Jake Paul promotion adds Marshall, Cameron

Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions continues its concern successful women's boxing with the signings of IBF ace middleweight champion Savannah Marshall and WBC interim lightweight titleholder Chantelle Cameron, the promotion revealed to ESPN connected Monday.

The additions of the erstwhile undisputed champions heighten an already beardown roster of women boxers arsenic Most Valuable Promotions present boasts 4 of ESPN's apical 10 pound-for-pound fighters.

"Savannah Marshall and Chantelle Cameron are world-class athletes who correspond the champion of women's boxing and the arrogant contented of UK champions. Now, alongside Ellie Scotney, MVP represents the astir ascendant roster of UK women's athletes successful boxing," Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian, co-founders of Most Valuable Promotions, said successful a statement. "Like Amanda Serrano and Alycia Baumgardner, Savannah and Chantelle person reached the pinnacle of the athletics by becoming undisputed champions, giving them the experience, perspective, and level to pb the adjacent generation. We look guardant to announcing their MVP debuts successful the coming weeks."

Marshall (13-1, 10 KOs) is simply a two-division satellite champion. She held the WBO middleweight rubric from 2020 to 2022 earlier dropping a unanimous determination to ESPN's existent No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter, Claressa Shields, successful the first-ever all-female boxing paper successful the United Kingdom successful September 2022. She rebounded from the nonaccomplishment by defeating Franchon Crews-Dezurn successful 2023 to go the undisputed ace middleweight champion. Marshall is targeting a instrumentality to the ringing aft trying her manus successful MMA, stopping Mirela Vargas successful the archetypal circular astatine PFL Europe successful Newcastle successful June 2024.

"The program is to enactment Savannah successful pursuing immoderate fights she is funny in, which includes a rematch with Claressa Shields," Bidarian told ESPN.

"I'm delighted to accidental I'm present portion of MVP -- who, much than immoderate different promoter, admit the worth that women bring to this sport," Marshall said. "As a two-weight satellite champion and antecedently achieving Undisputed, it lone feels earthy to beryllium here, and I cannot hold to statesman warring nether their banner."

Cameron (20-1, 8 KOs) became the undisputed inferior welterweight champion successful 2022 erstwhile she dethroned Jessica McCaskill by unanimous decision. She besides holds the favoritism arsenic the archetypal and lone pistillate to decision Katie Taylor erstwhile she turned backmost the Irishwoman's situation for her undisputed presumption successful 2023. Taylor would avenge the nonaccomplishment with a adjacent bulk determination triumph aboriginal that year. Cameron has since won back-to-back fights and volition person an oculus connected the victor of Katie Taylor's trilogy combat with Amanda Serrano connected July 11.

"If whoever wins intends to support the loop implicit the agelong term, they volition person to look Chantelle," Bidarian said of plans for Cameron.

"I'm precise excited astir this move. MVP has been thing but encouraging successful talks regarding myself and pistillate boxing," Cameron said. "This is simply a fantastic accidental for the adjacent signifier of my vocation and an unbelievable level to showcase my boxing ability."

Marshall and Cameron's debut fights with the promotion volition beryllium announced successful the coming weeks.