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Logan Paul Enraged at Floyd Mayweather After Ranking Low in Highest-Paid Youtubers of 2021 List

Published 01/15/2022, 6:30 AM EST

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Logan Paul is one of the most popular content creators in the world. ‘The Maverick originally shot to fame one ‘Vine’, followed by YouTube. Paul then transitioned from YouTube to boxing and gained worldwide popularity to revive his career. Within a span of a few years, Paul went from the most hated YouTuber to one of the most respected YouTubers.

His latest outing in the ring came in June last year, against arguably one of the greatest boxers in sport’s history. How Paul and his team managed to book a fight against ‘Money’ Mayweather remains a mystery unsolved to this day. However, Paul managed to survive 8 rounds against Mayweather.

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Recently, Logan Paul has been talking about Mayweather not paying him his due for their fight. According to Paul, more than 6 months after their fight, Mayweather has still not paid Paul. So when the list for the top-earning YouTubers of 2021 came out and Paul saw himself ranked number 9, he was enraged.

Paul came in at number 9, with an estimated $18M earned in 2021. Paul replied to a tweet saying, “and imagine if Floyd paid me!” Paul’s earnings would significantly shoot up if what he says is true and Mayweather has not paid him yet. Because their fight did very well on PPV and attracted a good crowd at the Hard Rock Stadium as well.

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Logan Paul recently lost a lot more of his earnings on his favorite past-time.

Logan Paul lost $3.5 million on fake Pokemon cards

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‘The Maverick’ is an avid Pokemon card collector. Pokemon is something very close to Paul, literally. Paul has only one tattoo on his body and it is a tattoo of the Pokemon ‘Squirtle’ wearing sunglasses. During the boom of tradeable sports cards, Pokemon cards rose in value and Paul was one of the first mainstream YouTubers to cash in on the hype train.

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Since then, Paul has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Pokemon cards. However, his latest and biggest purchase of $3.5 million on 11 extremely rare base set Pokemon cards turned out to be fake. Paul uploaded a video on his YouTube channel where he discovered the cards were fake. The video went viral and was trending number 1 on YouTube.

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Allan Binoy is a Boxing writer at EssentiallySports. Currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in English Literature from Loyola College, Allan fuses his love for literature and the sport of boxing to deliver quality copies about 'The Sweet Science.' Allan is a semi-professional soccer player for Diego Juniors FC.
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