Logan Paul has adapted to pro wrestling much faster than anyone likely would have imagined before he first stepped in a WWE ring in early 2022. Yet there are times when he’s clearly still learning on the job, and one of them happened this past weekend at Money in the Bank.
The moment in question came about half an hour into the show, during the Men’s Money in the Bank Ladder match. Paul and Ricochet had just been knocked off a ladder onto the ropes by LA Knight, and two tables beckoned on the floor below.
Ricochet grabbed Paul and launched him into a springboard Spanish Fly, which sounds crazy except this is Ricochet we’re talking about. It’s an intricate maneuver even when everything goes exactly right, and watching the footage again (thanks, Peacock), it’s clear that Paul doesn’t have his footing before he takes flight.
As a result, Paul took something of an awkward crash through the tables. On his Impaulsive podcast this week (h/t Fightful for the transcription), Paul said he walked away relatively unscathed but chalked some of it up to his inexperience.
There was a botched move with a dangerous landing. I walked away this time relatively unscathed. I got some scrapes and bruises, but no major tweaks or pulls. But Ricochet and I were supposed to do what’s called a Spanish Fly off the top rope. So one of our legs is on the rope, one of our legs is on the ladder, and we are supposed to hit it at the same time. When he hit that rope, it was before me. So he moved it, so I slipped down, all the way to the bottom. Keep in mind, I’m a noob, I don’t really know what I’m doing out there. So when stuff goes wrong, I don’t really know how to improv.
Paul also put some of the blame on Ricochet. It’s important to note that, perhaps to his credit, he doesn’t really draw much of a line between real life and being part of the WWE show, so it’s quite possible his stance here is due to the fact that the two men appear they will be continuing to feud going forward.
So in my head, I’m like, ‘This is f–ked. We f–ked this up. How is this gonna do this? Is he even gonna do this?’ Our legs are all twisted like this. I’m looking at him like, ‘Oh, this motherfucker is still trying to send this shit.’ I’m not even ready, his feet aren’t even planted off the second rope …
I’m like, alright. Went crashing through the tables, scraped my shoulder, I hit my head on the thing. I’m fine, no concussions or anything. It’s just a wild sport. I don’t know what I’m doing.
Perhaps that spot will be a topic of conversation when Paul and Ricochet meet next week on Raw.