Logan Paul CONFRONTS Floyd Mayweather Over Money He Still Owes Him..

Five years after stepping into the ring with Floyd Mayweather, Logan Paul says he’s still waiting to be paid. Now, he’s publicly confronting the boxing legend over the money he claims he’s owed, and Mayweather’s response has only made the controversy even bigger. Here’s what happened.

 It started on a couch, on a podcast with Logan Paul just talking. On March 1, 2026, Paul sat down with Graham Stephan on the Iced Coffee Hour, and what came out of his mouth wasn’t a throwaway line. Logan Paul just stirred up old drama on the Iced Coffee podcast. Sitting down with host Graham Stephan and dropping details about his ongoing beef with Floyd Mayweather.

 This wasn’t Paul hinting at something vague. He gave numbers. He gave a percentage. He gave a company name he half remembered, a country he wasn’t totally sure of, and a dollar figure he was completely sure of. Here’s the breakdown in his own  words. Paul explained that before the fight ever touched down in Miami, Mayweather had already sold the rights to a company overseas.

 He pre-sold the fight using my name and likeness to a company, I think in Dubai or somewhere in the Middle East, for $10 million cash, Paul said. We ended up doing the fight in the US with a different company. That’s the part that stings for Paul. The fight everyone watched, the one at Hard Rock Stadium, wasn’t the deal Mayweather originally cashed in on.

There was an earlier version of this fight sold overseas, and Paul says his name was attached to that sale, whether he got paid for it or not. Then Paul does the math out loud, like he’s rehearsed it a hundred times in his head. “Our deal was 15%. He smoked me. 15% of $10 million is $1,500,000,” Paul said. “1.5 million.

 That’s the number. Not a rough guess, not a couple million like he’d said in years past. A specific, calculated figure, tied to a specific percentage, tied to a specific sale.” And then comes the part that almost sounds like Paul’s given up before he’s even started fighting for it. The company that paid him $10 million is suing him.

 I don’t think I’m ever getting the money. That’s a strange thing to hear from someone confronting another man over money. Paul isn’t threatening a lawsuit here. He’s not screaming for a check. He’s laying out the case and then shrugging, almost resigned to the idea that Mayweather’s tangled up in so much other legal mess that Paul’s slice just isn’t coming.

 I actually don’t know the status of that lawsuit, but he has a bunch of legal trouble at the moment. I don’t think I’m ever getting the money. Now, Mayweather doesn’t respond right away. Silence for a while. Mayweather did not publicly respond to Paul’s latest claim in those first days, but the internet doesn’t wait for anybody to respond.

 The clip ripped through social media within hours. Social media lit up after Paul’s podcast clip hit X on March 2, 2026, with users sharing the video. One account noting the fight’s no winner format and Mayweather’s dominance. Some fans turned it into a bigger conversation about character. Another post turned philosophical, saying money exposes character and that real power means paying what you owe.

 Others just wanted blood. Fans debated if Paul should sue, with some siding with him over the contract terms,  while others defended Mayweather, pointing to his history of big payouts. Then Mayweather finally opened his mouth. Weeks later, a reporter from Come and Talk to Me got him on record. And what came out wasn’t an apology, wasn’t a denial, wasn’t even really an answer.

Just four words that told Paul everything he needed to know about how seriously his claim was being taken. Mayweather was recently asked about Paul’s allegations,  and he gave a highly evasive response in an interview with Come and Talk to Me. I wish him nothing but the best. That line spread almost as fast as Paul’s original claim. Because it wasn’t a no.

 It wasn’t that’s not true. It was dismissal dressed up as a blessing. And for a guy who’s spent years trying to get a straight answer out of Mayweather about this exact issue, that response probably felt like the loudest silence possible. But before we go further into how Mayweather’s finances got this messy, and before we get into just how deep this money dispute goes, we need to rewind.

 Because this fight between Paul and Mayweather over cash didn’t start in March 2026. It started the moment they climbed into the ring together, five years earlier under a stadium full of lights in Miami.  To understand why Paul is still chasing this money half a decade later, you have to go back to the night everyone actually remembers, the fight itself.

The date has become shorthand in boxing circles,  the night Mayweather and Paul actually got in the ring together at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. The fight that started all this happened on June 6, 2021 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, an eight-round exhibition bout, meaning no official judges or winner declared.

 On paper, it was mismatched from the jump. Mayweather, the undefeated pro with a 50-0 record, faced off against Paul, a YouTuber turned boxer with limited experience. Nobody expected Paul to win. Nobody really expected Mayweather to try to knock him out, either, since without judges scoring the fight, there was no official winner to declare regardless of what happened inside the ropes.

 What actually happened surprised a lot of people. Paul didn’t fold. Paul held his own by going the distance,  landing 28 punches while Mayweather connected with 43. No knockout,  but Mayweather’s skill shown through as he controlled the pace. At certain points, Paul even used his size to smother Mayweather’s offense.

 Paul even showboated a bit, hugging Mayweather at one point to avoid shots. It wasn’t pretty boxing. It wasn’t supposed to be. It was theater dressed in boxing gloves and it worked exactly the way both men’s teams wanted it to. Everybody watched and when the buys came in, they came in big.

 The event drew massive pay-per-view numbers, reportedly over a million buys making big  money for both. This is where the money story really starts because the payout structure between the two men wasn’t even close to equal. The original deal structure for the exhibition reportedly guaranteed Paul a $250,000 base purse plus 10% of pay-per-view revenue while Mayweather’s guarantee was reported at $10 million plus 50% of PPV revenue.

 Mayweather walked away boasting about the payday. He didn’t hide his opinion of what the fight actually was either. Money Mayweather boasted earning up to $100 million for the fight he labeled fake while Paul earned a guaranteed purse of $250,000 which he later said totaled around $5 million. So even in Paul’s best case telling of the story, he walked  away with roughly $5 million for eight rounds against the best defensive boxer of his generation.

That’s not a bad night’s work by any normal measure, but not bad isn’t the same as what he was owed and that gap  between what Paul actually received and what he believes his contract entitled him to is exactly where this five-year grudge was born because according to Paul, the number everyone quotes about his payday doesn’t include the part of the deal that never showed up at all.

 His cut of a sale that happened before the fight even had a home. That’s the piece worth sitting with for a second. The Hard Rock Stadium fight, the one with the massive pay-per-view numbers, the one where Paul earned his $5 million, that wasn’t even the original plan for this fight. There was an entirely different deal in an entirely different country that fell apart before the world ever saw Paul and Mayweather in the ring together.

  And it’s that earlier collapsed deal that Paul says still has his money sitting inside it, unpaid 5 years later. To understand why Paul is so specific about that 15%, that $10 million that company overseas, we have to go to Dubai. Or at least to wherever this deal actually was, because even Paul admits he’s not entirely sure.

 Here’s the part of the story that turns this from boxer complains about payday into something closer to an actual financial mystery. Before Mayweather and Paul ever agreed to fight at Hard Rock Stadium,  there was supposed to be a completely different event staged overseas for an amount of money that dwarfs everything discussed so far.

 The deal had a name attached to it before the fight landed at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium. Mayweather Promotions signed a deal with Pac Entertainment Worldwide to host the event in Dubai with Pac projecting profits exceeding $100 million and guaranteeing a $110 million payout. That’s not a typo, not $10 million, $110 million guaranteed for a fight that never actually happened in Dubai.

 So, what went wrong? Money, of course. The deal collapsed in March 2021 when the company failed to deliver an initial $30 million installment. Mayweather’s side apparently had had enough of waiting. When the first installment of $30 million was not delivered by its March 2021 deadline, Mayweather’s team backed out and moved the fight to Miami through a separate arrangement with Fanmio and Showtime.

 But here’s where Paul’s version of events gets interesting and where the paper trail gets murky. Mayweather’s company didn’t just walk away quietly. They went to court over it. Mayweather Promotions filed a $122.6 million lawsuit against Pac Entertainment Worldwide, a company that had pitched hosting the exhibition in Dubai with court filings revealing Pac had approached Mayweather’s promotional company claiming it had extensive business contacts in the region and the financial capability to stage an event of that scale and that Mayweather

Promotions had signed a deal calling for a guaranteed $110 million and Pac didn’t just take that lying down either. Pac Entertainment disputed Mayweather’s version of events in its own federal court filing claiming it was Mayweather who breached the agreement. So there’s a real lawsuit over a real deal involving real hundreds of millions of dollars.

 But Paul’s specific $10 million figure, the number he says his 15% came out of, doesn’t line up perfectly with what’s actually sitting in the court documents. The specific $10 million figure Paul cited does not directly correspond to the numbers in the publicly available lawsuit which referenced far larger sums and whether the amount Paul described represents a separate transaction, an advance, or a different element of the broader deal structure is unclear.

 That doesn’t mean Paul’s making it up. It means there might be a smaller transaction buried inside a much bigger deal, an upfront cash payment, maybe an advance, that happened separately from the massive guaranteed sum everyone was fighting over in court. Paul’s telling is consistent every time he tells it. Someone  paid $10 million upfront in cash using his face and his name  to help sell the idea.

 And then the deal that actually got staged was with a totally different promoter in Miami. If that’s true, Paul’s 15% of that specific upfront payment  would never have shown up in any of the paperwork tied to the bigger $110 million Dubai collapse because it was already gone. And that’s exactly the argument Paul’s making, not that he wasn’t paid for the fight that happened.

 He was handsomely by most standards. His argument is that he was never paid for the version of the fight that almost  happened. The one where his image was already being used to sell tickets and pay-per-views to a market he never set  foot in. Mayweather’s side has heard some version of this complaint before, and their answer has always been some version of wait your turn.

  Back before Paul even had specific numbers to throw around, Mayweather was already fielding questions about unpaid money. Mayweather has previously pushed back on the non-payment accusations, telling reporters in early 2022 that pay-per-view money takes a while, and that he was still collecting checks from fights that took place years earlier.

 At one press conference, he went further using Paul’s own actions against him. At a press conference ahead of his 2022 exhibition with Mikuru Asakura, Mayweather dismissed Paul’s claims, arguing that if Paul truly had not been paid, he would not have been seeking a rematch. It’s a clever deflection. If you’re really owed money, why would you want to get back in the ring with  the guy who owes it to you? But Paul’s answer to that, even years later, tells you  everything about how this dispute actually works in his head.

He doesn’t see the rematch and the money as connected. He sees Mayweather’s continued boxing career as Paul’s best shot at actually collecting, which brings us to the part of this story where Paul stops being quiet about it, stops shrugging it off in interviews, and starts turning the unpaid money into a running joke, a public jab, and eventually a full-blown threat, one that pulls his brother Jake into the mix.

This isn’t the first time Paul has aired this out. Long before the iced coffee hour appearance, Paul was already making noise about missing money, and he’s never really stopped. The trail of complaints goes back almost to the moment the final bell rang in Miami. Just months after the fight, Paul took to Instagram and didn’t hold back on how how felt about getting stiffed.

 In December 2021, he posted on Instagram calling Mayweather a corny weasel for not paying up. That’s not subtle. That’s a public accusation, tagged,  time-stamped, and impossible to walk back quietly. By the following year, Paul had escalated from social media jabs to something closer to an actual threat of legal action.

 By 2022, Paul told reporters he was short a few mill and planned to take it to court. Around that same stretch, Paul sat with reporters and painted a picture that was almost comedic in how blunt it was, comparing his own bank account to the lifestyle Mayweather was bragging about. I got paid, just not in full.

 A couple million that’s somehow just missing. Where did the money go? Floyd said he could afford a Jeff Bezos-sized jet from the money he made from that fight. I ain’t got a [ __ ] jet. What the [ __ ] dude? At that point in the story, Paul wasn’t even naming a specific figure. He was somewhere in a range, guessing at the scale of what he was missing.

 On Andrew Schulz’s Flagrant podcast, Paul previously estimated the outstanding amount at somewhere between $2 million and $5 million. It took years and apparently a lot of thinking through the actual math of that overseas  deal before Paul landed on the specific number he now repeats every time this topic comes up, 1.5 million,  tied directly to that 15% slice of a $10 million sale.

 But Paul didn’t just complain in interviews, he turned it into content, into bits, into running jokes that kept the pressure on Mayweather without ever letting the topic die. When word came out that Mayweather was lined up for a rematch against Manny Pacquiao, Paul saw an opportunity to needle him publicly again.

 He posted a video on Instagram and the tone was somewhere between a joke and an actual demand. Floyd Mayweather versus Manny Pacquiao 2, the fight nobody asked for except me. I need this because if Floyd wins, he can finally pay me my 1.5 million. The 30-year-old said he kept going framing the whole thing as almost absurd that a man who’d made a fortune fighting with his fists couldn’t be bothered to send Paul his money electronically.

 I care that Floyd Mayweather, the best boxer alive, uses those same hands that made him a hundred million to Venmo me my money. That’s Paul’s whole strategy in a nutshell. Turn a real financial grievance into something so ridiculous-sounding that it goes viral on its own, forcing Mayweather to either respond or look like he’s hiding from a joke.

 And that’s when his brother got involved. Standing next to Logan for that same video, Jake Paul added his own line, half joking, half not. Alongside his brother Jake Paul, he also taunted Money with a threat. And Floyd, if you’re watching this, win it and pay me back or I’m going to send my goons after you. It’s easy to laugh that off as brotherly bravado, the kind of thing you say for a camera, but it also tells you where the Paul family’s patience actually sits on this.

 Five years of asking nicely, joking publicly, and getting stonewalled has apparently earned Mayweather a threat delivered with a smile from two of the most recognizable names in combat sports content. None of this seemed to rattle Mayweather much. Through all of it, the weasel comment, the courtroom threats, the Venmo jokes, the goon threat from Jake, Mayweather mostly stayed quiet or brushed it off with the same kind of dismissiveness he’d eventually give on, “Come and talk to me.

” And that pattern of silence, of I wish him the best energy, only became more interesting once people started looking at Mayweather’s own finances and realizing just how much trouble Money might actually be in. Here’s the twist that makes Paul’s timing feel less like a coincidence and more like a calculated jab.

 Right around the same window, Paul was renewing his claim on the podcast circuit, Mayweather was dealing with his own explosive money fight. This time, as the one doing the accusing instead of the one being accused. In February 2026, Mayweather went to court himself and the number involved makes Paul’s 1.5 million look like pocket change.

 In February 2026, Mayweather sued Showtime for $340 million alleging fraud that cost him career earnings. The lawsuit reportedly zeros in on specific fights from years back where Mayweather claims the network shorted him. In February 2026, Mayweather filed a massive $340 million suit against Showtime claiming the network withheld earnings for years  including $20 million from his 2015 fight.

 That’s a staggering accusation for a man who by most public accounts is one of the wealthiest fighters who’s ever laced up gloves and it’s not the only headline suggesting Mayweather’s bank account isn’t as bulletproof as his boxing record. Reports have surfaced claiming he’s behind on payments closer to home, smaller in scale but arguably more embarrassing.

 Mayweather has found himself in several non-boxing headlines all related to him allegedly owing jewelers in Miami about 1. 4 million dollars and owing rent on a plush New York apartment to the tune of about $400,000. None of this is brand new territory for Mayweather either. Long before any of these 2026 headlines, he’d already had run-ins with the tax man.

 Mayweather is no stranger to tax debt having previously petitioned the IRS for an extension to pay his overdue bill. Add it all up, the Showtime suit, the jeweler debt, the rent shortfall, the tax history, and you start to understand why so many people, Paul included, look at Mayweather’s sudden return to the ring in 2026 and wonder if it’s about anything other than legacy.

 Because make no mistake, Mayweather is busy. After years of picking his spots, he’s suddenly everywhere. Mayweather, already booked to face Mike Tyson in April and Manny Pacquiao in September, announced his third fight of the year on Sunday, adding an exhibition bout with former kickboxing world champion Mike Zambidis in June, giving  himself three fights in a 6-month span after sitting on the sidelines since August 2024.

That’s a lot of activity for someone who’s supposedly retired from real competition,  and it’s exactly the kind of pattern that fuels speculation. Even people close to the boxing world have started asking the same question out loud. Joe Rogan questioned whether Mayweather’s return is financially motivated with his lavish lifestyle being described as him spending money like it’s a tap.

 When a guy with Mayweather’s history and reputation suddenly needs three fights in eight months, people notice. And when Paul’s public campaign for his own missing money lines up with headlines about lawsuits and unpaid rent, it starts to look less like a coincidence and more like a pattern everyone can see plainly.

 So, where does that leave Paul’s 1.5 million? Sitting exactly where it’s been sitting for years, unpaid, unconfirmed by Mayweather, and increasingly unlikely given everything else Mayweather is juggling in courtrooms right now. Paul himself has basically made peace with that reality, at least publicly. Paul is resigned to the reality of the situation, appearing to have accepted the 1.

5 million dollars as a write-off. That doesn’t mean the story’s over, though. Every time Mayweather steps back into a ring against Tyson, against Zambidis, against Pacquiao, Paul’s name and his money resurface right alongside it, almost like clockwork. Fans keep bringing it up, reporters keep asking, and Mayweather keeps giving some version of the same non-answer, wishing Paul well while never actually reaching for his wallet.

 Whether that check ever comes remains to be seen. What’s clear is that Paul isn’t letting this go quietly, and Mayweather isn’t rushing to make it disappear, either.  Two of the biggest names to ever step into a boxing ring together, five years removed from that night in Miami, still tied up in a debt neither one of them can seem to close the book on.

 The fight’s long over. The scorecard from that one, at least, never mattered,  but this one, the one over the money, is still very much ongoing. Sources, SI Fan Nation, Logan Paul claims Floyd Mayweather still owes him millions. MMA Mania,  is Floyd Mayweather broke? Money still owes Logan Paul $1.5 million.

 Bloody Elbow, Floyd Mayweather responds to Logan Paul’s claim. Boxing Insider, Logan Paul says Floyd Mayweather still owes him $1.5 million. Yahoo Sports, four years after their fight, Logan Paul says Floyd Mayweather still owes him $1.5 million. Complex, Logan Paul claims Floyd Mayweather still owes him $1.5 million.

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