Logan Paul felt like his body was almost "split in half" whilst grappling with UFC champion Alexander Volkanovski.
The YouTube star spent time on the mats with featherweight king Volkanovski and middleweight champion Israel Adesanya at his base in Puerto Rico. Volkanovski and Adesanya recently became the first two UFC fighters to officially receive a sponsorship from Prime Energy, the immensely popular hydration drink owned by Paul and his business partner KSI.
Paul admitted Volkanovski got the better of him in the grappling session despite the UFC champion being considerably smaller than him. The YouTuber said of Volkanovski on his Impaulsive podcast: "You're the best in the world at what you do, I got to experience it. You are so strong and dominant, it's like I knew it going into it. You put me in a body lock and I felt like you could have tightened your legs so much and literally split me in half, I'm not doing BJJ again."
"We were drilling this body triangle, where you have someone in your legs and hold them. He goes 'My legs are short, I don't do the body triangle often'. Then when we actually went to do it, he almost kills me with the body triangle. Jiu-jitsu is a whole different beast, you don't want to fight a guy in the street who knows jiu-jitsu."
Volkanovski is one of the top pound-for-pound fighters in the UFC and the Aussie defends his featherweight title against Yair Rodriguez in the main event of UFC 290 next month. Volkanovski suffered his first UFC defeat in February as he lost a controversial decision to lightweight champion Islam Makhachev, coming up short in his bid to become a two-weight champion.
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The featherweight champion is looking to set up a rematch against Makhachev if things go his way against Rodriguez in Las Vegas. Paul gushed over Volkanovski's fights and insisted he is a big fan of his style, citing his title defence against Brian Ortega in September 2021 as a bout that impressed him specifically.
"You have always been a tough guy, that's the one thing I notice when watching you fight is how tough you are. When you escaped Ortega's choke, you came back and won that fight. I've said it before I even knew you, one of the first fights I saw of you that impressed me I had the instinct to speak on it because I could tell how fiery you were," Paul said.
