The fight itself earns the attention on paper. Bahdi walked in at 20-0. Schofield, who fights under the nickname Kid Austin, walked in at 19-0. That’s 39 combined wins and zero losses, and one of those zeros had to go Saturday night. Most Valuable Promotions spent the week framing it as a coin flip, running fan polls on Oct. 7 and Oct. 8 asking who people liked. That’s a promoter who either loves both of his fighters or wants plausible deniability on Sunday morning. I respect it either way.
MVP also leaned on the weight. In a Thursday post, the promotion said Bahdi was “ready to become Champ at 135,” which tells you the division these two are pointed at and why Paul’s Davis talk lands where it does. The week ran on schedule: a press conference Thursday, a weigh-in Friday, and fight night Saturday, Oct. 10, streamed on DAZN, with Sportskeeda running live round-by-round updates.
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The Davis angle gives the winner a talking point the loser won’t get. An undefeated record is a nice thing to carry around until somebody takes it, and the guy who keeps his gets to walk into the next negotiation pointing at Paul’s post as if it were a contract.
It isn’t one. Until Davis or his camp responds, Saturday’s winner has a 21-0 or 20-0 record, a belt conversation at 135 and a Jake Paul tweet. Two of those three are worth real money.
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