{"id":292872,"date":"2018-11-27T07:23:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T15:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=292872"},"modified":"2022-04-27T14:35:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T21:35:22","slug":"cm-punk-youtube-star-logan-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/cm-punk-youtube-star-logan-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"CM Punk addresses potential fight with YouTube star Logan Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After losing his first two mixed martial arts bouts \u2014 first a submission defeat to Mickey Gall, then a submission setback against Mike Jackson \u2014 former pro wrestling star CM Punk now finds himself in a tough situation. Although he <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/cm-punk\/cm-punks-polarizing-beginning-leads-to-a-respectable-end-at-ufc-225\/\">undeniably possesses the heart required to compete as a professional fighter<\/a>, he is simply at a technical deficit when compared to most of his potential opponents. Except, say, somebody like Logan Paul.<\/p>\n<p>Logan Paul, a famous YouTuber, recently competed in a celebrity boxing match opposite fellow YouTube star KSI. After this bout, Paul discussed <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/brendan-schaub\/brendan-schaub-believes-the-ufc-is-thinking-about-signing-logan-paul\/\">a potential move to the UFC<\/a>, and given his inexperience, was mentioned as a potential opponent for CM Punk. Even UFC color commentator <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/ufc-commentator-joe-rogan-evaluates-bellator-one-championship-and-golden-boy-mma\/\">Joe Rogan<\/a> discussed <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/tyron-woodley-warns-joe-rogan-to-layoff-cm-punk-you-got-smoke-with-him-you-got-smoke-with-me\/\">the possibility<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, however, CM Punk has no interest in fighting Logan Paul. The main reason for his disinterest, he says, is Paul&#8217;s infamous 2017 video in which he filmed a dead body in <em>Aokigahara<\/em>, the so-called Japanese &#8220;suicide forest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"hbuAog\">&#8220;I\u2019m not fighting Logan Paul,&#8221; the former pro wrestler told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2018\/11\/27\/18109787\/cm-punk-talks-mma-commentary-fighting-future-logan-paul-reports-of-a-new-wrestling-promotion-more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Fighting<\/a>\u00a0recently.\u00a0&#8220;I think this is one of the avenues where people will be like, \u2018I don\u2019t even know who Logan Paul is.\u2019 Logan Paul is apparently a popular guy, but it\u2019s not in any kind of avenue that I drive my car on. The only thing I know about him is he\u2019s the guy who filmed the dead body in the Japanese suicide forest, which is don\u2019t get me started on that, because I\u2019ll say a bunch of stuff and then I\u2019m sure somebody will make a YouTube video about it.<\/p>\n<p id=\"4r2GFA\">&#8220;My entire life, before I ever got into MMA, for some reason I\u2019m like this magnet. I don\u2019t know what the deal is. Maybe it\u2019s because, like Ben Askren, I just live unapologetically, I\u2019m like honest to a fault and I\u2019m just myself and I don\u2019t really care. When you fight somebody, when you enter into a fight camp, you have to spend a lot of time thinking about that person. Maybe some guys don\u2019t, maybe some guys focus on themselves. But you still have this person in front of you. And I\u2019m not into sharing that much of my time and my headspace and my life with somebody that did something that I feel is so reprehensibly disrespectful to the people of Japan, who I love. They\u2019ll always have a special place in my heart. So, no. I\u2019m not fighting him. I have no interest to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it.<\/p>\n<p>We won&#8217;t be seeing CM Punk fight Logan Paul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 11\/27\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After losing his first two mixed martial arts bouts \u2014 first a submission defeat to Mickey Gall, then a submission setback against Mike Jackson \u2014 former pro wrestling star CM Punk now finds himself in a tough situation. 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