Logan Paul accepts UFC star Khamzat Chimaev\u2019s fight challenge, but on his terms Instagram\/khamzat_chimaev\/loganpaulYouTuber Logan Paul has accepted a challenge to fight rising UFC star Khamzat Chimaev, but there is a big catch in order for the two to square off. Logan Paul has taken the fight world by storm. His boxing career has seen him square off against fellow influencer KSI, 50-0 champion Floyd Mayweather and he recently made his WWE debut at WrestleMania. Now, with the elder Paul brother itching to get into MMA as well, The Maverick has responded to a call out by undefeated UFC welterweight Khamzat Chimaev. During an interview with Ariel Helwani on MMA Hour, Paul expressed an interest in fighting the three-time Swedish National champion, but he would only do so on his terms. Logan Paul will fight Khamzat Chimaev on one condition Back in March, Chimaev told Paul he\u2019d be \u201cwaiting for him in UFC\u201d if Dana White gave him a chance to compete. While Paul has gone on to say he would want to fight Paddy Pimblett, he isn\u2019t ruling out a bout against Chimaev, but it won\u2019t be in the octagon. According to Paul, he\u2019s had a brief showdown with Chimaev before. Back in 2019, he trained in a gym in Sweden and noticed a \u201cbadass\u201d man staring at him who just so happened to be the upcoming UFC star. (segment begins at 20:20 for mobile users) \u201cI just showed up at the gym and sparred a couple of their guys,\u201d he revealed. \u201cThey didn\u2019t let me spar Khamzat. Yeah, no, he\u2019s a f***ing dog. I\u2019m not doing MMA with him. I\u2019d box him for sure. I\u2019d be more than happy to box him, but that\u2019s the problem, all these UFC guys are locked up. They\u2019re locked up. So it\u2019s hard to get a fight with any of them.\u201d So, don\u2019t get your hopes up to see Logan Paul fight Chimaev in UFC, but a boxing match is definitely a possibility \u2013 that is, if the mixed martial artist isn\u2019t competing for a title. On April 10, the Swede defeated the #2 ranked welterweight Gilbert Burns to jump to third overall in the rankings to set up a possible fight against Colby Covington in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Logan Paul accepts UFC star Khamzat Chimaev\u2019s fight challenge, but on his terms Instagram\/khamzat_chimaev\/loganpaulYouTuber Logan Paul has accepted a challenge to fight rising UFC star Khamzat Chimaev, but there is a big catch in order for the two to square off. Logan Paul has taken the fight world by storm. His boxing career has seen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}