Logan Paul continues to make light work of his WWE career.
The YouTuber turned wrestler is a former United States Champion with the world’s biggest grappling company and tips himself to have a bright future.
Last year he insisted he would become ‘the guy’ in 2025 and devote himself to his craft inside the squared circle.
Five months into the year, it’s safe to say he appears to still be be aiming at quality over quantity with regard to his appearances.
Paul is a high-profile figure and, since his debut back in 2022, WWE have been careful with how they use the star and the ways in which he’s featured.
He’s not quite been the workhorse of the company, though. In his entire in-ring career to date, for example, he has wrestled just eleven matches all told – the most recent of those being against AJ Styles at WrestleMania last month.
He’s participated in less than 20 overall when you add in appearances in the ring for the likes of Royal Rumble bouts, tag team efforts and multi-man match-ups.
Despite being used sparingly, the hugely talented star remains in contention for top on-screen honours in WWE, battling newly-crowned World Heavyweight Champion Jey Uso in recent weeks.
The 30-year-old is hovering around the title picture as Uso continues to fight on multiple fronts, also having previous incumbent Seth Rollins to contend with.
Having already wrestled in title matches in over 30% of his bouts to date, a showdown for the gold with Uso now seems inevitable, not least thanks to Paul’s latest fleeting WWE appearance.
The brash, charismatic star didn’t even feature officially on Monday night’s episode of Raw on Netflix, but made himself known nonetheless with an ambush after the red brand went off the air on the streaming giant.
The live Nebraska crowd were busy celebrating with Uso after a successful title defence against Rollins – albeit by disqualification – when Paul struck from within the crowd.
Dressed in a black hoodie and blending in with the fan barrier at ringside, he levelled his rival with a punch, leaving him knocked out cold – at least in a storyline sense.
The unexpected surprise of seeing the blow come from the crowd brought an audible gasp in the arena, and created a buzz online, too.
WWE Chief Content Officer and Head of Creative Paul Levesque played up to the drama soon after, too, in reply to a clip of the footage – posted by WWE, of course – that had already garnered 1.5 million viewers by mid-morning Tuesday.
In a simple response, he purred: “The show never ends.”
Fans, in response, hailed the ‘nice storytelling’ of intentionally leaving a slice of the action off air, but others were less than impressed, having sat through a three-hour broadcast only to see the sizable show ending surface on social media.
“Would have been nice to see it but Netflix went off the air in the States,” bemoaned one.
“Was hoping it wouldn’t be like that when you moved to Netflix.”
Another sniped back at Triple H’s praise with a post tagging Netflix, saying: “Yo Netflix. How does upper management feel that you’re paying [Triple H] $5 billion and leave out content like this?”
A third complained: “I’m so confused as to why this wasn’t shown live on Netflix.”
The streaming giant dipped its toe into the wrestling water this year after acquiring the rights to WWE Raw in the US for a reported $5bn.
All major pay-per-view events are show on Netflix, too, as are shows like SmackDown and NXT outside the States.
