Logan Paul renewed his claim that Floyd Mayweather Jr. still owes him money for the June 2021 exhibition fight, claiming in a recent podcast appearance that Mayweather sold the event to a foreign company for $10 million in cash before the fight even took place in the United States – and that Paul’s contractual portion of the deal was never paid.
According to Paul, the deal took place before the fight, which was to take place at Demanding Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, was finalized. “He sold the fight, using my name and likeness, to a company, I think in Dubai or somewhere in the Middle East, for $10 million in cash,” Paul said. “We ended up fighting in the US with another company. That’s the company that organized the fight, but he had already sold our fight to someone else for $10 million in cash.”
Paul then claimed that his contract entitled him to 15 percent of pre-sale revenues. “Our deal was 15%, I was fired. 15% of $10,000,000 is $1,500,000,” Paul said. “The company that paid him $10 million is suing him. I don’t think I’ll ever get that money.”
The Dubai Agreement that fell apart
Paul’s account touches on the well-documented chapter leading up to the fight. Before the fight took place in Miami, Mayweather Promotions filed a $122.6 million lawsuit against PAC Entertainment Worldwide, the company that proposed organizing the exhibition in Dubai. Court records obtained by TMZ Sports at the time show that the PAC approached Mayweather’s promotional company, claiming it had extensive business contacts in the region and the financial capacity to stage an event of this scale.
These documents show that Mayweather Promotions signed a contract providing $110 million guaranteed according to an agreed payment schedule. When the first $30 million installment was not delivered by the March 2021 deadline, Mayweather’s team withdrew and moved the fight to Miami in a separate agreement with Fanmio Boxing. The exhibition aired on Showtime pay-per-view on June 6, 2021. PAC Entertainment disputes Mayweather’s version of events in his own federal court filing, maintaining that it was Mayweather who breached the agreement.
The specific $10 million figure that Paul provided does not directly match the numbers provided in the publicly available lawsuit, which referred to much larger sums. It is unclear whether the amount described by Paul constitutes a separate transaction, an advance payment or another element of a broader transaction structure.
A well-known dispute
Complaints about payments are nothing recent. Paul has raised the issue publicly and repeatedly in the months following the fight, calling Mayweather a “weasel” on Instagram in overdue 2021 and telling TMZ in 2022 that he intended to take the matter to court. On Andrew Schulz’s podcast, Paul previously estimated the remaining amount at between $2 million and $5 million. The latest claim narrows that number to $1.5 million, specifically related to alleged overseas pre-sales.
The original structure of the exhibition deal reportedly guaranteed Paul a base amount of $250,000 plus 10 percent of pay-per-view revenues. Mayweather’s guarantee was reported to be $10 million plus 50 percent of PPV revenues. The event sold approximately one million pay-per-view units, which most estimates place Paul’s total earnings at around $5 million.
Mayweather has previously pushed back against accusations of non-payment, telling reporters in early 2022 that it “takes a while” to transfer money for viewings and that he was still collecting checks from fights that took place years earlier. At a press conference ahead of his 2022 exhibition with Mikuru Asakura, Mayweather rejected Paul’s claims, arguing that if Paul had not really been paid, he would not have sought a rematch. Mayweather has not publicly responded to the podcast’s latest comments.
To Paul, that $1.5 million seems like a waste of money. The tone on his podcast was one of resignation rather than combativeness – a noticeable change from the Instagram outbursts and courtroom threats of previous years. Paul has since moved to Career in WWEhis PRIME Hydration business at KSI and life in Puerto Rico. It is not known whether the case is still under legal consideration.
Nearly five years after the two men came together in Miami, the financial repercussions of their exhibition are still being felt – one podcast at a time.
“Well, he has his team there and I’m not criticizing anyone, but in both fights his tactics weren’t good,” Peter said in an interview with Sport Boxing.
“It worked out badly because look, if we have a little guy here who can throw, let’s say, a welterweight who can throw a thousand punches, and we have a heavyweight, will a heavyweight fighter throw a thousand punches with him? No.”
“Or maybe he’ll step in and take one good shot? Absolutely.”
“So basically yes, the strategy was just wrong. It doesn’t mean Usyk was better than him. It doesn’t mean he doesn’t say anything. You misunderstand the tactics and they are wrong.
“And you know, when you look at Usyk’s structure and what he does, when he distances himself and tries to box an elite boxer who is lighter than you and who is giving away pounds, he will ping you all over the shop. That should be noticed,” Peter Fury said.
Tyson Fury announced his return earlier this year and is expected to have a preparatory fight before the start of his scheduled series with Anthony Joshua. Queensbury promoter Frank Warren recently confirmed that Fury’s next opponent could be announced in the coming days, with the long-awaited fight against Joshua expected to take place later this year.
Usyk remains at the top of the heavyweight division and has been ordered to fight WBC interim champion Agit Kabayel. Warren also confirmed that negotiations for the fight are ongoing.
Fury’s third meeting with Usyk has not been announced. Peter Fury, however, remains convinced that the strategy used in the first two fights determined the result.
Jorge Kahwagi achieved something almost impossible in professional boxing. The Mexican politician retired with a perfect record of 12-0, knocked out every opponent he faced, and finished his entire career in just 15 rounds.
On paper, this looks like one of the most devastating runs the sport has ever seen. In fact, many boxing fans wondered if they even believed it.
Perfect record
Kahwagi turned professional in 2001, despite having no boxing experience. Over the next fourteen years, he set an undefeated record, won regional titles, and never once heard the final bell.
Twelve fights brought twelve victories. All twelve victories were by knockout in just fifteen rounds.
The numbers are tough to understand even now.
Several of Kahwagi’s opponents entered the ring in defeat. Others seemed hopelessly outmatched.
But the record continued to grow as the politician and businessman rose through the cruiserweight ranks without ever being seriously tested.
By the time he retired in 2015 after returning from a ten-year hiatus for one final fight, Kahwagi owned one of boxing’s most remarkable undefeated records.
Why fans never bought it
The controversy surrounding Kahwaga was not in itself. This is how some of these victories turned out.
His last fight against Ramon Olivas remains the fight most frequently mentioned in discussions about Kahwagi’s career. The break came after seemingly minimal contact, prompting criticism from fans and observers.
Doubts have already surrounded previous victories, including the victory over veteran Roberto Coelho.
Whether these doubts were justified or not, the damage was done and many fans never accepted Kahwagi’s record at face value.
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Boxing has seen this before
Kahwagi’s record may be extraordinary, but in boxing there is always controversy when it comes to results.
As WBN reports, while John Riel Casimero faces a fight-fixing investigation in 2025, debates continue to arise in the contemporary era about what happens inside the ropes.
Long before that, Roy Jones Jr. denied winning Olympic gold in Seoul despite dominating Park Si-hun in what many still consider the greatest heist in boxing history.
More than thirty years later, Park returned the medal to Jones.
The Kahwagi case falls into a different category, but the result is often the same. Once fans stop believing what they’re watching, the debate never really stops.
Still one of the strangest
Few fighters retire with a perfect record, and even fewer retire after every knockout victory.
Kahwagi handled both, finishing his entire professional career in just 15 innings, and those numbers remain remarkable.
More than a decade after his retirement, the debate surrounding his record has never really died down.
That’s why Jorge Kahwagi’s perfect 12-0 record remains one of the strangest in boxing history.
About the author
Phil Jay is the editor-in-chief of World Boxing News (WBN) and a boxing veteran with over 15 years of experience. Read the full biography.
One of the most coveted fights in boxing right now is the lithe heavyweight clash between unified champion Dmitry Bivol and WBC ruler David Benavidez for the undisputed 175-pound crown.
However, two-division world champion Teofimo Lopez believes that the fight could end in a “massacre”.
“The Mexican Monster” has since won the unified cruiserweight crown, but maintains he would be willing to cut weight to face Bivol and claim the undisputed honors.
Speaking on Inside The Ring programLopez renamed Benavidez the “Massacre Monster” when discussing the potential fight, believing the age difference between the two lithe heavyweight champions could be crucial to the outcome of the fight.
“I’m going to call Benavidez a ‘massacre monster’ because, man, [that performance against Ramirez] it was nasty. It’s really nasty, really.
“He [Benavidez] enters its flowering period, while the other [Bivol] is on the way out. You have to think about these things too.”
Bivol fulfilled his IBF obligation by defending his belts against Michael Eifert last weekend, but the WBO ordered him to face mandatory challenger Callum Smith in order to retain the WBO belt.
As a result, it appears that a potential Bivol-Benavidez clash will have to wait until 2027, with Beterbiev also being considered for the trilogy.
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