Logan Paul reveals Dana White ignored his offer to fight at UFC 300

Logan Paul was hoping to be a part of the UFC’s historic 300th pay-per-view show.

WWE star Paul revealed that he asked Dana White if he could be a part of UFC 300 last April, but the UFC CEO didn’t respond to his text. Unlike Paul’s brother Jake, Logan has a good relationship with White.

Paul wrestled in high school and college, and thinks he would have had potential to do well in the octagon. In 2020, Paul sparred former title challenger Paulo Costa at the UFC Performance Institute, and appeared to hold his own in the grappling.

“I told Dana for UFC 300, I texted him, ‘Hey man, consider me available to fight on the undercard in the Sphere,’” Paul said on his IMPAULSIVE podcast. “Basically, completely ignored me, which I think spoke volumes. I haven’t bothered him about it since. I think for the right fight, the right amount of money (I would do it). Man, I’m an entertainer at the end of the day.”

It wouldn’t have been the first time a WWE star competed in the UFC. CM Punk decided to transition to MMA, and made his debut in the octagon at UFC 203 in 2016. He was quickly submitted by Mickey Gall, then lost his second appearance to Mike Jackson by unanimous decision at UFC 225 in 2018, which was later overturned to a no contest after Jackson tested positive for marijuana.

Paul insists he would have done better than Punk.

“He f*cked it up,” Paul said of Punk. “He f*cked it up, and after that Dana was like, ‘I’m never doing this again.’ But, dude, I’m not CM Punk. He’s a great wrestler, not a UFC fighter. I think I would be a much better UFC fighter than I would be as just a boxer. My skill is wrestling. I am a wrestler by trade.

“I think I found a path. I’m a WWE Superstar now, and it’s one of the only things I’ve done in my life where I feel so at home like, ‘Oh you were kind of meant to do this thing.’ I don’t know if I want to turn away from that at the moment and dedicate time to something that would be like a side quest at this point.”