It's been exactly one year since Logan Paul went the distance with ring legend Floyd Mayweather and the YouTube star is still owed several million for the exhibition clash.
Paul went eight rounds with former five-weight world champion Mayweather in their exhibition fight last June. Although no official winner was announced, 'Money' outlanded Paul in the fight despite throwing over less than 100 hundred punches than the YouTube star.
Mayweather likened the fight to a "legalised bank robbery" and boasted about earning £52m whilst Paul was guaranteed a £14m payday, at least he thought so. A year on and Paul is still claiming he hasn't been fully paid for the fight, which sold over one million pay-per-view buys.
"Pay me my money you f****** cornball of a human," Paul wrote to Mayweather in an Instagram story last December. 'The Maverick' later explained that "unprofessional people" handling his purse was the reason for him not being paid in full.
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Mayweather responded to Paul's money request claim by telling him to be patient. The 45-year-old pointed to some of his previous fights that he's still not been fully paid for as proof that boxing purses can take a long time to be processed.
“This comes with the territory,” Mayweather told The Pivot Podcast. "To them, that’s real money, and I like the YouTubers. The money on the back end though, from pay-per-view, that takes a while. Nothing comes right away.
"I’m still collecting cheques from fights seven or eight years ago. They just hate when the table is turned. Be happy with the biggest payday you ever got in your life."
Paul admitted that he doesn't know the ins and outs of how boxers get paid, but is sceptical about Mayweather telling him to be patient. "I've not been paid in full, that is a fact," he said on The MMA Hour in February.
"We're just trying to collect what is rightfully ours. He came out and said this is the name of the game, this is how it works in boxing but I don't know if it is, I don't know if that's true. I think after you fight you should get paid, it doesn't take this long to count the money.
"For the longest time I bit my f****** tongue. We heard it every week, 'The money's coming next week, the money's coming next week'. Three months in I realised the money's not coming next week, so I'm offended and I've been lied to. I never thought I'd be the 'Where's the money?' guy, but the only way to get this guy to move is to pipe up and embarrass him."
