Jake Paul and Logan Paul will coach rival teams on a new fight competition series for Hulu and ESPN where, according to the official synopsis, “eliminations are not settled by a vote; they are settled by a fight.” The two networks announced the project Thursday, and casting is already open ahead of a 2027 production start.
The announcement lists the show as the “Untitled Paul Brothers Fight Competition Series,” though its casting website is branded Fight Game. The series comes from Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse and Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions, with both brothers serving as executive producers. Deadline reports it’s the first series Hulu and ESPN have greenlit together.
How The Paul Brothers’ Show Works
Fighters will be split into two teams, one led by each brother, and will live and train together in the wild. They also pick their own matchups, a format the announcement says turns “every alliance, every rivalry into a strategic weapon.”
The Pauls send the loser of each fight home until one man and one woman are left standing. According to Deadline, the fights won’t stick to a single discipline, with MMA, boxing, wrestling, jiu-jitsu, muay Thai and karate all part of the mix.
Who Can Apply For Fight Game
Applications are open at fightgamecasting.com, where Wheelhouse Studios lists the eligibility rules. Applicants must be at least 18 years old, legal U.S. residents and free of any felony conviction in the past 10 years unless it has been expunged.
Employees of the producer or network can’t apply, and neither can anyone whose immediate family or household members worked there in the past year. Candidates for public office are also ineligible.
The eight-step application asks for personal and athletic information, background details and each applicant’s story, along with photos and video.
MVP’s Disney Ties Grow
Deadline also reports Disney sees the series as a way to reach young male viewers, adding a male-skewing title to a Hulu unscripted lineup that mostly targets women.
The announcement comes six weeks after MVP merged with the Professional Fighters League, with PFL chief John Martin becoming CEO of the combined company. Paul has pitched the new company as a direct challenger to the UFC, and MVP already works with ESPN through a multi-year deal for its MVPW women’s boxing league.
On the MMA side, ESPN’s backing has been a sore point. At the PFL New York post-fight press conference following the merger news, Martin said he stood by his frustration with the network’s support of the promotion. “They just haven’t done much for us this year,” he said, per MMA Fighting.
Both brothers are working back from injuries as the project gets underway. Jake Paul (12-2) broke his jaw in a sixth-round knockout loss to Anthony Joshua last December, and Nakisa Bidarian recently told talkSPORT that Paul is cleared to spar in mid-September, with a return targeted for the end of the year.
Paul is also eyeing a 2027 MMA debut, the same year cameras are due to roll. Logan Paul remains out of WWE in-ring action while he recovers from a torn triceps.
