Logan Paul has claimed he did more damage to Floyd Mayweather than Conor McGregor did in their crossover fight.
YouTuber Paul shared the ring with the former five-weight world champion Mayweather last June, as he impressively went all eight rounds in the un-scored exhibition fight. The event was a huge success and sold over one million pay-per-view buys, with Mayweather said to have earned around £52million for the fight whilst Paul pocketed a respectable £15m.
In a recent tweet, Paul boasted about having more success against Mayweather than UFC star McGregor did. 'Notorious' was stopped by Mayweather in the 10th round of their 2017 'money fight', with the ring legend improving to 50-0 and subsequently retiring from professional competition whilst McGregor has not competed in boxing since.
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The YouTuber was replying to a comment that McGregor made about YouTube boxing, as the former two-weight UFC champion was asked by a fan if he would ever fight in the "genre".
"'Genre of boxing?' Boxing is boxing, I'm a YouTuber and still did more damage to Floyd than you," Paul wrote.
"Conor will defo fight in that genre of boxing he doesn't care. In 5-6 years," the fan wrote as McGregor replied: "Ah go on then, will there be belts? Hahahah".
Belts do exist in YouTube boxing as Jake splashed out $500,000 on a custom-made belt before facing Tyron Woodley whilst KSI has created titles for his Misfits Boxing promotion.
Paul's 'damage' claim has seemingly been disproved by the official punch stats from his and McGregor's fights against Mayweather however. McGregor landed 111 of his 430 attempted punches before Mayweather stopped him with two rounds to go, meaning the Irishman had a better success rate than Manny Pacquiao when he fought Mayweather in 2015.
Mayweather absorbed just 28 of Paul's 217 attempted punches over eight rounds, giving the YouTuber just shy of a 13 per cent connection rate compared to McGregor's 19 per cent. 'Money' came out of his fights against McGregor and Paul relatively unscathed, but the same can't be said about Mayweather's latest exhibition against Deji as he was given a black eye by the YouTuber.
Paul, who hasn't boxed since his fight with Mayweather, was set to return in January but cancelled his boxing plans after suffering a knee injury in his WWE title fight. McGregor has teased a boxing return is targeting a world title in the sport, but wants to finish his UFC journey before doing so.
