WWE executive Nick Khan has outlined the assorted traits of Logan Paul that stood out to him after Paul entered the world of professional wrestling.
Paul has surprised many along with his athleticism and the way in which he can elicit a response from the group, and has received praise from legends of the business, like The Undertaker. Khan recently appeared on Paul’s “Impaulsive” podcast, where he explained what caught his attention about Paul.
“Listen, when the chief who first brought Logan Paul as much as me, Triple H, and the founding father of the corporate said, ‘Hey, we should always give him a shot. He desires to wrestle.’ The very first thing we all the time search for — and it applies to Logan, who’s now full-time with us, acting at a particularly high level; it applies to Bad Bunny; it applies to individuals who have are available, Tyson Fury — to begin with, they need to be a fan,” said the WWE executive. “In the event that they’re just doing it because — as younger folks would say, I do not know, this is likely to be an information term — they’re chasing clout or something like this, we don’t need them.”
Khan further added that a vital criterion for celebrities who take up wrestling is their seriousness and keenness for it, which Paul reportedly had.
“Should you like it, we’re open to the conversation. And when you sit with Logan, you realize he has star power. You saw every little thing he had done,” he said. “So, from our viewpoint, it is a mature young man, definitely athletic. If he comes right down to the Performance Center and does what we expect he can do, there’s all of the upside on this planet. And up to now, everyone’s been right,” stated Khan.
He added that he was impressed that Paul, in addition to other celebrity wrestlers like musician Jelly Roll, were willing to embrace the physical nature of wrestling and weren’t delay by the toll it takes on their bodies.