Logan Paul Addresses Rumor Floyd Mayweather Held Him Up

YouTuber and celebrity boxer Logan Paul is calling out fans who pointed out that Floyd Mayweather appeared to have stopped him from hitting the canvas in their fight. At one point it appeared like Floyd Mayweather held up Paul rather than have him get knocked out.

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The conspiracy theory is all about the fighters ensuring that the bout went all the way to the end of the eight rounds, making it more of a spectacle, while potentially earning more money for both fighters.

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Paul took to Twitter to address the controversy:

“Yo, I’m seeing this narrative going around,” he told his millions of followers on Instagram.

“There’s one part in the fight where Floyd punched me and I kind of leaned on him a little bit. It looks like I kind of went limp.

“People are trying to spin it and say he knocked me out and caught me and kept me up to keep the fight going to the eighth round.

“Shut the f*ck up. Just shut the f*ck up. Stop trying to discredit what happened.”

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“Make no mistake, he got a lot of good punches in; there’s a couple of photos I got f*cked up in – a couple of shots, I didn’t know my face could make that shape.

“But [I was] never rocked, never blacked out, never obviously got knocked out.

“He didn’t hold me up, he tried to take me out but he couldn’t. It was great.”

Judging by the pics, sure looks like he got rocked:

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Does any of this really matter?

It was an exhibition fight. One that people paid to see.

I’d rather just go out to a bar and watch drunk idiots spar.

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