{"id":813303,"date":"2026-03-09T00:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T00:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/813303\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T00:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T00:44:18","slug":"wwe-orders-logan-paul-to-cancel-boxing-challenge-against-nfl-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/813303\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Orders Logan Paul To Cancel Boxing Challenge Against NFL Players"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former WWE United States Champion Logan Paul<\/a> issued a challenge to box NFL<\/a> players, but that was blocked by WWE Management. The news comes as Paul issued a $1 million challenge to any current NFL player willing to face him in the boxing ring.<\/p>\n

Several active NFL players, including Dion Dawkins, Brock Hoffman, and Kingsley Suamataia, responded positively to the challenge. Logan Paul addressed the challenge on X.<\/p>\n

WWE Blocks Logan Paul From Boxing NFL Players<\/p>\n

WWE Management contacted Logan Paul during a livestream and ordered him to cease pursuing the boxing match. During the call, the WWE official stated:<\/p>\n

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One, we don\u2019t want you to get injured,\u201d It\u2019s just unnecessary risk, like you don\u2019t know if you slip, you fall. We don\u2019t want to risk any injury\u2026 we just would prefer for you not to be boxing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Paul insisted that there was \u201cno risk\u201d and despite his claim that \u201cthese guys cannot box,\u201d the executive asserted that the company would not grant him its approval for \u201cextracurricular activities\u201d unrelated to the wrestling brand.<\/p>\n

‘The Maverick’ then agreed to the directive from the official at the end of the call, stating:<\/p>\n

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At the end of the day, I\u2019m a WWE superstar and my loyalty is with the WWE. If I do not have their blessing to do some extracurricular activities that are unrelated to the WWE like boxing, as much as I would love to do it, I gotta honor my job and my commitment to my profession.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former WWE United States Champion Logan Paul issued a challenge to box NFL players, but that was blocked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,146,22138,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-813303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-logan-paul","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116196453018494412","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}