Fighting Floyd Mayweather in an uneventful no-contest bout was far from the end of Logan Paul’s burgeoning combat sports career. Appearing on The MMA Hour, Paul admitted that while his record of 0-1-1 is a far cry from his brother Jake’s unblemished 5-0 record, but that he’s still considering a switch to MMA from the boxing ring.
Paul was a gifted wrestler in high school, and given American collegiate wrestling’s recent dominance in the UFC – with Jon Jones, Kamaru Usman, and Tyron Woodley among those whose wrestling prowess has reigned supreme – he’s seriously considering the MMA world in future.
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“Probably. I get bored. I get f*cking bored. I have so many interests and do so many things, it’s like, why not? Who the f*ck else is doing it? Or can? I think it’d be entertaining, I think it’d be great.
A few [people have offered]. There was one in Japan actually, that I still might end up doing. That excites me.” Japan was the infamous site of Logan Paul’s lowest moment, in which he filmed the “suicide forest” for his YouTube channel.
As for boxing, Paul is most interested in fighting Brazilian YouTuber Whindersson Nunes. “That’s who I would love to fight, to be honest with you.
Whindersson’s huge and we’ve been having a back-and-forth for a couple years now. I think, similarly to myself, he’s pivoted multiple careers and the kid obviously works hard and is disciplined, and I think it would be an amazing match with two massive entertainers.
He’s got 60 million or so followers on Instagram. He rivals some of the biggest celebrities in the world, and in Brazil I don’t think it gets much bigger than him. So the same way when I first boxed KSI, it was an international bloodbath, U.K. vs. the U.S.A., it would be cool to do United States vs. Brazil.”
The KSI fight led to a draw, and Logan Paul acknowledges that his brother Jake is the one who will most likely lead the charge in that sport. “I’m gonna leave that up to Jake.
He wants to be a real, live boxer. He wants to go 10-0. A) I don’t care. B) I’m already professionally 0-1, so I’ve ruined my chances. I’m 0-1-1.
What a lame start, dude. Like, f*ck it. I’ll just go on and put on some big shows, and hopefully we’ll see what happens with this Whindersson situation. But the next person I fight will get knocked out.
I have no doubt in my mind that me going from fighting the best fighter on the planet in Floyd Mayweather to any other person will end any other way than a knockout equivalent to that of my brother’s.”
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