Canadian boxers Beaudoin and Galle will fight for titles on Paul-Joshua card

Alondra Hernandez, right, and Amanda Galle trade blows during their bantamweight fight at the Most Valuable Prospects 15 event in Montreal, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

Canadian boxers Leila Beaudoin and Amanda (Bambola) Galle are back in the title hunt.

Both women were scheduled for separate championship bouts on a Nov. 14 card in Miami headlined by Jake Paul and WBA lightweight champion Gervonta (Tank) Davis. But Most Valuable Promotions, the promotion company co-founded by Paul, scrapped the card on Nov. 3 after Davis’s ex-girlfriend filed a civil lawsuit against him.

The card has been pushed back to Dec. 19 at Kaseya Center in Miami with Paul, an actor, influencer and boxer, now facing former heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua.

Both Canadian women are taking on the same opponents.

Beaudoin (13-1-0 with two knockouts) will meet undisputed super-featherweight champion Alycia (The Bomb) Baumgardner (16-1-0, 7 KOs) in the co-main event. The 31-year-old from Detroit holds the WBA, WBO, and IBF titles at 130 pounds, while Beaudoin is ranked No. 2 by the IBF and No. 4 by the WBO.

The title fight will be contested over 12 three-minute rounds.

Baumgardner also held the WBC world championship belt but chose to vacate it since that sanctioning body does not currently allow women to fight three-minute rounds.

Beaudoin, a 29-year-old from Levis, Que., has won four straight. In January 2024, she avenged her sole professional loss by defeating Mexico’s Elizabeth Chavez Espinoza via unanimous decision.

The weight limit for the super-featherweight division (also called junior lightweight) is 130 pounds.

Beaudoin, a Canadian amateur champion at 60 kilograms (132.3 pounds), turned pro in 2019 and won the WBO International super-featherweight title, a lesser championship, in August 2024.

Galle (12-0-1, 1 KO) will face Australian bantamweight world champion Cherneka (Sugar Neekz) Johnson (18-2, 8 KOs) in the headline fight on the undercard. Johnson holds the WBO, WBA, WBC and IBF titles at 118 pounds.

Galle is ranked No. 4 by the IBF and No. 5 by the WBA.

The 36-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., started in combat sports at age six, earning her black belt in karate after being inspired by TV’s “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.” Switching to boxing, she had her first fight at 16 and went on to win three national titles (in 2009, 2013 and 2018).

Galle turned pro in 2019. Her nickname Bambola, is Italian for doll.

A graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) in early childhood education, Galle trains at All Canadian Martial Arts Academy in Mississauga. Today she teaches boxing at the gym’s academy.

The Dec. 19 card will also feature a six-round cruiserweight boxing bout between former UFC champions Anderson Silva and Tyron Woodley, who is replacing the injured Chris Weidman.

The Paul-Davis bout was originally slated for Atlanta, but was moved to Florida, where it was sanctioned despite the difference in weight between the two fighters. Paul usually fights at cruiserweight while Davis holds a 135-pound title.

Because of that weight difference, the fight was billed as an exhibition bout, meaning the result wouldn’t be part of either of their professional records.

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This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 21, 2025

Neil Davidson, The Canadian Press