Paddy Pimblett is set to be out of action for a few more months as he recuperates from ankle surgery — but when he comes back, he may well have a challenge waiting for him.
Logan Paul, an occasional boxer turned WWE wrestler, has offered to make his UFC debut on any upcoming card which features a matchup between Big Tech billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, and he says he will give any money coming his way as a result to charity.
“I’ll be honest, I pitched it,” Paul said on his podcast, as noted by MMA Fighting. “I pitched it internally, I pitched it to the [executives] that be, if Elon Musk and Zuckerberg fight, I will do my UFC debut on the undercard. I’ll fight for free, for charity.”
And if his wish comes to pass, Paul says that there is one man he would like it to come against.
“You know who I want to fight actually cause that b*tchass Andrew Tate won’t fight me. Give me Paddy Pimblett,” Paul said. “Give me ‘Paddy the Baddy.’ In the offseason, that boy looks like a blimp and he’ll come up to my weight class and I’ll wallop him. He’s too small when he cuts weight. When he doesn’t cut weight he’s a f*cking horseshoe.”
There would be something of size disparity on show in any hypothetical fight, at least in theory, gives that Pimblett competes in the UFC’s 155-pound division. Paul’s most recent weigh-in for his exhibition boxing match with Floyd Mayweather saw him tip the scales at 189.5 pounds.
Paul also predicts that a Zuckerberg vs. Musk fight card would have to come with a high profile undercard if it is maximise its pay-per-view potential, particularly as he doesn’t expect the action in the cage to be all that enthralling.
“They’re going to need to stack the undercard,” Paul said. “That’s why I’m throwing my hat in because being honest with you, no offence to these boys, it’s going to be pathetic. That fight will be pathetic. Highly entertaining but come on. Make someone punch who doesn’t know how to punch and see how they look. Watch my first fight.”
Reacting to the potential of a Paul vs. Pimblett scrap, UFC featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski told TheMacLife: “I think that’s a great fight, I think that’s perfect. I think that would be an incredible card that I want to be on as well. I’ll get pay-per-view points, let me headline it!”