A quartet of world title fights will feature on the Jake Paul “vs” Gervonta Davis undercard on Friday, November 14 in Miami, so if you’re a more serious boxing fan who scoffs at the ridiculous exhibition
bout that headlines that show, Most Valuable Promotions is giving you some reasons to tune in.
The Netflix main broadcast will have the Paul vs Davis exhibition, of course, plus two of those world title bouts.
Alycia Baumgardner (16-1, 7 KO) will defend the WBA, IBF, and WBO super featherweight titles against Leila Beaudoin (13-1, 2 KO). You may notice that the WBC belt isn’t part of that, and that’s because Baumgardner has vacated that belt in order to make this a fight of 12, three-minute rounds, which the WBC is lagging behind endorsing for women’s fights, insisting on staying at 10, two-minute rounds for women’s championship fights, even when the alternative is requested by the fighters themselves.
So Baumgardner’s undisputed claim is no more, a combination of her choice and the WBC’s stubbornness, but then all these undisputed claims of recent years haven’t really amounted to a hill of beans other than their use in making marketing language easier if not particularly more effective in terms of fights or fighters generating more money than they would without it.
Beaudoin is a Quebec fighter with four straight wins following a 2023 trip to Mexico where she lost an upset again an opponent who came in with a 3-4-3 record. Having seen Beaudoin fight, she’s a clear underdog against Baumgardner, but she also is about as good an opponent as is available.
PBC’s Gary Antuanne Russell (18-1, 17 KO) will fight for an incredible second time this year, too, defending his WBA super lightweight title against Andy Hiraoka (24-0, 19 KO), who will finally be stepping up his competition after building his record in Japan against very carefully chosen opposition. Hiraoka will have had 14 months of inactivity by the time he gets into the ring in November.
On the preliminary portion of the card, Ellie Scotney (11-0, 0 KO) and Mayelli Flores (13-1-1, 4 KO) will fight for the undisputed super bantamweight championship, with Scotney defending her WBC, IBF, and WBO titles and Flores her WBA belt. Yokasta Valle (33-3, 10 KO) will put her WBC minimumweight title on the line against Yadira Bustillos (11-1, 2 KO) in another prelim bout. We’ll also see Avious Griffin (17-1, 16 KO) take on Cesar Francis (14-2, 9 KO) in an eight-round welterweight fight.
What do you think of the lineup?
