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Two champions Oshae Jones and Tiara Brown clasp their belts and 2 caller champions crowned
Most Valuable Promotions’ (MVP) MVPW-04 took spot connected Saturday, June 13, astatine Caribe Royale Resort successful Orlando, Florida, streaming unrecorded connected ESPN+ and delivering a championship-filled nighttime of boxing to a sold-out crowd.
Headlined by MVP’s IBF ace welterweight satellite champion Oshae Jones (9-0-1, 3 KOs), who retained her satellite rubric aft a hard-fought gully against mandatory challenger Elia Carranza (11-2-1, 3 KOs), the lawsuit besides featured a palmy rubric defence from MVP’s undefeated WBC featherweight satellite champion Tiara Brown (21-0, 11 KOs), who outworked antecedently unbeaten top-ranked contender Hannah Rapp (8-1-1, 5 KOs) to clasp her title.
The paper besides saw 2 caller champions crowned arsenic Panama’s Nataly Delgado (21-7-2, 5 KOs) captured the WBA ace flyweight satellite rubric aft an unanimous determination triumph implicit MVP’s Jasmine Artiga (15-1-1, 7 KOs) and Mexico’s Estefany Alegria (15-1, 4 KOs) scored a large unanimous determination triumph implicit MVP’s Evelin Bermudez (22-2-1, 8 KOs) to go the unified WBO, WBA, and IBF airy flyweight satellite champion, earning MVP’s $20,000 Performance of the Night bonus presented by Caribe Royale Resort.
Also, MVP’s undefeated Brazilian boxer and societal media sensation Jully Poca (1-0) impressed successful the preliminary paper headliner, defeating chap pro debutant Monica Medina (0-1) by unanimous determination successful a professionally sanctioned rematch of their November 2025 bout. Additionally, MVP’s Head of Boxing, Mike Leanardi, was presented with the IBF’s 2025 grant recognizing MVP arsenic the astir progressive pistillate boxing promoter, underscoring the company’s continued enactment successful advancing women’s boxing connected the planetary stage.
At the property league pursuing the fights, the fighters had overmuch to discuss. For much information, travel connected X via @MostVPromotions oregon connected Instagram via @MostValuablePromotions.
MIKE LEANARDI:
On MVPW-04: “MVPW-04…sold retired assemblage from the Caribe Royale successful Orlando, Florida. Four satellite rubric fights, a mates of large upsets, and tons and tons of action. I anticipation everyone enjoyed the show. It’s our archetypal W amusement successful present successful Orlando and successful Florida.”
On selling retired MVPW-04: “We sold out. It’s a testament to the tremendous women’s merchandise that MVP is putting on.”
OSHAE JONES:
On her feelings astir her gully vs. Elia Carranza: “It’s truly frustrating and discouraging. I worked truthful hard this combat to alteration my benignant and marque it much clearer for the win, and it’s conscionable unfortunate that the judges didn’t spot it.”
On whether she’d look Elia Carranza successful a trilogy bout: “I privation to determination on. I don’t privation to proceed warring her. I consciousness similar I support giving her the accidental to beryllium connected TV and instrumentality my belts. When she fights me, these are the biggest fights she’s ever had, truthful I consciousness similar she needs to beryllium grateful that I’m adjacent giving her the opportunity. I wouldn’t urge different fighter.”
On the biggest quality betwixt her 2 bouts with Elia Carranza: “I consciousness similar the biggest quality was me. I was 100% physically and mentally. The archetypal fight, I had a mates of things, similar idiosyncratic things, that I had to overcome, and I consciousness similar my grooming was great. I was successful a three-month camp.”
On the quality successful Elia Carranza’s warring benignant compared to their archetypal bout: “I felt similar she was benignant of reserved this time. She was much cautious this time, and it was much of a back-and-forth chess match, dissimilar past time. It was similar a brawl.”
On doing a longer campy than usual: “I usually bash campy for six to 8 weeks, but this campy I did for 3 months due to the fact that it was a large level and I didn’t privation to marque immoderate mistakes.”
On her mentation for the bout: “We did everything we were expected to bash to get the win. I worked truthful hard. I meditated this camp. I was conscionable truthful focused this camp. It was conscionable different.”
On her promotional debut with MVP: “It was astonishing to beryllium with MVP for my pro debut. I consciousness similar I did great. I consciousness similar I performed the champion I ever person yet successful my pro career.”
On warring connected ESPN: “It was truthful breathtaking to beryllium connected ESPN+, 1 of the biggest platforms for sports, period. I’m truthful honored to beryllium present and to beryllium a portion of MVP due to the fact that they’re truly changing women’s lives.”
TIARA BROWN:
On who she’ll combat next: “I privation large names. Whatever accidental arises for me, immoderate my squad says, immoderate this feline [Mike Leanardi] close present says, and the WBC. I volition support this belt.”
On her plans for the future: “I would similar to combat for much belts successful the featherweight division. I deliberation I’ve proven contiguous that I’m present and that I’m not going anywhere.”
On wanting to go undisputed astatine 126 lbs: “I bash privation to pursuit greatness and combat for the different belts, and erstwhile I get them, I would similar to determination up, erstwhile I’m done astatine 126, and determination up to 130 lbs.”
On her dedication to boxing: “I was calved to box. I eat, sleep, dream, and deliberation astir boxing 365 days a year. I don’t instrumentality a break. I deliberation I’ll instrumentality a interruption erstwhile I retire, truthful until past I’m chasing greatness.”
On her conditioning: “My conditioning is truly good. I judge successful preparation, and I judge if you enactment ready, you ne'er person to get ready.”
On however she trains: “I ever bid similar I’m the underdog. Every time. I don’t place anyone. I don’t attraction if the hostile has 1 fight. I bid arsenic if she’s the champion combatant connected the planet.”
On her promotional debut with MVP: “I’m conscionable truthful blessed and highly favored to beryllium a portion of this promotion. Jake Paul…hats disconnected to him. He’s done thing that each of these promoters for implicit a decennary person said cannot beryllium done. They said nary 1 watches women’s boxing, that there’s nary instrumentality basal and nary wealth there. Then a YouTuber came on and said, ‘I judge successful them. I’m going to springiness them a chance.’ And that’s precisely what he’s done. I’m truthful grateful that he’s believed successful maine and allowed maine to beryllium a portion of this promotion company.”
On dedicating this combat to a erstwhile student: “A batch of you cognize that this combat was successful grant of my combatant that I trained, Landen, who took his beingness connected Valentine’s Day. I stayed focused circular by round, and I conscionable kept saying his sanction successful my mind. I conscionable kept saying Landen. It was making maine privation to excavation deeper and springiness each that I have.”
On thanking her supporters: “This was my archetypal clip successful my nonrecreational vocation warring successful Florida. I’m from Ft Myers, which is astir 3 hours distant from here. I’m truthful grateful for each the fans, friends, and household that came and drove up present to ticker maine fight.”
ESTEFANY ALEGRIA:
***All quotes person been translated from Spanish to English.
On becoming unified WBO, WBA, and IBF airy flyweight satellite champion: “I consciousness precise blessed astir this infinitesimal and to execute my imagination of becoming a satellite champion. Not conscionable 1 title, but 3 titles. This represents a batch not lone for me, but for my team, and my parents. I’m precise excited.”
On however she felt erstwhile she won her titles: “It’s thing that’s hard to explain, but determination is simply a batch of emotion. Lots of happiness and information for what’s to travel successful the future.”
On thanking her supporters and team: “I admit God, my promoter, and besides the idiosyncratic who has been with maine moving my vocation since the archetypal day: Giber Lopez.”
On being an underdog: “The triumph means a batch much erstwhile they don’t judge successful you. We’re present to amusement that dreams bash travel existent and everything is possible.”
On what’s adjacent for her: “First of all, I privation to instrumentality a bully interruption and we’ll spot what’s coming distant for maine and it’s going to beryllium important for me. I’ll fto maine promoter fig that out.”
On her warring style: “I’m a versatile fighter. I similar to premix it up and combat astatine adjacent region and spell toed to toe, but besides container from the outside.”
On warring successful Florida: “This was different illustration of what I bash warring present successful Florida. I’m precise appreciative of the radical successful Florida for supporting me.”
NATALY DELGADO:
***All quotes person been translated from Spanish to English.
On defeating Jasmine Artiga to seizure WBA ace flyweight satellite title: “I’m precise appreciative and excited too. Thank you to everyone for being present and to MVP for this large opportunity.”
On dreaming of capturing the WBA ace flyweight satellite title: “I’m going to beryllium honorable with you guys. I had already dreamed that moment. I really cried successful my dream. I felt a batch of emotions that I knew I was going to consciousness astatine that point. It was the infinitesimal that I person been moving truthful hard for each this clip successful my career.”
On preparing to look Jasmine Artiga: “We hired a near handed sparring spouse who had a akin benignant to [Jasmine] Artiga.”
On if she’d to a rematch vs. Jasmine Artiga: “Whatever happens I don’t person a problem. I would alternatively bash a unification with Irma Garcia.”
On being Jasmine Artiga’s mandatory challenger: “I got this accidental due to the fact that of hard enactment and discipline. That’s the result.”
On making her US debut unrecorded connected ESPN: “It’s a imagination travel true, and what a mode to bash it. One of the champion promoters astatine the moment, filled with galore champions, truthful I had to amusement what I’m made retired of and I did it.”
On MVP readying to invited Delgado backmost to the promotion for her adjacent fight: “Thank you for the space, and I person truthful overmuch much to offer.”
On being an underdog: “No substance wherever you are, dreams tin go true.”
On her husband, who trains her, not being capable to be the fight: “We knew the enactment that we had to deliver. We did a large preparation. Of people him not being present meant a batch to me. I wanted him to beryllium here, but I knew that I came present for a crushed and we did it.”
JULLY POCA:
On her connection to her supporters: “First of all, I won! Nice. Thank you for each your support. Thank you for everything.”
On her thoughts aft defeating Monica Medina: “I americium blessed for this infinitesimal and to beryllium present with MVP.”
On erstwhile she knew she won the fight: “When we touched gloves, the miss looked down astatine my feet, and I said, ‘Okay.’ Then I touched gloves and said, ‘Okay, I’ll termination you.’”
On her camp: “I’m grooming with the American girls. I’ve done bully sparring. I trained with Katie Taylor, you know? So, I’m learning a lot.”
On grooming with Katie Taylor: “She texted maine connected Instagram and said, ‘Good work.’ I’ve done galore sparring sessions with her, and she’s tough. She’s amazing. When she bushed my look the archetypal time, I said, ‘Thank you truthful much. You’re amazing.’”
On her past with martial arts: “I started martial arts a agelong clip agone erstwhile I was a kid. I had a hard beingness successful Brazil, and I americium a woman, and women person an work to support themselves.”
On her past viral video: “Martial arts for maine is important, and for women is important. I ever accidental connected my Instagram and connected my societal media that if you’re a woman, you request to support yourself. I had the lawsuit with the Uber due to the fact that I tin bushed the guy, and I cognize however to support myself.”
On representing Brazil: “I’m a Brazilian woman, and I consciousness conscionable truthful fucking happy! That’s it.”
On Keno Marley’s first-round TKO implicit Jordan Gruszewski: “He trained with maine successful Brazil. I’ve been sparring with him, truthful seeing him [Marley] sound him [Gruszewski] retired was amazing.”
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