Logan Paul has told of a vivid dream he had recently in which he fought and defeated Andrew Tate by submission inside the octagon.
The YouTube star, who is 0-1 as a professional boxer having fought to a draw and no decision in his two white-collar and exhibition outings, has been angling for a fight with Tate for a long time. And given that the kickboxer has a background in MMA, he believes it would be best served in a cage, ideally under the UFC banner.
And he claims that he recently had a "vision" where he and Tate, a four-time kickboxing world champion with a number of smaller MMA fights in his past, fought in the octagon. He says that he saw the bout ending in a first round submission, likely given his background in grappling that includes high-level high school and college wrestling in the famed wrestling state of Ohio.
"I had this vision this morning, real vivid in my head," Paul told Jeff Wittek on his podcast Jeff FM. "Me and Andrew Tate finally did it, we finally signed up for a MMA fight. I'm coming in hot, fast - I had this dream, I choked him out in 15 seconds, I'm not kidding, 15 seconds.
"And then, in this vision, I stood up, I looked up at him and I was almost disappointed for him because I think that's what would happen. I think I'd destroy him quick and then be like 'that was the Top G, that was the guy?' You know what I did? I grabbed the fence and I didn't move.
"Then he tried to come in super hot and I just took his back, choked him out and it just took me 15 seconds. I even went to the social afterwards and there's like a picture of me pointing at him with a look of confusion on my face and the caption would be 'the real Top G'. I play all these scenarios out in my head."
Asked if he had envisioned the standard post-fight interview, in which Wittek noted that fighters generally admit that they have respect for their opponents having stepped in the ring, Paul responded that he "hadn't got that far". But he explained that the possibility of the fight was exciting to him, and he is keen to make that dream a reality.
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"I didn't get that far," he replied. "I'm sure something like that would happen but yeah, I like thinking about these possibilities of us fighting. They excite me."
Tate has made a name for himself over the last year as an outspoken entrepreneur who encourages men to better themselves through making money, improving their physical health and ultimately 'escaping the matrix'. A key factor in his quick rise to fame is his outlandish comments, including a famous statement that men's wives are their "property".
But Paul believes that it is all an act, with his brother Jake having spent time with Andrew and his brother Tristan Tate recently in Dubai. "I was just talking to Jake about this because he was just with him in Dubai," he continued. "Apparently it's a f***ing act, bro - it's a show. Look, we all come in this room and it's a show, an amplified version of ourself. Jake said his brother Tristan is a good, solid, more down to Earth type of guy in real life."
