Former heavyweight world champion Floyd Mayweather, who retired in 2017 following a lucrative boxing match with Connor McGregor, will take on YouTuber Logan Paul in an exhibition boxing match next year.
Paul has fought only once professionally. It was in November 2019 and he lost to follow YouTube Personality KSI.
Mayweather, who is 43 years old right now, retired with a perfect 50-0 record to his name and 27 out of those had ended in knockout victories.
Paul, who is just 25 years old, has called out the legend on numerous occasions before, teasing him on various social media platforms. People were doubtful about the chances of this mismatch of a contest happening but it is finally going to take place now.
“These YouTube girls better find some Barbie dolls to play with cause I’m not the one for the kid games. Three years ago a fighter from the UFC said my name and I had to put a muzzle on that b****. Logan Paul can get the same treatment before I go conquer Japan again,” Mayweather had said in November.
If I caught him. If I caught Floyd with one punch, one punch. I would snap the **** in half. You know me, I am eight inches taller. I am 40 lbs heavier,” Paul replied.
Mayweather’s last professional bout fetched him a whopping $100 m as he beat McGregor.
He followed that up with an exhibition match against Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa as well, from which he earned a reported fee of $9m again. Mayweather defeated Nasukawa in just 140 seconds in this match.
The battle between Mayweather and Logan is now expected to take place on February 20 and it will be streamed on a pay-per-view mode. According to reports, the first one million subscribers will need to pay a fee of just 24.99 USD whereas the prices may soar up to as high as 69.99 USD afterwards.
Paul’s younger brother, Jake, also went on to fight with former NBA star Nate Robinson as an undercard of Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Jr exhibition in Los Angeles last week. Jake went on to win the match and that too hy knockout.
Paul is quite famous on Social media and he has a total of over 38 million followers on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter combined. He has 22 million subscribers on YouTube on top of that as well.
