Floyd Mayweather On Logan Paul Fight: “It’s Going To Be Fun.”

By: Sean Crose

“It’s going to be enjoyable,” says Floyd Mayweather of his Sunday pay per view occasion in opposition to social media star turned boxer Logan Paul. “It’s what I do. There’s a distinction between being a YouTube fighter and an elite fighter. I’m a fighter and I don’t fear about something. I’ve been an expert for 25 years and I’ve fought the perfect and seen each model and I all the time got here out on prime.” It’s laborious to argue with Mayweather’s phrases. For what it’s value, Paul has solely fought as soon as, and that wasn’t in opposition to an expert boxer. He nonetheless misplaced.

“Why not combat Logan Paul?” Mayweather asks rhetorically. “He’s big on YouTube. He has an enormous following. Earlier than I even knew about YouTube, I used to be big in boxing. And while you convey his world with my world, man it’s going to be loopy.” Mayweather is actually proper about that. Though his battle with Paul will solely be an exhibition bout, the promotion has been phenomenal. “I’m glad he’s acquired confidence,” Mayweather says of his opponent. “I’m glad he believes in himself. Final time I checked, all 50 fighters that I confronted, all of them mentioned the identical factor.”

“I believe I’ve to knock him out,” says Paul, primarily sounding as assured as Mayweather says he’s. “Somebody’s getting knocked out. Somebody’s gonna stop.” So assured is the social media influencer that he says boxing has much less put on and tear than blended martial arts. “I didn’t select boxing, boxing selected me,” he says. “I acquired challenged to field, and I answered that problem. I sort of fell completely into the game. In truth, boxing is simpler on the physique than MMA. MMA is difficult. I acquired dangerous knees. I’m previous now. I’m growing older. My higher physique is powerful and I’ve dense bones. My power is all in my higher physique.”

One factor Paul is promising is to offer it his all on Sunday night time when he faces Mayweather in Miami. Though he’s far greater and youthful than Mayweather, few count on Paul to make a lot of a exhibiting in opposition to the all time nice. “I’m going to combat my coronary heart out,” says Paul. “That’s the gorgeous factor about this sport. In virtually another enterprise, expertise goes to trump every thing else. However it is a combat, and something can occur.” As for Mayweather, he appears simply plain proud of how issues have turned out for him in retirement.

“The boxing was the mashed potatoes,” he says. “I suppose these guys now are the gravy. I retired from boxing, however I didn’t retire from leisure or from earning profits.”