{"id":306701,"date":"2025-07-31T13:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306701\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T13:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:40:13","slug":"boxing-mvp-jake-paul-who-could-claressa-shields-sign-with-as-a-promotional-free-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306701\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: MVP & Jake Paul – who could Claressa Shields sign with as a promotional free agent?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the outside looking in, Jake Paul’s MVP seems like the natural fit despite some public verbal sparring with Shields.<\/p>\n

Shields took issue with MVP billing the winner of Katie Taylor v Amanda Serrano 3 as the women’s pound-for-pound number one.<\/p>\n

Undefeated in 17 fights, Shields lays a strong claim to that spot. MVP houses several of the best fighters in the world – including many of Shields’ natural rivals – with lightweight world champion Terri Harper the latest fighter to join.<\/a><\/p>\n

Hartlepool’s Marshall and newly crowned unified super-middleweight champion Shadasia Green are also with MVP. Shields is a former champion at the weight and already has a win over Marshall. Marshall remains the last woman to beat Shields in the amateurs in 2012.<\/p>\n

Shields says she is open to speaking to every promoter.<\/p>\n

“If their vision doesn’t align with my vision, then I’ll walk away. I don’t got any smoke with any of these entities,” Shields said on Ariel x Ade: The Boxing Show., external<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite being American, Shields’ promotional options in the United States are perhaps limited.<\/p>\n

Top Rank has just two females on its roster. The long-time number one boxing promoter in the US, Top Rank has no current TV deal after ending its association with ESPN last Saturday.<\/p>\n

Al Haymon’s Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) doesn’t have a single female fighter signed to it.<\/p>\n

It is MVP who has provided the biggest platforms for female fighters in the US in recent years. They staged an all-female card on Netflix in July, with six million people tuning in to watch. Reports suggested Taylor and Serrano split \u00a314m for that contest.<\/p>\n

Shields herself says she believes she should earn a minimum of \u00a33.8m per fight. That is a big number to start at and probably out of reach for most of the promoters in the world.<\/p>\n

But Shields is entertaining inside and out the ring, surely she would appeal to MVP and its Netflix partners?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From the outside looking in, Jake Paul’s MVP seems like the natural fit despite some public verbal sparring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-306701","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\/114948133577683292","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306701","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=306701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}