Roughly a month after defeating Mike Tyson, Jake Paul has added to his boxing promotion roster.
Most Priceless Promotions on Friday introduced the signing of two-time Canadian Olympian and beginner world champion Tammara “Tamm” Thibeault.
Thibeault will grow to be the primary girl in historical past to make her professional debut beneath males’s guidelines – 4 three-minute rounds – when she steps within the ring on Friday at Most Priceless Prospects 10, with Paul and Amanda Serrano in attendance.
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Tammara Thibeault (Jam Media/Getty Pictures/File)
Thibeault competed at each the Tokyo and Paris Olympics, making the quarterfinals within the 2020 video games; she didn’t have related success this previous summer time, shedding within the spherical of 16 because the third seed within the event.
Nevertheless, Thibeault gained gold within the middleweight class on the 2022 IBA Ladies’s World Boxing Championships; she additionally took dwelling the title on the 2023 Pan American Video games.
“I’m past excited to be a part of Most Priceless Promotions,” Thibeault mentioned in a press release. “The second has come to begin a brand new journey, and I actually consider that with MVP, I’ll have the chance to deliver one thing nice to girls’s skilled boxing. Amanda Serrano has been an unbelievable inspiration, championing girls’s selection on this sport, and I’m proud to comply with her instance by competing beneath males’s guidelines—with three-minute rounds—in opposition to Natasha Spence in my professional debut at the moment. That is solely the start, and I can’t wait to begin this wonderful journey!”Â
Tammara Thibeault (Eddie Keogh/Getty Pictures)
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“Tamm Thibeault has the abilities inside and out of doors the ring to make sure she has an extended and profitable boxing profession,” Paul and MVP co-founder Nakisa Bidarian added. “As a two-time Canadian Olympian and beginner world champion, Tamm has already confirmed herself as one of many sport’s brightest rising stars. Her choice 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 commonplace for what’s doable in girls’s boxing. The anticipation for her professional debut on Most Priceless 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.”
Tammara Thibeault of Canada (Gonzalo Gonzalez/Jam Media/Getty Pictures/File)
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Thibeault turns into the third girl on the roster, becoming a member of Serrano and Shadasia Inexperienced. Serrano’s bout in opposition to Katie Taylor at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, was extensively considered the struggle of the evening, whereas Inexperienced gained the WBO super-middleweight belt earlier that night.
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