{"id":63116,"date":"2025-01-28T19:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/ufc-star-kamaru-usman-explains-why-logan-paul-should-fight-tyron-woodley-in-mma-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T19:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:36:16","slug":"ufc-star-kamaru-usman-explains-why-logan-paul-should-fight-tyron-woodley-in-mma-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/ufc-star-kamaru-usman-explains-why-logan-paul-should-fight-tyron-woodley-in-mma-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC star Kamaru Usman explains why Logan Paul should fight Tyron Woodley in MMA &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC star Kamaru Usman explains why Logan Paul should fight Tyron Woodley in MMA YouTube: ImpaulsiveFormer UFC Welterweight champion Kamaru Usman has explained why he believes an MMA fight between Logan Paul and Tyron Woodley would actually be competitive, despite Woodley\u2019s experience in the cage. Influencer crossover events have become increasingly common over the last few years, and it\u2019s got a large part to do with the early work that both Jake and Logan Paul did early on. The Paul brothers have been across boxing, professional wrestling, and have continually teased getting involved in MMA. Jake has signed a contract with the PFL to make his debut in their Super Fights division, but when it comes to Logan, he\u2019s been aiming a bit higher. Logan has gotten a bit of a green light from Dana White to fight in the UFC at some point \u2013 even though the UFC boss said it isn\u2019t a priority for him. And, if it were to happen, former UFC champion Kamaru Usman wants to see Logan fight one of Jake\u2019s rivals \u2013 Tyron Woodley. Kamaru Usman believes Logan Paul vs Tyron Woodley would be competitive in UFC That\u2019s right, Usman is keen to see Logan step inside the octagon and face Woodley \u2013 and even believes it would be competitive, despite the latter having way more experience. \u201cI don\u2019t want to say destroy (him), but I do think Woodley wins, for sure. I mean, the fight on the feet and throwing hands, Woodley is a better wrestler \u2013 accolade-wise \u2013 but how much time are we giving them?\u201d he said on the PBD Podcast. \u201cIt definitely makes things interesting. I wouldn\u2019t say they\u2019ll never go into MMA because I think they\u2019re young enough and smart enough, business-wise, to say \u2018if I\u2019m going to make X amount of dollars, why not?\u2019\u201d As noted, there has been a little bit of interest from the UFC in having Logan involved, but it\u2019s not exactly in the planning just yet. The imPaulsive host is currently the WWE United States Champion and has attended UFC events because of the merger between the two companies, so, you never know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC star Kamaru Usman explains why Logan Paul should fight Tyron Woodley in MMA YouTube: ImpaulsiveFormer UFC Welterweight champion Kamaru Usman has explained why he believes an MMA fight between Logan Paul and Tyron Woodley would actually be competitive, despite Woodley\u2019s experience in the cage. Influencer crossover events have become increasingly common over the last [&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-63116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63116","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=63116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}