Sibling rivalry is definitely a real thing when it comes to Jake Paul and his older brother Logan Paul.
The first episode of their new reality series Paul American dropped on Max this week and traveled back in time to Jake first announcing his plans to fight Mike Tyson in what ended up as one of the most watched fights in the history of combat sports. But just after the fight got made, Logan went on his podcast with his Prime Energy Drink business partner KSI and they mocked the matchup due to Tyson’s advanced age after the now 58-year-old veteran accepted Jake’s challenge.
That led to an ugly exchange over a phone call when Jake reached out to his brother after watching the podcast episode.
“I’m going to do everything I can to make it the biggest event as possible,” Jake told Logan. “You are the closest person to it and you’re undermining it. Sitting there with KSI talking shit about it. You’re so lost to me, brother.”
In a separate segment, Jake claimed that Logan has notoriously done this to him their whole lives so he wasn’t totally surprised it happened after he announced the biggest opportunity of his career.
“Logan is constantly undermining me any chance that he can get,” Jake said. “He’s sitting there with my biggest enemy [KSI] talking shit about the biggest accomplishment of my life. It’s just not what brothers should do.”
Of course as close as Logan and KSI have grown in recent years, Jake’s feud with KSI is well documented so it probably made that podcast episode an even tougher pill to swallow.
Still, Logan didn’t think what he said was all that harsh, especially knowing that his opinion wasn’t going to sway viewers from actually tuning into the fight or not.
“No one’s not going to watch Mike Tyson because I said he’s old. Everyone knows he’s old,” Logan said. “Bro, what the f*ck podcast did you watch? I upped you the whole time! I said you could knock him out in the second. I said if you guys were actually going to go at it, you’re going to beat him.
“Bro, who is your yes man? I’m not that. Get other people to tell you that it’s going to be a good fight against Mike Tyson. He’s f*cking old, bro!”
It still didn’t sit well with Jake, who tried to explain to his brother that perception is reality and having a family member disrespect the fight was just a bad look to the promotion of the event.
“That’s not the point, brother,” Jake said. “It’s about selling the fight. It’s coming from my own brother.”
The conversation then took an ugly turn for the worse with Jake taking aim at Logan’s personal relationships.
“I have amazing friends and family. You don’t even have a single f*cking friend, bro. [Your podcast co-host] Mike [Majlak is] a f*cking paid friend, bro.”
Logan then fired back with the same accusation before the conversation ended with Jake hanging up on his brother.
“You live in a house with your paid homies,” Logan said. “He hung up. What a f*cking bitch.”
During the episode, Jake and Logan’s mother admitted it’s difficult to see her sons at odds with each other, especially when things get so nasty between them.
For his part, Logan admitted that his personality often clashes with Jake and that makes for a potentially combustible situation.
“Jake is a tough guy but he’s also sensitive and I’m an assh*le,” Logan said. “It’s not a good combo.”
Jake seemed to agree, especially when it comes to the attitude his brother Logan takes with him.
“Sometimes I just don’t get why Logan treats me this way,” Jake said. “It’s sociopathic level lack of empathy for his younger brother and he’s constantly trying to tear me down.”
That awkward conversation was made even worse considering the fallout happened just a day before Jake and Logan Paul were scheduled to sit down with Warner Bros. Discovery to pitch the idea for the new reality show. Thankfully cooler heads prevailed and Logan later told his brother that he even edited the podcast episode in question with the comments about the Tyson fight.
Jake did eventually get to fight and defeat Tyson by decision in a matchup that was watched by 100 million viewers on Netflix.
The first episode of Paul American is now streaming on Max.
