Logan Paul vs. Jake Paul? Brothers remain undecided on potential super fight

Say what you’ll about Sunday’s boxing exhibition between retired pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather and YouTube star Logan Paul however one truth stays indeniable: the eight-round bout has firmly caught the eye of the informal sports activities and popular culture worlds. 

It is probably not the hardcore combat fan’s most well-liked cup of tea, after all, which has led to many utilizing descriptors equivalent to carnival and circus to explain the construct. Conversely, others have praised the combat’s spectacle nature by calling it the professional wrestling of boxing, which often is the most apt description on the finish of the day. 

With out query, all the pieces that occurs after the 44-year-old Mayweather (50-0, 27 KOs) touches gloves with Paul (0-1), 26, contained in the ring (Showtime PPV, 8 p.m. ET) to begin their combat shall be very actual, as will the implications — each bodily and to their respective reputations — primarily based upon the end result of this combat, dubbed “Bragging Rights.” 

However it’s exhausting to disregard simply how “professional wrestling” the build-up to the combat has felt from the standpoint of unpredictability — together with Logan’s brother Jake Paul stealing Mayweather’s hat at their Could 6 press convention to ignite a mini-brawl. The trash discuss between them has additionally run the complete gamut of goofy to severe whereas laced with an total “enjoyable issue” that casuals have flocked to love cat nip and boxing’s outdated guard has been resistant to simply accept.   

If you happen to ever questioned the place the intersection between professional wrestling and boxing was situated, chances are you’ll need to drop a pin inside Exhausting Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, this weekend for a more in-depth look. 

So with that in thoughts, there’s a little bit of expectation and apprehension surrounding what occurs subsequent after this weekend’s bout. Like, instantly subsequent. Will Jake Paul come out from underneath the ring to assault Mayweather and kick off a construct to their very own combat (offered Jake will get previous Tyron Woodley in August in his personal Showtime PPV debut)? Or can both Paul brother pull off their very own respective objective of drawing former two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor again in direction of the candy science?

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Or how about one thing much more taboo and professional wrestling? What are the chances that each Paul brothers aren’t on a collision course to sooner or later face one another? 

Sure, I can really feel the breeze of your swift eye roll from right here. However it’s a subject Logan and the 24-year-old Jake (3-0, 3 KOs) get requested about greater than you may assume. 

“Everybody asks this query,” Logan Paul advised CBS Sports activities final week. “I actually do imagine a part of the explanation I used to be placed on this earth was to entertain and to placed on a present to alleviate. I believe me combating Jake would create a spectacle that has by no means been achieved and would in all probability by no means be achieved once more. That excites me.”

Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko, the Ukrainian brothers who dominated boxing’s heavyweight division for greater than a decade, famously promised their mom that they might by no means combat. However the thought of a tussle between siblings got here to fruition within the sport of MMA lately. 

Former UFC stars and adopted brothers, Ken and Frank Shamrock, flirted with the thought late of their careers regardless of a big dimension distinction however by no means went by with it. Carlos Fodor and his adopted brother, Ben “Phoenix Jones” Fodor, did conform to do it underneath the World Sequence of Combating banner in 2016, but it surely wasn’t excessive profile sufficient to make a giant splash throughout the headlines and the combat, which Carlos received by choice, went on to drive a fair deeper wedge between the 2. 

“Everybody has been asking us this our entire time on this sport. I don’t know,” Jake Paul advised CBS Sports activities. “At some point we’re like, ‘Yeah, we should always do it.’ After which the subsequent day we’re like, ‘No, this can be a silly thought.’ However hey, we’re right here to make historical past so that you by no means know what may occur.”

For the report, Jake’s reticence is shared by nearly everybody else in his household — together with his brother — regardless of each of them realizing how massive of a spectacle the occasion might be. 

“I’m on the fence as effectively. My dad and mom would f—ing kill us. They don’t need that,” Logan Paul mentioned. “My dad is a tough ass from Ohio however he nonetheless don’t need that. My mother doesn’t need it, my mates don’t need it. Nobody desires it that’s near us. We now have by no means sparred. I believe I’m higher, he thinks he’s higher. We now have completely different coaches and completely different types. 

“I don’t know, I don’t know! Give us three years to hone these expertise and let’s discover out who is best, as soon as and for Paul.”

The variations between the brothers are as stark as what makes them comparable. Requested to elucidate that, Logan may solely snigger and reply, “How a lot time you bought?”

Nicknamed the “Drawback Baby,” Jake is roofed in tattoos and clearly the way more impulsive of the 2. He has thrown himself into the game of boxing with reckless abandon and needs to be taken severely for his efforts in doing so. Older brother Logan, whereas extra calm and jovial on the floor, appears to distinction that by making a joke of nearly all the pieces, together with his possibilities of defeating Mayweather.

“We’re yin and yang. I’m certain he would say the identical factor. We’re the very same and the precise reverse,” Logan Paul mentioned. “We couldn’t be extra alike and couldn’t be extra completely different. We’re brothers to the T, white and black. He’s the ‘Drawback Baby’ and I’m clearly an angel, for certain. I really like the child. He’s the facet of me that I’m not.”

The one factor that’s assured about Sunday’s combat from the standpoint of Jake’s function is that regardless of some early reported pushback from the Mayweather camp, he shall be allowed contained in the stadium for the combat regardless of the entire “Gotcha Hat” episode. 

“I shall be there. Floyd, I believe, received over his little bitch match,” Jake Paul mentioned. “I [have been] serving to [Logan] in coaching camp, I’m serving to him together with his power and conditioning, his mindset, meditation, all that great things. I shall be there rooting for him within the entrance row. I believe if anybody on the planet can do it, it’s Logan Paul.”

No matter what occurs in Sunday’s consequence, Logan Paul swears he shall be again contained in the ring once more and {that a} potential loss received’t gradual the momentum of the Paul brothers making their disruptive transfer into the game. 

“Do losses matter?,” Logan Paul mentioned. “Conor McGregor simply received his f—ing ass beat and received meme’d fairly dangerous. It has been loss, loss, loss, loss. He’s additionally the best paid athlete on the planet. I don’t know. Are you able to placed on a present? Do folks need to come and watch you combat? Sheesh.”