The Jake Paul vs. Gervonta Davis fight has a pulse again, but it comes with a giant asterisk. Yahoo Sports and ClutchPoints both ran updates on Tuesday saying the crossover could be back on the table, and Yahoo’s headline spelled out the condition in plain English: “If he figures out his legal situation.” According to sources close to the matchup, talks can only progress once Davis fully resolves his pending legal troubles. Until that happens, this is a conversation and nothing more.
The reporting so far is light on specifics. Nobody has floated a date, a venue or a purse number, and the coverage doesn’t lay out the details of Davis’s legal matters, so I’m not going to pretend to know more than the people closest to it. If anyone tells you this thing is signed, they’re selling you a bridge. The holdup sits on Davis’s side of the table, and no amount of promotional muscle from Paul’s camp can speed up a legal process.
Paul, meanwhile, has plenty on his plate. He’s booked against Cédric Doumbé on Thursday, Dec. 24, at the Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai, and the two are doing two face-offs this week. The first is in Paris on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 6 p.m. CET (12 p.m. EST). The second is in Dubai on Thursday, Nov. 12, at 6 p.m. GST (9 a.m. EST). Both press conferences are free and open to the public, and both stream on the MVP and PFL YouTube channels. Two pressers in three days across two continents is my kind of week, because somebody always says something dumb at the second one.
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He’s also busy wearing the promoter hat. Most Valuable Promotions, which Paul co-founded with Nakisa Bidarian, ran a card live on ESPN on Sunday that the company hyped with a tease claiming Paul had finally apologized. On Monday, MVP announced that Paul and Bidarian are all in on undefeated 140-pounder Albina “The Lion” Moldazhanova, who has finished all six of her pro wins by knockout.
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And Paul’s name keeps popping up in other people’s beefs too. Dana White, explaining to All Out Fighting why a $10 million Misfits Boxing offer for him and Eddie Hearn to box was a nonstarter, pointed to Mike Tyson fighting Paul at 58 or 59 and asked whether people had seen what Tyson looked like. Misfits co-president Mams Taylor insists the offer was real. White says he never got it.
My take is simple. I love a big-money crossover, and Paul vs. Davis would be a monster event, the kind of fight your cousin who hasn’t watched boxing since Mayweather-McGregor would buy. But nobody should treat this as close. It needs two things to happen before anyone books a venue. Davis has to get his legal situation sorted, and Paul has to get past Doumbé in Dubai on Christmas Eve. A bad night on Dec. 24 kills this faster than any courtroom could.
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