Logan Paul has been talking about the possibility of moving to MMA for a long time, but it turns out that YouTubers and professional wrestlers actually tried to make their debut in 2024, but his offer was rejected.
He’s been keeping him busy lately, but the 29-year-old WWE superstar revealed in the latest episode of his podcast that he contacted Dana White about how he could appear at one of the marquee events he’d hosted this past year. Unfortunately, Paul says that the lack of response from White essentially gave him the answer.
“I told Dana to UFC 300, I texted him, ‘Hey guy, think I can fight in the underwear of the realm,” Paul said. I haven’t bothered him ever since.
“I think for the right fight, the right amount (I would do that), and I’m a celebrity at the end of the day.”
Currently, Paul actually references two different cards, with the UFC 300 being held this April at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, and the UFC 306 being held in a sphere. Either way, Paul didn’t take the enthusiastic response exactly from the white, so he just let go of the idea.
Paul was the third-place finisher in the Ohio state final in all ways that might actually be suitable for a potential career in MMA with a wrestling background – he feels that perhaps another WWE standout may have ruined it for everyone else.
In 2014, CM Punk – real name Phil Brooks – signed a multi-fight contract to compete in the UFC after leaving WWE. He made his debut less than two years later, but it didn’t work for him as Punk suffers from a first-round obedience loss biased towards Mickey Gull, and he dropped a unanimous decision to Mike Jackson in his only other UFC fight in 2018.
Since then, Punk has returned to WWE, and he is one of the organization’s biggest stars, but Paul can’t help but wonder if a failed experiment in the UFC has convinced White to give him a future professional wrestler with the same move.
“He found it,” Paul said of the punk. “He raised it and then Dana was like, ‘I’m never doing this again.’
“But I’m not a commercial punk. He’s a great wrestler and not a UFC fighter. I think I’ll just be a much better UFC fighter than a boxer. My skill is wrestling. I’m a wrestler.”
Paul’s background in amateur wrestling, coupled with the skills he picked up through several boxing matches, including a showdown with Floyd Mayweather, may at least be a good fit to try out MMA, but that sounds like it won’t happen.
Paul says he is now more devoted than ever to his career at WWE as he was seriously considering the move when he contacted the UFC CEO at his offer.
“I think I found a way,” Paul said. “I’m a WWE superstar now and that’s one of the only things I’ve done in my life. I don’t know if I want to leave it at this point and give my time to something like side quests.”