26-year-old Youtube superstar Logan Paul is predicting a big shocker when he faces five division world champion Floyd Mayweather in an eight round exhibition fight on Sunday, June 6, in Miami, Florida. The contest will headline a Showtime Pay-Per-View event.
Paul, 6'2 and nearly 200-pounds, will have a very big size advantage over the 44-year-old Mayweather, who never fought beyond the junior middleweight limit.
But, Paul's pro boxing experience is only limited to a single fight which took place two years ago.
Paul believes that he's already pulled off a small victory by tempting Mayweather enough to make Sunday's fight a reality.
“You are witnessing the greatest finesse job in history,” Paul told CBS Sports. “Why is Floyd Mayweather getting in the ring with me? He has everything to lose. You got finessed. You got finessed, Floyd. Imagine I beat him for one second. I have to imagine taking this fight would be a regret.”
“[This fight] is a circus but I’m going to be honest, I wasn’t at first. I was really treating this as kind of a respectful exhibition. I wanted to acknowledge Floyd’s career path and everything he has accomplished. I was trying to be respectful and then my brother took his hat and [Mayweather] said he was going to kill Jake and I don’t take that sh-t lightly.
“It has become super personal. Just the way he is talking online and he thinks he is in control of this fight to the T. It’s going to take 44 years of Floyd’s life for him to be humbled.”
Paul is making some bold statements - claiming that Mayweather will eventually get broken down, mentally, as the second-half of the contest comes around.
“I’m not going to make it ugly — it’s going to be the cleanest display of boxing that you are going to see,” Paul said. “I think it’s going to be two phases that Floyd has in this fight. One, the realization that he might be in over his head. The realization that the kid standing across from him isn’t a fake fighter, isn’t just a YouTuber and that he had been doing this sh-t for some time now.
“Then when he realizes he might have to work a little harder than he thought and he’s not getting the ins he thought he would, that’s when he’s going to hit desperation. I think when Floyd’s desperate and I can see in his face that he’s broke, that’s when I got him. I think that’s when he is going to lose.”