Logan Paul admits \u2018heroic\u2019 act in saving Rey Mysterio\u2019s life actually \u201calmost killed him\u201d WWEWWE United States Champion and influencer Logan Paul reflected on a much-talked-about moment from his last match in which WWE veteran Rey Mysterio almost landed directly on his neck, admitting that what many thought was quick thinking was actually a misstep on Logan Paul\u2019s part. Logan Paul defeated Rey Mysterio at the recent WWE event, Crown Jewel, winning his first-ever championship in the United States title. While many viewers and industry stars praised the match, one particular spot from the bout garnered major attention. The spot in question being when Rey Mysterio went for a backward somersault off the ropes and almost landed straight on his head. Logan Paul thought quickly to drop down and catch the WWE veteran before he landed and potentially did some serious harm. As a result, many have been praising Logan Paul online for his last-minute save, a moment that the influencer turned WWE star spoke about during his most recent episode of the IMPAULSIVE podcast. When reflecting on the moment, Paul expressed that it was a scary incident and that he does think his quick thinking saved Rey Mysterio\u2019s life. However, he also acknowledged that if he had been unable to catch him, it could have ended very badly indeed. \u201cLook, I\u2019m going to come clean, because I\u2019ve seen all these positive headlines right, \u2018Logan saves Rey Mysterio\u2019, the Mexican community going crazy, they\u2019re praising me, saying I\u2019m sort of a hero & so I\u2019m like dang, I\u2019m being recognized for doing something cool I\u2019ll take it. \u201cUpon assessing my performance, while I do think I did save Rey Mysterio\u2019s life I think I also almost killed Rey Mysterio.\u201d The new United States champion then went into much greater detail about the incident and how his positioning was a factor in why Rey Mysterio was almost injured. \u201cI think I was too far back for the move & I think he didn\u2019t clear enough ground for the move, that\u2019s what happened like\u2026I was too far back & he didn\u2019t clear enough ground we both made a mistake & I had to catch him & I wasn\u2019t gonna not catch him so like truthfully while I like the headlines & I like being gassed up like this, I was just doing my job.\u201d For all the latest entertainment news and updates, be sure to check out Dexerto\u2019s full coverage here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Logan Paul admits \u2018heroic\u2019 act in saving Rey Mysterio\u2019s life actually \u201calmost killed him\u201d WWEWWE United States Champion and influencer Logan Paul reflected on a much-talked-about moment from his last match in which WWE veteran Rey Mysterio almost landed directly on his neck, admitting that what many thought was quick thinking was actually a misstep […]<\/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-53763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53763","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=53763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}