Posted on 3/08/126 by Colin Vassallo
Logan Paul’s $1 million boxing fight against NFL players is
not happening after WWE put the brakes on Paul’s project.
The former United States champion claimed that no NFL player
could beat him in a boxing match and made an offer of $1
million for a fight.
A couple of NFL players did respond to his open challenge,
including Le’Veon Bell, Breiden Fehoko, Dion Dawkins, and
Antonio Brown.
But during a live stream, Paul got a call from Chris
Legentil, WWE’s Talent Relations & Head of Communications,
who told Paul he’s going to have to stand down.
“Bro, I’m not going to get injured. These guys can’t box,”
Paul told Legentil. “They’re football players. There’s no
risk!”
Legentil brought up the risks of Paul getting injured and
messing up the plans for WrestleMania and Paul tried to
sweet-talk his way back in by trying to convince Legentil
that he’s ready to cut WWE in his winnings.
“Because I’m going to make $2 million in a weekend,” Paul
said.
“We’re good on the money,” Legentil replied. “We just would
prefer you not to be boxing.”
Paul eventually agreed to abort his mission and said that at
the end of the day, he’s a WWE Superstar and his loyalty is
with WWE.
“If I do not have their blessing to do some extracurricular
activities that are unrelated to the WWE, like boxing, as
much as I would love to do it, I got to honor my job and my
commitment to my profession,” Paul said.
He later posted on X, “Welp. The bosses called. Turns out
I’m too valuable of a WWE Superstar to be fighting bums.”
He congratulated Bell and Fehoko for their “15 minutes of
relevancy” and told them to go back to “being broke and
retired.”