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Andreas Hale
Jake Paul’s Most Invaluable Promotions continued its funding in girls’s boxing with the signings of IBF tremendous middleweight champion Savannah Marshall and WBC interim light-weight titleholder Chantelle Cameron, the promotion revealed to ESPN on Monday.
The additions of the previous undisputed champions improve an already sturdy roster of ladies boxers, as Most Invaluable Promotions now boasts 4 of ESPN’s high 10 pound-for-pound fighters.
“Savannah Marshall and Chantelle Cameron are world-class athletes who characterize one of the best of ladies’s boxing and the proud custom of UK champions. Now, alongside Ellie Scotney, MVP represents probably the most dominant roster of UK girls’s athletes in boxing,” MVP co-founders Paul and Nakisa Bidarian mentioned in an announcement. “Like Amanda Serrano and Alycia Baumgardner, Savannah and Chantelle have reached the top of the game by turning into undisputed champions, giving them the expertise, perspective, and platform to guide the following era. We look ahead to asserting their MVP debuts within the coming weeks.”
Marshall (13-1, 10 KOs) is a two-division world champion. She held the WBO middleweight title from 2020 to 2022 earlier than dropping a unanimous choice to ESPN’s present No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter, Claressa Shields, within the first all-female boxing card in the UK in September 2022. She rebounded from the loss by defeating Franchon Crews-Dezurn in 2023 to change into the undisputed tremendous middleweight champion. Marshall is focusing on a return to the ring after attempting her hand in MMA, stopping Mirela Vargas within the first spherical at PFL Europe in Newcastle in June 2024.
“The plan is to assist Savannah in pursuing any fights she is focused on, which features a rematch with Claressa Shields,” Bidarian informed ESPN.
“I am delighted to say I am now a part of MVP — who, greater than every other promoter, acknowledge the worth that ladies convey to this sport,” Marshall mentioned. “As a two-weight world champion and beforehand reaching Undisputed, it solely feels pure to be right here, and I can not wait to start combating underneath their banner.”
Cameron (20-1, 8 KOs) grew to become the undisputed junior welterweight champion in 2022, when she dethroned Jessica McCaskill by unanimous choice. She additionally holds the excellence as the primary and solely girl to defeat Katie Taylor when she turned again the Irishwoman’s problem for her undisputed standing in 2023. Taylor would avenge the loss with an in depth majority choice win later that yr. Cameron has since received back-to-back fights and may have a watch on the winner of Taylor’s trilogy battle with Amanda Serrano on July 11.
“If whoever wins intends to maintain the belt over the long run, they should face Chantelle,” Bidarian mentioned of plans for Cameron.
“I am very enthusiastic about this transfer. MVP has been nothing however encouraging in talks concerning myself and feminine boxing,” Cameron mentioned. “It is a unbelievable alternative for the following stage of my profession and an unbelievable platform to showcase my boxing means.”
Marshall’s and Cameron’s debut fights with the promotion will likely be introduced within the coming weeks.