Roughly a month after defeating Mike Tyson, Jake Paul has added to his boxing promotion roster.
Most Valuable Promotions on Friday introduced the signing of two-time Canadian Olympian and newbie world champion Tammara “Tamm” Thibeault.
Thibeault competed at each the Tokyo and Paris Olympics, making the quarterfinals within the 2020 video games; she didn’t have comparable success this previous summer season, shedding within the spherical of 16 because the third seed within the match.
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Tammara Thibeault (Jam Media/Getty Images/File)
However, Thibeault gained gold within the middleweight class on the 2022 IBA Women’s World Boxing Championships; she additionally took house the title on the 2023 Pan American Games.
“I’m past excited to be a part of Most Valuable Promotions,” Thibeault stated in a press release. “The second has come to begin a brand new journey, and I really consider that with MVP, I’ll have the chance to convey one thing nice to girls’s skilled boxing. Amanda Serrano has been an unimaginable inspiration, championing girls’s alternative on this sport, and I’m proud to comply with her instance by competing beneath males’s guidelines—with three-minute rounds—towards Natasha Spence in my professional debut at present. This is just the start, and I can’t wait to begin this superb journey!”
Tammara Thibeault (Eddie Keogh/Getty Images)
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“Tamm Thibeault has the talents inside and out of doors the ring to make sure she has a protracted and profitable boxing profession,” Paul and MVP co-founder Nakisa Bidarian added. “As a two-time Canadian Olympian and newbie world champion, Tamm has already confirmed herself as one of many sport’s brightest rising stars. Her resolution to compete beneath males’s guidelines in her skilled debut is a groundbreaking second, and we’re honored to help her as she units a brand new customary for what’s potential in girls’s boxing. The anticipation for her professional debut on Most Valuable Prospects 10 tonight is only the start, and we’re excited to see her proceed inspiring athletes worldwide and showcasing her skills in an MVP occasion in Canada in 2025.”
Thibeault turns into the third lady on the roster, becoming a member of Serrano and Shadasia Green. Serrano’s bout against Katie Taylor at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, was broadly thought to be the combat of the night time, whereas Green gained the WBO super-middleweight belt earlier that night.
Tammara Thibeault of Canada (Gonzalo Gonzalez/Jam Media/Getty Images/File)
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Thibeault makes her professional debut on Friday night time, and Paul and Serrano are anticipated to attend.
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