Logan Paul responds to claims Floyd Mayweather boxing match is postponed Instagram: Floyd Mayweather\/Logan PaulAfter news outlets reported that the highly-anticipated boxing match between boxing legend Floyd Mayweather and Logan Paul was being postponed, the YouTuber-turned-amateur-boxer responded to the rumor. On January 22, Irish sports journalist Donagh Corby, who reports on behalf of MMA Island, claimed in a Tweet that he was told the upcoming match \u2013 which was scheduled for 2o February \u2013 had been rescheduled, citing Logan Paul\u2019s own coach, Kelvin Moore. While no official reason was given for the delay from either Paul, Mayweather, or anyone representing them, Boxing News 24\/7 reported that the fight it got postponed due to a \u201cdistinct lack of interest\u201d. Now, the YouTuber has officially commented on the matter. BREAKING: Per Coach Kelvin Moore, the @FloydMayweather and @LoganPaul bout has been rescheduled. I’ve contacted @fanmio for comment. More to come on @MMAisland \u2014 Donagh Corby (@DonaghCorby_) January 22, 2021 Paul laughed at the \u201cnarrative\u201d that the fight had been delayed because of \u201clack of interest\u201d, citing the fact that attention has been on the bout for a while now. \u201cThere hasn\u2019t been a fight that\u2019s made this much noise [for] the whole year,\u201d Paul said. \u201cBro, just releasing this shit went viral as fuck.\u201d He went on to explain that there are complications fighting someone of high caliber, but that the match is very much still a go at some point in the future. \u201cThe complications are that, when you are dealing with someone like Floyd Mayweather, who is the most desired, highest paid fighter on the planet, and he operates at a certain caliber and the people around him want to make sure their talent, their fighter is performing at a certain level, there are a lot of hoops to jump through,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut yeah no, I\u2019m still going to beat the shit out of Floyd Mayweather or maybe he\u2019s gonna beat the shit out of me, who knows, the point is it\u2019s still going to happen.\u201d Read More: Lovely Peaches arrested for animal cruelty – The special exhibition fight, which Mayweather was set to come out of retirement for, was meant to be a pay-per-view event sponsored by Fanmio, a business offering video messages by celebrities. The rumors that a delay was coming had been around for a while, with fans noticing that Mayweather had taken Fanmio out of his Twitter bio. JLeon also hinted that a reschedule was on the horizon during the latest episode of Jeff Mayweather\u2019s podcast, where he said that he was \u201cstill waiting to hear the official date\u201d of the fight. https:\/\/twitter.com\/defnoodles\/status\/1353734579375378432?s=20 Fans have had mixed reactions to the alleged postponement. One Twitter user claimed that \u201cthis has been known by some fans for a couple of weeks now\u201d, while others were amused that \u201clack of interest\u201d is the alleged reason for the postponement. \u201cThat\u2019s really the worst for Logan Paul -not humiliation or losing but nobody giving a shit,\u201d another wrote. At the time of writing, Fanmio are still selling PPV access to the fight, with their website saying that the fight is set to happen in 27 days. It\u2019s unknown when this is going to be changed, however, or if Fanmio will refund buyers once the delay has been confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Logan Paul responds to claims Floyd Mayweather boxing match is postponed Instagram: Floyd Mayweather\/Logan PaulAfter news outlets reported that the highly-anticipated boxing match between boxing legend Floyd Mayweather and Logan Paul was being postponed, the YouTuber-turned-amateur-boxer responded to the rumor. On January 22, Irish sports journalist Donagh Corby, who reports on behalf of MMA Island, […]<\/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-58396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58396","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=58396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}