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Andreas HaleJul 8, 2025, 12:14 PM ET
- Andreas Hale is simply a combat sports newsman astatine ESPN. Andreas covers MMA, boxing and pro wrestling. In Andreas' escaped time, helium plays video games, obsesses implicit euphony and is simply a White Sox and 49ers fan. He is besides a big for Sirius XM's Fight Nation. Before joining ESPN, Andreas was a elder writer astatine DAZN and Sporting News. He started his vocation arsenic a euphony writer for outlets including HipHopDX, The Grammys and Jay-Z's Life+Times. He is besides an NAACP Image Award-nominated filmmaker arsenic a shaper for the animated abbreviated movie "Bridges" successful 2024.
Former women's IBF bantamweight champion Ebanie "The Blonde Bomber" Bridges has signed a woody with Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions.
Born successful Sydney, Australia, and warring retired of Sheffield, U.K., Bridges (9-2, 4 KOs) won her archetypal satellite rubric successful 2022 by defeating Maria Cecilia Roman and had a palmy rubric defence earlier losing to Miyo Yoshida successful 2023.
Bridges has been retired of enactment aft giving commencement to her archetypal kid successful February, but she said she hopes to instrumentality to the ringing earlier the extremity of 2025.
"Ebanie Bridges is simply a prima successful each consciousness of the word," Most Valuable Promotions co-founders Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian said successful a statement. "She's a satellite champion, a proven summons seller, and a unit of property who brings caller audiences into boxing. Now a devoted parent connected a ngo to reclaim her title, she continues to interruption boundaries some successful and retired of the ring. We're thrilled to invited different Aussie to the MVP household and can't hold to assistance instrumentality her vocation to adjacent greater heights."
Before Bridges turned pro successful 2019, she had a palmy amateur career, winning the 2016 and 2017 nationalist Golden Gloves. She was a precocious schoolhouse teacher successful New South Wales, Australia, earlier deciding to prosecute her boxing dreams full-time successful the U.K. Bridges besides has a monolithic pursuing connected societal media with much than 800,000 followers connected Instagram.
"MVP has ever been charismatic to me, and I emotion what Jake Paul has done with Amanda Serrano and women's boxing," Bridges, 38, told ESPN. "I emotion their passionateness and genuine involvement successful women's boxing. I'm excited to enactment with a promoter who knows I tin enactment arsenic a squad to beforehand me, alternatively than feeling similar I'm doing each the dense lifting with my ain aforesaid promotions and marketing."
