Gervonta Davis has publicly broken his silence on the cancelled boxing match with Jake Paul, insisting the YouTuber-turned-boxer pulled out because he was “getting beat up in camp” — not because of the civil lawsuit that Paul’s camp says forced the November fight to be scrapped.
Davis vs Paul was originally scheduled to headline a Netflix event, but plans fell apart after ex-girlfriend Courtney Rossel filed a lawsuit against Davis in late October. Paul has since moved on to a blockbuster bout with Anthony Joshua on December 19, a drastically tougher challenge than the lightweight star would have posed. Davis, however, suggests there was more to the cancellation than legal trouble.
After months of silence, he briefly reactivated his X account to make his claims. In a post later deleted along with his profile, Davis wrote:
“He was getting his a– beat in camp. I was gonna do him bad… But everything happens for a reason.”
He also denied wrongdoing related to the lawsuit and accused Paul’s promotion company of mishandling negotiations, saying:
“MVP couldn’t uphold nothing… MVP IS GARBAGE! Y’all run nothing at Netflix. Y’all are just workers.”
Jake and Logan Paul have maintained the opposite, claiming the fight fell through because of Davis’s “repeated issues with women,” with Logan stating protection concerns led Netflix to step back.
With Paul now preparing for a heavyweight showdown with Anthony Joshua and Davis hinting at “more opportunities in the future,” tensions between the two remain high — and their rivalry may not be over just yet.
