{"id":53927,"date":"2025-01-28T18:11:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/logan-paul-explains-why-he-would-love-to-fight-paddy-pimblett-in-ufc-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T18:11:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:11:31","slug":"logan-paul-explains-why-he-would-love-to-fight-paddy-pimblett-in-ufc-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/logan-paul-explains-why-he-would-love-to-fight-paddy-pimblett-in-ufc-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Logan Paul explains why he would \u201clove\u201d to fight Paddy Pimblett in UFC &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Logan Paul explains why he would \u201clove\u201d to fight Paddy Pimblett in UFC EA SPORTS\/Instagram\/theufcbaddy\/LoganpaulFresh off his WWE debut, YouTuber turned boxer Logan Paul has revealed why he would love to square off against Paddy \u2018The Baddy\u2019 Pimblett if he were to ever fight in the UFC. Could Logan Paul be making a UFC debut in the future? During an interview with Ariel Helwani, \u2018The Maverick\u2019 expressed his desire to duke it out in the octagon with rising mixed martial arts star Paddy Pimblett. Logan Paul has made quite a name for himself in the combat sports world. The 27-year-old has fought inside of the boxing ring on three occasions including going the distance against 50-0 champion Floyd Mayweather. Now, despite a career in the WWE seemingly in the cards following his in-ring debut at WrestleMania 38, Logan Paul explained why he\u2019d want to fight Pimblett in the UFC. Logan Paul wants to fight Paddy Pimblett in UFC Speaking with Ariel Helwani on MMA Hour, Logan Paul revealed he found out who he\u2019d want to square off against if he was ever to do a UFC match. \u201cPaddy The Baddy,\u201d Logan smirked before listing off why he\u2019d want to face him. \u201cSwear to God. They say he\u2019s the next Conor McGregor. He\u2019s like super charismatic, he\u2019s entertaining as hell, he\u2019s on the come-up, he\u2019s young like me, he\u2019s got a real loud mouth.\u201d The older Paul brother also expressed how Paddy could put on 25 pounds in the \u201coff-season\u201d and reach a weight where the two could have a fair fight. If @LoganPaul ever fought in the UFC, he tells @arielhelwani why @theufcbaddy would be his choice of opponent \ud83d\udc40 #TheMMAHour \u25b6\ufe0f https:\/\/t.co\/gUWJ8LoYvO pic.twitter.com\/u2AvAFIhdi \u2014 MMA Fighting (@MMAFighting) April 6, 2022 \u201cHe can get up to 185 and I could get down to 185 and possibly do a UFC match,\u201d he explained. Paul further stated while he doesn\u2019t have any beef with the Liverpool upstart, he would invite him on his podcast to tell him that he would \u201clove to fight him in the UFC.\u201d Still, The Maverick wasn\u2019t exactly sure if he would be able to emerge victoriously and stumbled a bit when asked. \u201cI don\u2019t know. He\u2019s a good ass f**king fighter. And I\u2019ve never had an MMA fight, but if I\u2019m doing it obviously I think I\u2019m going to win.\u201d So far, Paddy hasn\u2019t responded to the challenge, but he has stated on multiple occasions that he would be down to fight Logan\u2019s brother Jake Paul. We\u2019ll just have to wait and see if Logan can make his wish come true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logan Paul explains why he would \u201clove\u201d to fight Paddy Pimblett in UFC EA SPORTS\/Instagram\/theufcbaddy\/LoganpaulFresh off his WWE debut, YouTuber turned boxer Logan Paul has revealed why he would love to square off against Paddy \u2018The Baddy\u2019 Pimblett if he were to ever fight in the UFC. Could Logan Paul be making a UFC debut [&hellip;]<\/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-53927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53927","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=53927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}