(Editor’s note: This story first published over at Boxing Junkie, part of the USA TODAY Network.)
Logan Paul is in trouble, according to two people who should know: Mike Tyson and Jake Paul, Logan’s brother.
Logan Paul, 0-1 as a professional boxer after losing to fellow YouTube personality KSI in 2019, is set to face none other than Floyd Mayweather on Feb. 20 on pay-per-view. Tyson and Jake Paul said what everyone is thinking, that Logan is in over his head.
Tyson, a guest on Logan’s podcast “Impaulsize,” said the host will be schooled by the 43-year-old future Hall of Famer. Mayweather turns 44 on Feb. 24.
“Floyd is going to beat (Logan’s) f*cking ass,” Tyson said on the show. “But it’s going to be good, though. He’s going to fight back. … (Mayweather) might let you hit him a couple of times to make the show look good.
“There’s always a danger when two men go into the ring. Anything can happen.”
Tyson went on: “Let me tell you something about Floyd. No matter what anybody says about him, he’s always in the gym. He’s a gym rat. He retired, and he stayed in the gym. He can’t help it. He doesn’t do drugs, but that’s his heroine.”
Jake Paul, who stopped Nate Robinson on the Tyson-Roy Jones card on Nov. 28, echoed Tyson’s comments using similar language.
“My brother’s f*cked,” he told TMZ Sports. “… It’s bad for the sport. I think it’s just for clout. My brother’s a fake fighter. I’m the real fighter.”
It’s a stretch to say that Jake is “the real fighter.” He’s 2-0 (2 KOs) as a professional boxer and reportedly trains properly, but he hasn’t faced a “real fighter.” Robinson is a former NBA player who was making his pro boxing debut.
Still, he doesn’t see his brother as his boxing equal.
“He’s 0-1-1, and I’m 3-0,” said Jake, including exhibition results in his tally. “I wish him the best of luck. I just like, don’t get in there with a guy who’s never even been knocked down. He’s been knocked down once, and it was by accident.”
Logan recently slammed Jake, labeling him “f*cking dumb” for calling out UFC star Conor McGregor.
Mayweather was last in the ring in December 2018, when he destroyed Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa in an exhibition. He famously knocked out McGregor in his last sanctioned bout, in 2017.