Avious Griffin continues to strengthen his team.
The rising welterweight is the latest boxer to join the growing Most Valuable Promotions (MVP) roster, the company announced on Tuesday. Griffin’s signing comes just more than a year after he relocated to Las Vegas from Chattanooga, Tennessee to join forces with the training team headed by Brian ‘BoMac’ McIntyre.
“I’m thrilled to join Most Valuable Promotions, a team that truly values fighters and their stories,” Griffin told BoxingScene in a provided quote. “Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian are building something special, giving athletes like me a platform to shine.”
MVP – headed by Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian – has spent much of the year loading up what has become, by far, the strongest roster of women in boxing.
Its signing of Griffin, 17-0 (16 KOs), is more in line with its roots when the company was founded in 2021. MVP has continued to scoop up several amateur standouts and rising prospects.
Griffin not only fits that mold but comes with a life journey unlike nearly anyone else in the sport today.
Fittingly to his resurgence, Griffin’s joining the MVP roster comes seven years to the day when he was jailed. He was 24 years old and 4-0 on this day in May 2018 when he was accused of a 2017 murder.
Griffin was incarcerated for eleven months before he was exonerated due to the overwhelming evidence which proved his innocence.
“Avious Griffin is an exceptional talent whose combination of elite power, mental toughness, and personal resilience positions him for long-term success in the sport,” Paul and Bidarian said in a joint statement. “His compelling backstory and knockout ability make him one of the most exciting rising contenders in boxing, and we believe he has the potential to become a global star.
“We’re proud to welcome Avious to the MVP family and give him the platform he deserves to reach the top of the sport and inspire the world in the process.”
Griffin is 13-0 (12 KOs) since he resumed his career in 2021. The 31-year-old has stopped each of his last ten opponents, even as he continues to elevate the level of his opposition.
In his most recent start, Griffin earned an eighth-round stoppage of Jose Luis Sanchez on a February 20 BoxingInsider.com show from Sony Hall in New York City. The fight was Griffin’s first to go past six rounds, and his lone career knockout beyond the third round.
His poise in dominating the fight prior to its ending was the perfect visual Griffin’s upward trajectory after the levels of adversity he’s had to endure beyond the ropes. Two years prior to his wrongful incarceration, Griffin lost his father, Alvin, to a brain hemmorhage.
“My journey hasn’t been easy, but it’s made me who I am—a fighter in and out of the ring. With MVP behind me, I’m ready to chase world titles, while being a motivational inspirational vessel of God and show the world what Tha Underdog is all about.”
Griffin now joins a roster that includes record-setting seven-division world champion Amanda Serrano and undisputed junior lightweight queen Alycia Baumgardner among a slew of reigning women’s champions.
On the male side of the roster, Griffin is accompanied by rising lightweight contender Lucas Bahdi, India’s Neeraj Goyat and hot prospects Alexis ‘Chop Chop’ Chapparo and Jan Paul Rivera.
Details are expected in the coming weeks of his official MVP debut.
Jake Donovan is an award-winning journalist who served as a senior writer for BoxingScene from 2007-2024, and news editor for the final nine years of his first tour. He was also the lead writer for The Ring before his decision to return home. Follow Jake on and .