Logan Paul has dipped his feet across the sports entertainment landscape since branching out from YouTube videos. He’s stepped into a WWE ring on several occasions, and every so often he competes in boxing matches.
Paul will make his next in-ring appearance to box Dillon Dennis at The Prime Card on Oct. 14, after his last WWE appearance at SummerSlam on Aug. 5. This will be Paul’s first boxing match since 2021, and he has only one professional loss on record, although he previously faced Floyd Mayweather in an exhibition match that went eight rounds without a winner.
To let him box, the social media star says WWE has been very accommodating while he is under contract as a “full-time wrestler.” He tells The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani that stepping into the boxing ring requires finding time in his schedule since he is committed to what he is doing in the squared circle (h/t Fightful for transcription).
We gotta find a time in the schedule to carve out a time to box. I am technically a full-time wrestler. I’m on the roster, I have a contract, and it’s also a goal of mine to get WWE championships. I didn’t just come to partake. I came to take over. You don’t do that if you’re hopping in and out of the sport. So we gotta find time to box and find time to wrestle, and they’ve been very accommodating.
Paul also explained that boxing and wrestling ignite certain parts of his brain, and that he likes competing in sports to help create a legacy for himself.
Boxing is just so much more intensely violent. Both sports have their danger and both extremely primal. I often feel like I’m born in the wrong generation. I like the idea of two men, two women, humans going at it with all they have. I don’t know, I just feel like I’m built for it. Boxing ignited a certain part of my brain that wrestling doesn’t, and wrestling ignites a certain part of my brain that boxing doesn’t. I like going back and forth. Also, who’s doing it? I gotta make a legacy somehow.
WWE has not announced a return date for Paul. With Crown Jewel around the corner, and having used the 28-year-old at the 2022 event, perhaps he shows up to build a match. Otherwise, Royal Rumble season will be the next logical timeframe for his return, when all the stars start coming out.