Logan Paul has called out Paddy Pimblett for a cage fight on the undercard of the planned super-fight between billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
Musk and Zuckerberg have both started training for a fight after the Tesla boss and new Twitter owner called out his Facebook founder rival last month. The American has been training in jiu-jitsu for years, and has shown off his fighting skills in the past while his opponent, who is much bigger, has minimal public experience.
And now Paul wants to finally make his long-awaited crossover into the cage by facing Pimblett, whom he has called out yet again after a number of efforts to make a fight happen. The YouTube star has boxed three times, twice against KSI and once in an exhibition with Floyd Mayweather, but has a wrestling background that he wants to put to use in the UFC.
“I’ll be honest, I pitched it,” Paul said on the latest episode of his podcast Impaulsive, where he has previously welcomed UFC boss Dana White as a guest. “I pitched it internally, I pitched it to the [executives] that be, if Elon Musk and [Mark] Zuckerberg fight, I will do my UFC debut on the undercard. I’ll fight for free, for charity.”
Paul has previously asked to face controversial kick-boxing world champion Andrew Tate, but with the American-born Brit on house arrest and facing multiple charges in Romania that bout is unlikely. Instead, he has told Pimblett to skip his usual gruelling weight cut and stay heavy for their meeting.
“You know who I want to fight actually cause that b**** ass Andrew Tate won’t fight me. Give me Paddy Pimblett,” Paul added. “Give me ‘Paddy the Baddy.’ In the offseason, that boy looks like a blimp and he’ll come up to my weight class and I’ll wallop him. He’s too small when he cuts weight. When he doesn’t cut weight he’s a f***ing horseshoe.”
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Pimblett fights at 155lb, whereas Paul's last weigh-in against Mayweather he tipped the scales at 189.5lb. However, the Brit does cut monstrous amounts of weight after ballooning between fights and has been known to get as heavy as 205lb during his holidays after a win.
Paul fears that the main event may flatter to deceive, and insists that the undercard must be filled up with massive fights to compensate for fans who buy the show. It is expected to break all pay-per-view records, and would see the proceeds all go towards charity.
“They’re going to need to stack the undercard,” Paul continued. “That’s why I’m throwing my at in because being honest with you, no offense to these boys, it’s going to be pathetic. That fight will be pathetic. Highly entertaining but come on. Make someone punch who doesn’t know how to punch and see how they look. Watch my first fight.”
