Le’Veon Bell: WWE Cleared Logan Paul For Flag Football But Not To Basically Spar Against Me? Craziest Duck Ever

Logan Paul and football players went back and forth on social media for weeks over the athleticism required for football and wrestling. The most heated exchanges came between Paul and former Pittsburgh Steelers running back Le’Veon Bell, leading to the two seemingly setting up a boxing match.

The fight never came to fruition, with Paul being called by WWE PR during a livestream and being told he can’t take the fight due to the risk involved.

Speaking on the Da Get Got Pod with Marshawn Lynch & Mike Robinson, Bell gave his side of what happened.

“I’ve seen people duck people, but never to the point like this. This was the craziest duck I’ve ever seen. You got to the point where you set up the whole fight. 10-ounce gloves, no headgear, six rounds, three minutes. Nah, I don’t want judges. Let’s do three minute rounds and go until somebody stops. Let’s go until somebody says ‘I quit,’ and that’s who wins. Doghouse rules. I know he wasn’t ready for that shit. When I sent him that back, he was like, ‘I’m gonna set up the contract.’ 24 hours later, I was on Twitter, ‘I ain’t got the contract yet. I’m gonna give him 48 hours.’ That Sunday comes up, this dude already had a set up. He had somebody call while he’s doing a live for Pokemon. Think about if I had somebody call me right now while I’m doing this. ‘No matter what, tell me I can’t do this. Tell me I can’t go to WWE and pull up to wrestling. Tell me I can’t do that.’ That’s all he did, tell whoever Chris was, told him to say no. Faked a little phone call and act like the WWE said he couldn’t fight. Think about what he said.

“The Chris dude said, ‘I don’t want you to go out there and get hurt. I don’t want you to go out there and slip and fall because you can get hurt.’ Last time I checked, wasn’t Logan Paul out there playing flag football with Tom Brady? The WWE clears flag football, but they don’t clear you to basically spar in your gym. It’s your gym. You can’t work out in your gym, basically, is what you’re trying to say? WWE told you can’t work out in your gym, but you can play flag football? That boy, he knows. He said in his tweet, ‘For one, you can actually fight. I would have to stop WWE and train for you.’ Basically, you’re saying you want to fight somebody who can’t fight? That doesn’t make no sense.”

Bell has fought two exhibition fights and three professional fights. He has a 2-1 pro record. Paul played in a flag football game on March 21.

Paul is one-half of the WWE World Tag Team Champions alongside Austin Theory. He is set to team with Theory and IShowSpeed at WrestleMania 42. Bell claims he will be at the event.

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