Conor McGregor claims he will fight Logan Paul in India next year – and the YouTuber has already taken a stance against the two-time UFC champion
Logan Paul branded Conor McGregor a “horrible boxer” last year – and could now take on the UFC legend in India.
McGregor took to social media to claim he has agreed to face YouTuber Paul in an exhibition bout next year while putting his UFC career on hold. “The rumours of a bout with Topuria are false. I am in preliminary agreements with the Ambani family to face Logan Paul in a boxing exhibition in India. I have agreed. I will then seek my return to the Octagon,” he said.
Paul is yet to comment on McGregor’s claim but called out the Irishman before he took on his former teammate Dillon Danis in a boxing bout last year. ” Conor McGregor is an average MMA fighter and a horrible boxer,” he said. “I’m going to beat the s*** out of his b* Dillon and then I’m going beat the s out of him.
“He ghosted me, he won’t even bet a million dollars on his fighter. That’s chump change for a guy like Conor, he won’t even bet a million dollars on Dillon. He had nothing to say when I called him out on Twitter. So do you think that he’s going to step in there himself? I don’t know, feels unlikely.” After beating Danis, Paul added: “Conor McGregor, you see that?. I took your b****, put him on a leash and took him for a walk. Who’s the real fighter now?”
McGregor has not fought since he broke his leg in the first round of his trilogy fight with Dustin Poirier over three years ago. He has won just one fight since 2016, a 40-second KO of Donald Cerrone in 2020. Since beating Eddie Alvarez in two rounds eight years ago, McGregor has lost to Floyd Mayweather, Khabib Nurmagomedov and twice to Poirier.
He had been due to return against Michael Chandler this summer but pulled out of the fight at two weeks’ notice when he suffered a broken toe. Last month McGregor was found liable of assaulting Nikita Hand in a Dublin hotel in December 2018 and ordered to pay his victim more than £200,000.
Paul, the elder brother of boxer Jake, made his debut against KSI in 2018, drawing with his social media rival in Manchester before losing to the Brit in Los Angeles a year later. He went on to fight Mayweather in an exhibition bout which was not scored before his win over Danis last year. Paul has since focused on his WWE career but claimed to have retired during a recent episode of his podcast. “I am retired,” he said. “Come on, I’m retired. I’m a dad, bro.”