At the moment, MVP introduced that worldwide celebrity Jake “El Gallo” Paul (9-1, 6 KOs) will return to the ring for “Worry No Man,” a cruiserweight battle towards the extremely harmful naked knuckle champion boxer and MMA star “Platinum” Mike Perry (5-0, 3 KOs BKFC) on Saturday, July 20 at Amalie Area in Tampa, Florida, dwell on DAZN pay-per-view. Paul vs. Perry might be an eight spherical cruiserweight bout, as Paul faces his most harmful opponent thus far and places all of it on the road in an extremely dangerous struggle towards the baddest naked knuckle boxer of all time forward of his bout with the Baddest Man on the Planet, Mike Tyson. Boxing trailblazer and unified featherweight champion Amanda “The Actual Deal” Serrano (46-2-1, 30 KOs) may also return to the ring towards Tampa, Florida’s top-10 ranked IBF, WBO, and WBA expertise and KO artist, Stevie “Sledgehammer” Morgan (14-1, 13 KOs) within the co-main occasion. Serrano vs. Morgan might be a brilliant light-weight battle, contested over 10, two-minute rounds as Serrano goals to show her energy at tremendous light-weight towards the highly effective puncher, Morgan, forward of her conflict with Katie Taylor on Friday, November 15. Tickets for Paul vs. Perry and Serrano vs. Morgan at Amalie Area in Tampa, FL will go on sale Wednesday, June nineteenth at 12pm ET on Ticketmaster.com.
“Worry No Man” is offered by CELSIUS Stay Match Important Vitality. The undercard may also function the rematch of Crescent Metropolis, Florida’s Tony Aguilar (12-0-1, 4 KOs) vs. Orlando, Florida’s Corey “2Smoove” Marksman (9-0-1, 7 KOs) in an 8-round light-weight bout. Additional undercard fights might be introduced within the coming days.
Jake “El Gallo” Paul (9-1, 6 KOs) has proven great development as a boxer on his path to changing into a world champion, and now will face his most harmful opponent thus far, Mike Perry, on Saturday, July 20. Perry’s formidable knockout energy and fearless mentality will pose a real danger and take a look at for Paul because the 27-year-old goals to show he has what it takes within the ring towards his second youngest opponent thus far, the 32-year-old Perry, who is among the world’s most feared fighters and the baddest naked knuckle boxer of all time. Paul will however put all of it on the road forward of his bout towards the Baddest Man on the Planet, Mike Tyson on Friday, November 15. Since turning professional in 2020, Paul has collected a number of accolades for his dedication to the game of boxing, together with ESPNRingside’s 2021 Knockout of the 12 months, Sports activities Illustrated’s 2021 Breakout Boxer of the 12 months, ESPNRingside’s 2022 Viral Second of the 12 months, and was the quilt of Sports activities Illustrated’s “The 50 Most Influential Figures in Sports activities” situation, awarded particularly for his groundbreaking work to revolutionize the game by way of equitable pay, offering a platform for younger fighters, and his help of feminine boxers. Paul additionally not too long ago introduced a partnership with USA Boxing forward of the 2024 Paris Olympics, persevering with his mission to raise the game and its future champions.
Since headlining his first struggle, Paul has damaged data at each enviornment he’s fought at throughout his skilled profession, together with his first struggle at Tampa’s Amalie Area, Paul vs. Woodley II, which set the report for the best fight sports activities gate within the enviornment’s historical past. Paul now returns to problem his personal report at Amalie Area.
“When Paul vs. Tyson was rescheduled, I knew instantly that I needed to nonetheless struggle on Saturday, July 20. Now, as I put together for my struggle towards Iron Mike, there’s no higher opponent for me than Mike Perry,” stated Jake Paul. “He’s a confirmed knockout artist who has proven to be a maniac out and in of the ring. That is the right expertise for me to achieve upfront of dealing with Mike Tyson. However getting that have comes with danger. Those that know me know I’m a danger taker and whereas ‘Platinum’ Perry would possibly attempt to finish me, I’m Titanium Jake Paul and I concern no man. I’m going to get the W and provides everybody a preview of what I’m bringing to the ring towards Mike Tyson. Tune in on DAZN PPV as I return to Tampa and ship ‘Platinum’ Perry the Platypus again to reveal knuckle for good.”
“Platinum” Mike Perry (5-0, 3 KOs BKFC), probably the most harmful fighters in fight sports activities, steps into the ring with Jake Paul following his fearsome profession throughout the UFC, Triad Fight, and naked knuckle boxing. Following his 14-win profession within the UFC, boasting 11 wins by knockout, Perry made his Triad Fight debut in November 2021, taking up 27-3, 21 KOs seasoned boxer Michael Seals, demonstrating his skill to deal with energy punchers and outworking Seals to a cut up choice victory within the bout. Lower than three months later, Perry made his naked knuckle boxing debut with BKFC, securing his first win over Julian Lane in 2022, which he adopted with an exciting win over dynamic striker Michael “Venom” Web page later that yr. Perry’s bout with former UFC champion Luke Rockhold in April 2023 ended decisively with a second-round knockout, highlighting Perry’s hanging energy and relentless strain from the opening bell. In his BKFC “King of Violence” title struggle in December 2023 towards Eddie Alvarez, the first-ever fighter to change into a champion in each UFC and Bellator, Perry displayed his vicious energy but once more with a second spherical TKO on account of nook stoppage. Perry earned the 2023 Naked Knuckle Combating Championship Male Fighter of the 12 months and in April 2024, he expanded his undefeated report to 5-0 with a first-round KO of UFC veteran Thiago Alves. The bout served as the most recent testomony to the ability, tenacity and ability Perry will deliver to the ring towards Jake Paul on Saturday, July 20 for “Worry No Man”.
“Jake Paul claims he fears no man, however on Saturday, July 20, the world will see the reality: he simply made the worst mistake of his life in attempting to get by way of me earlier than Iron Mike,” stated Mike Perry. “I’m going to make it look simple on Saturday July twentieth, and I’m going to show Jake Paul probably the most he’s ever realized about preventing.”
Amanda Serrano (46-2-1, 30 KOs), the first-ever Puerto Rican undisputed world champion, began her present featherweight title reign by defeating Heather Hardy in a brutal 10-round struggle in 2019 to win the WBO belt, and has since defended her WBO belt six instances. Serrano supplied Hardy redemption in August 2023, however efficiently defended her undisputed featherweight world champion title for the primary time in a decisive 10 spherical unanimous choice victory. Serrano additionally gained a blood-soaked warfare towards WBA featherweight champion Erika Cruz in February 2023, which made her the undisputed featherweight champion. Serrano’s decisive win towards Cruz adopted her earlier win over Sarah Mahfoud in Manchester, England that added the Dane’s IBF title to her WBO, WBC, and IBO featherweight belts. Her historic conflict towards Katie Taylor at Madison Sq. Backyard in 2022 earned recognition as Sports activities Illustrated’s Struggle of the 12 months and The Ring’s Occasion of the 12 months and was additional nominated for Occasion of the 12 months by Sports activities Enterprise Journal. Most not too long ago, Serrano took dwelling a unanimous choice victory towards her necessary WBO challenger Danila Ramos, making historical past within the first-ever ladies’s unified world championship to be fought over 12, three-minute rounds, equal to any males’s championship struggle, and marking the primary time a ladies’s struggle has gone the complete 12×3. Serrano threw a profession excessive of 1103 punches within the bout. In honor of her trailblazing achievements inside and outdoors the ring, Serrano was additionally not too long ago awarded the Boxing Writers Affiliation of America (BWAA) Feminine Fighter of the 12 months for 2023. Following her bout towards Stevie Morgan on Saturday, July 20, Serrano is about to face Katie Taylor in probably the most anticipated ladies’s boxing rematch in fashionable historical past, for the undisputed tremendous light-weight ladies’s championship. Taylor vs. Serrano would be the co-main occasion of the rescheduled Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson mega-event at AT&T Stadium on Friday, November 15.
“I’ve already been getting ready for a struggle on Saturday, July 20, and though I’ll now be ready just a little longer for my rematch with Katie Taylor, this is a chance for me to face one other powerful boxer in Stevie Morgan in Tampa,” stated Amanda Serrano. “My opponent has 13 KOs, greater than nearly each different energetic feminine boxer, however I concern no lady – I embrace the warfare. I stay up for seeing all my Puerto Rican followers in Tampa for my fiftieth skilled struggle to point out the world my abilities at tremendous light-weight, dwell on DAZN PPV.”
Stevie Morgan (14-1, 13 KOs), the 34-year-old 5’8” light-weight expertise, has established herself as a formidable pressure within the boxing world. Born and raised in Tampa, Florida, Stevie was an athlete all through her faculty years, excelling in monitor and discipline, basketball, and soccer. Her journey into boxing started only a yr earlier than her first novice struggle, underneath the steering of coach John Cassella. As an novice, Stevie shortly rose to prominence with round 40 fights and accolades akin to Excellent Feminine Boxer and Florida Golden Gloves Champion. Stevie made her skilled debut on June 18, 2022, with Brandi Mccain’s One One Six Promotions in Memphis, Tennessee. Below the knowledgeable coaching of Monyette Flowers at Flowers Boxing Lab, she has continued to construct on her novice success as knowledgeable. Now in simply her second yr as a professional, she is at the moment ranked by the WBC and is within the high 10 of the IBF, WBO, and WBA world rankings.
“We’ve been coaching for a possibility like this, and I need to give full respect to Amanda for all she has achieved in her profession and for ladies’s boxing,” stated Stevie Morgan. “On this sport, although, with the intention to make a reputation, you must take a reputation. I’ve 13 KOs and nothing might be sweeter than making Amanda Serrano quantity 14. Come struggle night time on Saturday, July 20 there might be fireworks!”
“The stakes are excessive for each single one in every of MVP’s fighters entering into the ring on Saturday, July 20. For Jake and Amanda, the strain is on to emerge with a W towards two very harmful opponents in Mike Perry and Stevie Morgan,” stated Nakisa Bidarian, co-founder of MVP. “Jake Paul is dealing with a monster in Mike Perry. Amanda Serrano goes in there with a fighter who has 13KOs in 15 fights. Nothing is a given for our two superstars. We even have an unbelievable lineup of undercard fights coming collectively, the primary of which options extremely proficient light-weight prospects Aguilar vs. Marksman. This struggle will see these younger skills placing their undefeated data on the road and dealing to set a brand new precedent for hopeful title contenders within the sport. We’re excited to return to Tampa and placed on one other coronary heart racing night time of fights.”
Becoming a member of the undercard might be a battle of two of boxing’s up-and-coming light-weight prospects, Tony Aguilar (12-0-1, 4 KOs) vs. Corey Marksman (9-0-1, 7 KOs). The 2 have been longtime novice rivals earlier than turning professional, and now look to safe Florida bragging rights through the bout. The 25-year-old Aguilar, a Crescent Metropolis, FL native, returns to the ring off his newest three thrilling fights on MVP’s Most Beneficial Prospects sequence, together with his preliminary bout towards Marksman on Most Beneficial Prospects 5 in February 2024. He proudly represents his Mexican heritage within the ring, and is a relentlessly hard-working fighter who will look to maintain the motion excessive and his opponent guessing in his eagerly-anticipated rematch towards Orlando, Florida’s Marksman. Within the pair’s current faceoff, the 23-year-old Marksman matched Aguilar’s vitality and met the problem together with his personal aggression and energy. Aguilar, promoted by boxing legend Christy Martin, and Marksman fittingly fought to a cut up draw, a choice every will look to proper of their favor on Saturday, July 20 of their first main PPV appearances.
“It’s nice to have Jake Paul again on DAZN in one other motion packed, excessive danger struggle,” stated Jared Kass, SVP North America of DAZN. “With an unprecedented variety of top-tier fights yearly of DAZN, we’re happy to be including one other enormous struggle to our already packed summer season schedule. Watch the struggle solely dwell Saturday, July 20, solely on DAZN PPV.”
Paul vs. Perry and Serrano vs. Morgan: “Worry No Man” is produced and marketed by MVP with Boxlab Promotions serving because the official licensed promoter and is distributed by DAZN pay-per–view. CELSIUS Stay Match Important Vitality, maker of way of life vitality drink, is the unique vitality drink sponsor of MVP. Further info might be introduced within the coming weeks.
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