Floyd Mayweather Jr. and YouTuber Logan Paul will face off in a special exhibition boxing match on Feb. 20.
- The event will be streamed live as a pay-per-view event on Fanmio.
Mayweather has a 50-0 record in boxing, holding multiple world titles over the course of his career.
- Mayweather retired in 2017 after he defeated former UFC champion Conor McGregor, according to ESPN.
Paul “is best known for his controversial YouTube video where he filmed a dead body in a Japanese forest,” according to The Verge.
- Paul is 0-1 in boxing competitions. He lost his only match to YouTuber KSI.
Why it’s happening:
There’s some weird boxing family fuel drama going on here. Mayweather called out Logan Paul on Twitter, saying he’s “not the one for the kid games.”
But then Paul’s brother — Jake Paul — responded by saying Mayweather was looking for clout.
- “You know, it doesn’t bother me,” Jake Paul told The Daily Beast. “At the end of the day, he’s like 5-foot-4, so he’s actually the little kid here, and obviously he just wants attention. He’s 50-something years old. He should be in retirement. So he just wants to get relevancy by talking about the YouTube kids, because we’re the ones popping off right now.”
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Jake Paul recent boxed former NBA player Nate Robinson. Paul knocked out Robinson in a moment that went wild on social media.