Logan Paul responds to \u201cknockout\u201d conspiracy after Floyd Mayweather boxing match Amanda Westcott for SHOWTIMEOne day removed from his exhibition bout with Floyd Mayweather, social media star Logan Paul has responded to rumors that he was briefly knocked out early into the pay-per-view Showtime fight. After months of build-up, Mayweather and Paul finally met inside the ring on June 6. While no official winner was announced, Paul survived all eight rounds against one of boxing\u2019s most accomplished figures. Obviously, the narrative has continued online following the bout. Paul argued that Mayweather\u2019s age was showing but Mayweather\u2019s promoter countered to say that he wasn\u2019t taking the fight seriously. All the while, one particular focal point has gained more traction than anything else: Was Paul briefly knocked out by a stiff shot from Mayweather? Many viewers began to speculate, and many pointed out how Mayweather was allegedly holding Paul up to prolong the fight. Hours after the fact and Logan Paul himself has now responded to the growing internet conspiracy. Get your tinfoil hats out everyone. The latest conspiracy is that Floyd KO\u2019d Logan but held him up to make sure it went the distance.pic.twitter.com\/x6VNjqlNKX \u2014 Dexerto (@Dexerto) June 7, 2021 \u201cMorning after the fight, not too shabby for fighting the best,\u201d he said in a June 7 Instagram story, showing off his minor bruises. \u201cI\u2019m seeing this narrative going around,\u201d he addressed, discussing the KO speculation head-on. \u201cThere\u2019s one part in the fight where Floyd punched me and I kind of leaned on him a little bit. It looks like I kind of went limp. People are trying to spin it and say that he knocked me out and caught me, kept me up to keep the fight going.\u201d For those that thought he was genuinely out on his feet, Paul completely shot down the false claim. \u201cShut the f*** up,\u201d he said. Just shut the f*** up. Stop trying to discredit what happened last night.\u201d While he was definitely caught with some heavy shots in the 24-minute contest, at no stage was Paul ever \u201crocked\u201d. The YouTuber continued: \u201cMake no mistake, he got a lot of good punches in. I got f***ed up with a couple of shots. But no, I never got knocked out.\u201d The biggest takeaway for Paul is that he survived. Eight rounds in the ring with boxing\u2019s most decorated athlete and Paul was able to endure. \u201cHe tried to take me out and he couldn\u2019t,\u201d Paul laughed. \u201cIt was great.\u201d There\u2019s no telling what might be next for the YouTuber. Whoever his next opponent may be, it\u2019s sure to generate plenty of buzz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Logan Paul responds to \u201cknockout\u201d conspiracy after Floyd Mayweather boxing match Amanda Westcott for SHOWTIMEOne day removed from his exhibition bout with Floyd Mayweather, social media star Logan Paul has responded to rumors that he was briefly knocked out early into the pay-per-view Showtime fight. After months of build-up, Mayweather and Paul finally met inside […]<\/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-54044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54044","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=54044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}