Dana White won't rule out a future fight for Logan Paul in the UFC, despite having no interest in his brother Jake.
The UFC president appeared on the elder Paul's podcast Impaulsive , and refused to fully shut down the possibility of having Logan appear in the octagon in future. Both brothers have pushed to make the switch from boxing to MMA, but White is less interested in having Jake appear.
White has expressed that he wants to pit the best fighters in the world against one another, as opposed to putting on celebrity fights including the likes of the Pauls. But he has on a number of occasions offered opportunities to far-from-elite MMA fighters such as Brock Lesnar, James Toney and most infamously CM Punk.
While Lesnar would go on to become heavyweight champion and Toney had a background as a boxing world champion, ex-WWE star Punk had never competed at any level in any sport when he made his debut at the age of 37. Meanwhile, the Pauls have considerable wrestling and now boxing credentials and claim to have jiu-jitsu experience.
Logan has fought three times; once in a white-collar boxing match with fellow YouTuber KSI, whom he faced in the professional ranks a year later. He drew and lost those efforts before taking on Floyd Mayweather last summer in an exhibition bout that went the distance with no winner declared.
And he has a considerable wrestling background from his secondary school days in Ohio, where he was a top competitor in one of the most difficult states in the country. Meanwhile, Jake is 5-0 as a boxer and has knocked out two MMA world champions in Ben Askren and Tyron Woodley, as well as having a less impressive but still solid wrestling background.
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While appearing on Impaulsive , the topic was broached with White, who first asked Paul “Who would you want to fight?" He then conceded that the YouTuber "has wrestling and boxing," and asking "Do you ever do jiu-jitsu?" When Paul replied in the affirmative, White admitted "I’m not saying no.”
However, the younger Paul is less likely to get an opportunity in the UFC, primarily because he wants to face the much smaller Conor McGregor. Jake competes at cruiserweight in boxing, which would come in somewhere between middleweight and light heavyweight in MMA, and wants to face former featherweight and lightweight champion McGregor in a super-fight.
But White isn't even particularly keen on McGregor's brief flirtations with fighting at welterweight, where he has won two fights against Nate Diaz and Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone after losing his first one against Diaz.
"I'm looking for the absolute best in the world," White told Logan on his podcast. "It's not what we do, there's a market for what [the Pauls] do. The Floyd [Mayweather] vs Conor fight, everyone wanted to see it and it took on a life of its own. [Jake] shouldn't even be fighting Conor McGregor; these guys are huge and Conor McGregor is 145/155lb."
