Former NFL operating again Le’Veon Bell has continued his sports activities endeavors following his skilled soccer profession, transitioning his velocity and energy contained in the boxing ring. Bell’s most well-known contest got here towards fellow former NFL RB star Adrian Peterson, the place Bell was victorious. Now it seems as if the previous Steelers again has turned his consideration to at least one particular social media icon.
Le’Veon Bell Calls Out Logan Paul
Bell took to Twitter/X on Tuesday to name out Logan Paul. Paul most lately notched a victory within the skilled wrestling ring over Ricochet throughout WWE’s SummerSlam premium stay occasion. To his credit score, Paul has carried out sensationally within the wrestling ring regardless of his lack of in-ring expertise.
Nonetheless, Bell didn’t combine phrases on the social media platform, stating, “You actually can’t duck me ceaselessly, Logan Paul…at some poin, you’re gonna need to see me in that boxing ring.”
lol you actually can’t duck me ceaselessly @LoganPaul .. sooner or later you’re gonna need to see me in that boxing ring
— Le’Veon Bell (@LeVeonBell) August 8, 2023
One would assume that Paul, the brash social media megastar, would leap on the alternative to placed on a present with Bell. Sadly, at the least within the brief time period, Paul has different plans. He’s at the moment scheduled to face Bellator welterweight Dillon Danis on Oct. 14 throughout the Misfits Boxing card.
This encounter isn’t the primary time Bell has known as out each Logan and Jake Paul. Bell appeared on “No Jumper,” stating that Logan Paul had beforehand agreed to combat the winner of his bout with JMX and intimated that when he noticed Bell defeat JMX in 4 rounds, determined to take a look at different choices. Bell acknowledged merely that the Paul brothers are nowhere “close to the identical caliber of athlete” as the previous NFL All-Professional RB.
Bell believes he’s constructed for long-term success in boxing and that anybody from social media is not going to grasp with him within the ring for eight rounds. Bell faces his critics, who imagine the previous NFL star’s boxing profession will fade as a result of his lack of pedigree.
Will Bell get his likelihood to step into the boxing ring with Paul? Perhaps, however the former NFL again should exhibit his noteworthy persistence. Not solely is Paul scheduled for his Oct. 14 match, however he’s on the lookout for an even bigger pay day. The place higher to look than Conor McGregor?
Following the previous UFC champion’s tweet relating to Dillon Danis’ return, Paul did his personal “calling out” — just by tweeting, “You’re subsequent.”
With Paul going through no scarcity of boxing or wrestling ring choices, we stay in a wait-and-see mode on whether or not Bell will get his want.
