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      Logan Paul opens up on ‘crazy’ rare £4million Pokemon card and explains why it is worth so much

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      LOGAN PAUL has opened up on his “crazy” rare £4million Pokemon card and explained why it is worth so much.The social media star holds a Guinness World Record thanks to his mega-expensive piece of cardboard.
      Logan Paul has opened up on his ‘crazy’ rare £4million Pokemon cardCredit: YouTube @Impaulsive
      Paul achieved the feat after wearing his 1998 Japanese Illustrator card on a chain for his WWE debut in April 2022.
      He wore the “Gem Mint 10” graded card alongside The Miz in a tag-team match against Rey and Dominik Mysterio at WrestleMania 38.
      Over a year on, he recalled the purchase on the latest episode of his Impaulsive podcast.
      During a discussion about Pokemon cards with guest Prince Royce, Paul explained: “I love it. I love it dude.
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      “I mean if you like video games that doesn’t surprise me but yeah I spent $5.3million on the card. It’s crazy.”
      He later went on to explain why some cards are worth so much.
      “That’s the thing with the grading,” added the YouTuber turned wrestler.
      “These numbers you guys are hearing, PSA three, PSA four, like it’s one through 10 and if they have the smallest little fragmented one documentation, like any little thing it’ll ding at a point.
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      “So to find a perfect 10 is insane and it’s the only thing besides, not even the actual card itself, the condition is the most important thing that determines the card’s value and it’s hard to get a 10.”
      Singer Royce then asked: “Do you think that the new certification is for real though?
      “Like do you think the new certifications are much harder? Like the graders are grading harder now than before? Because they’re saying ‘yo fake a 10 but it’s really nine or whatever’.”
      Paul responded by adding: “I totally think that. First off it’s done by humans so a person sitting there can change the value of your card from $30,000 to $250,000.”
      A keen Pokemon card trader, Paul has built an impressive collection of the items.
      He previously wore a £100,000 shiny Charizard for the ring walk before his exhibition bout against Floyd Mayweather in 2021.
      However, the total value of his collection is unknown, although Paul did once reveal he had lost £2.8million on fake Pokemon cards.
      Logan Paul received a Guinness World Record after wearing the card for his WWE debutCredit: instagram/@loganpaul More

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      Tyson Fury brutally told how to fight Oleksandr Usyk to avoid ‘12-round disaster’ and risks ‘point of no return’

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      TYSON FURY has been brutally told how to avoid a “12-round disaster” against Oleksandr Usyk.The Gypsy King has not stepped in the ring since defeating Derek Chisora on December 3 last year.
      Tyson Fury has been told he could be in for a nightmare versus Oleksandr UsykCredit: AFP
      Oleksandr Usyk could face Tyson Fury in a super-fightCredit: AFP
      Fury could return in a super-fight for four belts against Usyk at the end of this year.
      There are also rumours he could be involved in a bout over the summer.
      Carl Froch thinks Fury is setting himself up for defeat if he isn’t maintaining a high standard of training.
      Froch told talkSPORT: “If he gets too out of shape and he’s out of the ring for too long, it gets past the point of no return.
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      “All of a sudden he’s gonna find himself in a hard fight against somebody who’s bang average.
      “I think Fury would be too big for Usyk, but it’s gotta be an on-point Fury, it’s gotta be a Fury that’s 100 per cent on his game and fit for 12 rounds.
      “If Usyk decides to stay out of range and box and not engage, just jab his stomach and jab his arms and jab his chest, then take what he can when he’s in range – that could be a 12-round disaster for Fury.
      “I’m not so sure he jumps straight with him and that may be the reason why he priced himself out of it, because I think he did price himself out.”
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      There has been speculation that the delay in the proposed bout is due to a financial disagreement over a rematch.
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      I fought Mayweather and Pacquiao but they were nowhere near my toughest opponent who left me shaking says Ricky Hatton

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      RICKY HATTON fought the best of his generation against Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. But neither gave the Manchester hero as much trouble as Luis Collazo.
      Ricky Hatton lost to Floyd Mayweather in 2007Credit: Getty
      Ricky Hatton was knocked out by Manny Pacquiao in 2009Credit: Getty
      The year was 2006 and Hatton had moved up to welterweight in pursuit of a super-fight against pound-for-pound king Mayweather.
      And welcoming him to 147lb was the rugged Collazo, from New York with Puerto Rican descent.
      Hatton looked on track for his easiest night’s work after scoring a knockdown in the opening round.
      But Collazo came on strong down the stretch and pushed the fight so close that the knockdown was actually the deciding factor.
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      So despite the dazzling skills of Mayweather and one-punch power of Pacquiao, it was that night in Boston which sticks out the most for Hatton.
      He said on talkSPORT: “That was my toughest fight.
      “I mean, getting beat by Pacquiao like I did was very tough to come to terms with and Floyd Mayweather was just technically so good.
      “From a physical point of view [Collazo was tougher]. I never made fights easy for myself. I was always going to have it out with someone.”
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      Ricky Hatton beat Luis Collazo in 2006Credit: Getty
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      Hatton was a career light-welterweight – where in 2005 he beat the great Kostya Tszyu – but he moved up to become a two-division champ.
      He said: “I’m 5ft 6in. I’m not tall for junior welterweight. So, to move up to welterweight…
      “Billy Graham, my trainer, said, ‘No, don’t do it, Rick. Don’t do it.’ But I wanted to do what my heroes had done.
      “I wanted to try to become a world champion in two weight divisions. I took it, and I knocked him down in the first ten seconds.
      “I thought, ‘I’ll be in the bar in half an hour at this rate.’ But he got up and I won it on a unanimous decision, but only by one point.
      “I think it was only the knockdown that won it. The people that I could bully at 10 stone. When I got close, I could push them, shove them all.
      It was the worst after I’ve felt. I had hot sweats, shaky, shivering and I couldn’t even go to the afterparty I was in such a bad way.Ricky Hatton on his 2006 win over Luis Collazo
      “I couldn’t do it at 10st 7lbs. I hit him, and the shots just bounced off him. I went to shove him back and he didn’t move.
      “I thought, ‘Oh this is going to be a long night.’”
      Hatton, now 44 and over a decade retired, won Collazo’s WBA title that night but paid the price for it.
      He said: “It was the worst after I’ve felt. I had hot sweats, shaky, shivering and I couldn’t even go to the afterparty I was in such a bad way.
      “Every time he hit me – Floyd Mayweather wasn’t a big puncher, he was technically unreal – but [Collazo] was a big punching southpaw, and every time he hit me, oh my lord!”
      Collazo, 42, fought as recently as March, losing to Angel Ruiz Astorga.
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      Hatton would go on to lose in ten rounds to Mayweather and then be brutally KO’d by Pacquiao two years later.
      He retired in 2012 after defeat to Vyacheslav Senchenko but he did make a comeback last year for an exhibition with Juan Manuel Marquez, 49.
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      The last-minute clause in Anthony Joshua’s rematch offer to Dillian Whyte that is holding up fight

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      DILLIAN WHYTE has hit out at Anthony Joshua’s team for inserting a rematch clause into their contract. Eddie Hearn sent the heavyweight an offer to face AJ on August 12.
      Dillian Whyte hit out at Anthony Joshua’s team for inserting a rematch clause into their contractCredit: PA
      Anthony Joshua is in talks to fight Dillian Whyte on August 12Credit: Getty
      It comes as Joshua also closes in on a super-fight in Saudi Arabia against Deontay Wilder in December.
      So if Whyte were to beat his old rival, he would want to inherit the Middle Eastern blockbuster with Wilder.
      But should he sign the deal proposed to him by Hearn, it would tie him down to an immediate rematch with Joshua if he won.
      Whyte said on talkSPORT: “Well we had a contract, the contract’s with my lawyer and my lawyers have gone back to him.
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      “But there’s a lot of things that have been said publicly that are not happening when we’re negotiating.
      “They said it was gonna be a standard contract, but it’s not, there’s a lot of things in the contract now that they didn’t say was gonna be in it…
      “It’s like this, he said, ‘We’re gonna send a simple contract,’ and then they sent a very complicated contract with a lot of hoops and a lot of hooks to hook me in.
      “I don’t want that, I just want a simple contract, simple fight, winner moves on and has a big fight in Saudi Arabia.
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      “This fight for me is about the opportunity, it’s not about the money, that’s why I’m taking the fight for the money they’ve offered me.
      “But now they’re trying to put a rematch clause in there that ties me up for a year and messes everything up, I’m not interested in that.
      “I just want a straightforward fight, winner moves on, that’s it.”
      Hearn has already claimed there a two other names in the pipeline for Joshua to return against.
      But Whyte hit back: “What I don’t like is Eddie’s out there talking nonsense, ‘Oh, we’ve got two other guys waiting to go.’
      “Mate, no-one cares, just shut up, no-one cares about who you’ve got ready to go.
      “It’s a proper fight, let’s get the fight made, stop talking about all these backup plans.”
      Whyte, 35, has chased a rematch with Joshua, 33, ever since he was stopped in seven rounds in 2015.
      And he is willing to make a deal happen in time for the August date in less than eight weeks time.
      Whyte said: “Because of the fact that I’ve gone back and accepted everything they wanted without no push-back or nothing, they’re thinking, ‘He’s a bit too up for this one.’
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      “But I wanna go to war, I wanna fight the best people in my time and that’s it.
      “He’s one of the best guys around, so I wanna fight him again. I wanna go in there, have a good slugfest with him and knock him out.”
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      Watch KSI and Logan Paul get pelted with bottles of Prime at drinks launch as security rush in to protect pair

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      KSI and Logan Paul were pelted with bottles of Prime to the face on their tour of Europe… having asked fans to do so. The pair of rivals-turned business partners took the trip over to Copenhagen for the release of their popular drinks brand.
      KSI got a bottle of Prime to the face
      It came after Prime launched in Denmark
      And KSI sent the crowd wild when he screamed: “Drink Prime.”
      And it appeared some fans went a little too crazy as they began to spray the beverage everywhere and chuck bottles at the celebrity duo.
      Security did their best to fend them off but one was so perfectly aimed it bounced right off KSI’s bonce.
      The YouTube star gave credit where credit is due as he tweeted: “That Prime bottle to my head was pinpoint.”
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      As it turned out, the marketing geniuses set the whole thing up and actually asked fans to lob the bottles – so long as they were empty.
      KSI, 30, and Paul, 28, took a tour of Europe stopping off at Munich, Barcelona, Copenhagen and finally Oslo.
      During the trip, they announced a partnership with LaLiga champions Barca, having already sponsored Arsenal and the UFC.
      The hydration drink was released to much fanfare in 2022 causing a craze, especially in the UK.
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      Due to the limited UK stock upon its early release, fans were quite literally fighting in shops to get their hands on bottles.
      But now almost all major supermarkets in the UK sell Prime, including Tesco.
      KSI’s history with Paul goes back to their 2018 boxing match, which ended in a draw.
      It resulted in a rematch which KSI won a year later when they controversially turned professional in America.
      He is now six bouts in as a boxer and is in talks to next fight Tommy Fury, 24, who beat Paul’s brother Jake, 24, in February.
      Meanwhile, Paul has extended his WWE contract and has a spot in this year’s Money in The Bank pay-per-view, on July 1.
      KSI and Logan Paul’s Prime drink is now sold at TescoCredit: https://twitter.com/primehydrateuk?lang=en More

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      Conor McGregor and Jake Paul talked up for mega-fight as ex-sparring partner tells YouTuber how he can beat UFC star

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      PAULIE MALIGNAGGI has talked up a super-fight between former sparring partner Conor McGregor and Jake Paul. YouTuber-turned boxer Paul has called out McGregor ever since embarking on his polarising prizefighting career.
      Conor McGregor has been called out by Jake PaulCredit: @thenotoriousmma
      Jake Paul in training for his next fightCredit: @jakepaul
      The 26-year-old has even offered to face the Irishman in the cage as well as the ring.
      And McGregor’s old sparring rival Malignaggi fancies Paul’s chances against the ex-UFC champion in both boxing and MMA.
      He told Lord Ping: “Jake just needs the ability to hang in there and he can start to trouble him a little. He can put himself in the position to win the fight.
      “I think McGregor’s boxing is brutally bad, but at this point, even in MMA, if you hang with him he will get uncomfortable.”
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      Malignaggi has rowed with McGregor ever since their infamous sparring sessions in 2017.
      They sparred before the McGregor’s crossover blockbuster against boxing legend Floyd Mayweather, which he lost in ten rounds.
      But after images and videos were leaked – including a disputed knockdown – the American stormed out of the camp.
      Malignaggi, 42, has rivalled McGregor, 34, ever since and continues to aim digs his way.
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      He said: “Jake has a high school wrestler background so he would not be totally out of his element in the cage.
      “He’d need to be alert to his kicks, but McGregor had absolutely no balls.
      “If you make him just a little bit uncomfortable, you are going to put yourself in a position where you might win the fight. 
      “You can make him uncomfortable by beating on him – or if he’s beating on you – if you just hang in the fight he begins to get nervous and paranoid – he’s not a true fighter.
      “He looks for the first window to jump out of. He’s got athletic ability but his anxiety levels get high. That’s why he gets so tired in fights.
      “This guy posts pictures of him running up mountains, swimming 25 miles, bicycling through the desert – just to make himself look like he’s Rocky during training and then he gets in the cage and he’s tired after 30 seconds.
      “He’s got no balls. There’s no way you can get that tired unless your anxiety levels are through the roof. He gets scared in there.”
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      Watch Tommy Fury in sparring with ‘Goat’ brother Tyson as Love Island star closes in on KSI fight

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      TOMMY FURY got some sparring in with big brother Tyson as he closes in on a fight with KSI. The boxing stars traded body shots in the clip posted by Tommy, who recently boasted of going “12 hard rounds” with the Gypsy King.
      Tommy and Tyson Fury sparring in the gymCredit: instagram @tommyfury
      And he captioned the clip: “Training with the GOAT.”
      Tommy, 24, is coming off victory over Jake Paul, 26, by split-decision in their Saudi Arabia celebrity grudge match in February.
      But Paul snubbed a rematch to instead return on August 5 in Texas against ex-UFC fighter Nate Diaz, 38.
      So Tommy has turned his attention to KSI, who revealed talks are progressing between them.
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      KSI, 30, told his Misfits Boxing YouTube channel: “I am training for that fight.
      “Negotiations are going back and forth, we’re just waiting on Tommy essentially.
      “We’ve just gotta do a few things to make sure it’s all perfect, but it’s very, very close.
      “I’m training, I’m getting ready for that fight, that’s what I want.”
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      His manager Mams Taylor added: “We’ve gone back and forth and negotiated and now we’ve agreed to all the changes that they’ve requested.
      “I don’t think there’s anything more other than for the ink to dry for both guys to make this happen.”
      And Tommy’s dad and trainer John told SecondsOut: “Well, we’re nearly over the line with that one I think.
      “Me and the Sauerlands, we’re nearly over the line with it. I think it’ll be announced very shortly.
      “Until it’s signed off, nothing’s done, is it? But I’m happy, we’re nearly there. We’ll hopefully get it on this year with him and KSI.”
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      Watch Jake Paul SMOKE in training for Nate Diaz fight as YouTube star gets his ‘lungs ready for 10 rounds’

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      JAKE PAUL turned to SMOKING cigarettes in a bid to get his “lungs ready for 10 rounds” against Nate Diaz. The YouTuber-turned prizefighter returns on August 5 in Texas against Diaz, who is making his professional debut.
      Jake Paul smoking in training to fight Nate DiazCredit: @jakepaul
      But for the first time, Paul will fight over ten scheduled rounds after lobbying to have it changed from eight.
      So he took a leaf out of the great Ricardo Mayorga’s book – the volatile ex-champ who smoked before and after his fights.
      Paul posted a video with a cig in his mouth while training on the speed bag and captioned it: “Getting my lungs ready for 10 rounds. August 5th.”
      Paul, 26, was beaten for the first time in February, losing a split-decision in Saudi Arabia to Tommy Fury, 24.
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      But he snubbed a rematch to face Diaz, 38, who will be his FOURTH opponent formerly in the UFC.
      Paul has wins over ex-MMA champions Ben Askren, 38, Tyron Woodley, 41, and Anderson Silva, 48.
      But for the first time, he will fight over ten rounds and agreeing with Diaz to have the rules changed by the Texas commission.
      Paul has twice gone the eight round distance, in victory over Woodley the first time but then for defeat to Fury.
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      Meanwhile, Diaz has gone the full five-round UFC distance over 25 minutes three times.
      Despite the two-round extension, Paul plans to finish the fight by the half way mark anyway.
      He said: “I’m ready, it’s not going to go that long.
      “I think he’s gonna be sharp for a couple of rounds but there’s nothing he can do to stop me.
      “I’m faster, I’m stronger. I’m the better boxer. He’s gonna be coming forward.
      “He doesn’t have head movement. He’s trying to pressure me. He’s gonna get diced up. I see it ending in four rounds or less.”
      Jake Paul facing off with Nate DiazCredit: @mostvaluablepromotions More