{"id":247706,"date":"2025-07-08T10:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T10:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/247706\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T10:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T10:04:10","slug":"jake-paul-why-did-chantelle-cameron-savannah-marshall-ellie-scotney-and-more-sign-with-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/247706\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Paul: Why did Chantelle Cameron, Savannah Marshall, Ellie Scotney and more sign with MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Not long after signing, Scotney was sipping filtered water in a luxury vehicle on her way to meet the MVP team in person for the first time. She had thought she&#8217;d need to book a taxi at the airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One day she was at a New York Knicks game sitting beside Irish icon Taylor, the next she was doing pads with Amanda Serrano at an open workout before joining her new stablemates at a glamorous news conference for Taylor v Serrano 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Money and exposure was a big part of convincing fighters to join MVP. An estimated 50m watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cy0l508r98do\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor&#8217;s light-welterweight title rematch with Serrano<\/a> on Netflix last November, with the rivals reportedly earning more than \u00a34m each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What I liked, which is rare from a promoter, is Nakisa is very transparent,&#8221; reveals Scotney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was like, &#8216;Ellie this is the Netflix show, not all of them are like this&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For Bidarian, the pitch was simple &#8211; look what MVP did for Puerto Rican Serrano, who went from a couple of thousand dollars per fight to millions in one night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re not fair-weather friends who show up because something is hot, we put muscle behind it,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They want people who want to be involved in big fights,&#8221; adds Scotney. &#8220;Give you the platform and make the fights with the right amount of money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northampton&#8217;s Cameron feels women&#8217;s boxing has been left behind in the past 12 months, at least in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Fights weren&#8217;t happening. Jake Paul&#8217;s come along and signed up all the top girls and the fights are there to be made again,&#8221; says the 34-year-old, who was previously signed to powerhouse promoters Matchroom and Queensberry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bidarian says MVP&#8217;s ultimate vision is to bring the fastest growing sector of boxing under one promotional roof.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What we&#8217;re trying to do is bring together a collection of talent that&#8217;s never been brought together before, male or female, to enable us to make the best fights possible on a consistent basis under one umbrella,&#8221; he explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not long after signing, Scotney was sipping filtered water in a luxury vehicle on her way to meet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-247706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114817051328587472","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}