An NFL veteran says WWE‘s Logan Paul backing out of his $1 million fight is the weakest and most cowardly thing he’s ever seen.
After initially agreeing to a $1 million boxing match against former NFL star and pro boxer Le’Veon Bell, Logan Paul backed out, saying WWE officials did not allow him to compete. The fight was made official after Bell answered Paul’s challenge for any NFL star to face him in a boxing ring.
Now, addressing Logan Paul’s move on the Speakeasy podcast, former NFL linebacker Emmanuel Acho described it as the weakest and most cowardly thing he’s ever seen. He claimed Paul staged a whole situation to back out of the fight. Acho is currently an analyst for FS1 and is known for playing four seasons in the NFL. Most of his time was with the Philadelphia Eagles.
“I don’t ever want to talk about Logan Paul in this show again after this. This was the weakest, most cowardly thing I have seen by someone who isn’t already like a legitimate athlete, if I’m just being honest, though he is athletic. Logan Paul, you finna kick up all this dust, call out an athlete, call out NFL players, NFL player challenges you, you try to pocket check him.
“Le’Veon Bell says, ‘I got the bread, I got the mill,’ and then all of a sudden you stage a whole situation and now you can’t fight. You should’ve looked that up beforehand. You already said Le’Veon can actually fight, so now you’re gonna have to go train for it. So you was already acting scared,” Acho said.
The NFL star says the situation is a ‘one big sham’ by Logan Paul
“Don’t use this situation to go promote, one, your drink Prime, the shirt he was wearing, and two, go promote Netflix. This whole thing was one big sham by Logan Paul, and I’m like, ‘Bruh, you already knew you was probably finna get knocked out, especially by Le’Veon Bell, and that’s probably why he ducked and smoked. So for me, this is the weakest move I’ve ever seen by a want-to-be athlete in my life,” Acho said.
“Logan Paul’s an actor. He’s not an athlete, he’s an actor. He was acting on YouTube as a YouTube star, and now he be acting in wrestling. He is ‘athletic,’ but there’s a difference between being athletic and being an athlete. When he would’ve gotten to the ring with an athlete, he would’ve found out the difference,” Acho said.
The whole situation stemmed from Logan Paul’s back-and-forth banter with NFL legend Tom Brady over the latter’s comments about pro wrestling and his athletic abilities. Recent reports indicated that WWE had talks with Brady about making a potential appearance.
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