Tom Brady and Logan Paul's beef boiled over on Friday, as the NFL legend slapped the WWE star at Fanatics Fest, but was it real or staged?
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But when their panel ended, the sports stars got into a heated exchange that ended with Brady slapping Paul in the face. New York Knicks star Karl-Anthony Towns and Chris Costa quickly stepped in to help break things up before things got out of hand.
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The pair continued trash-talking one another ahead of and during the Fanatics Flag Football Classic in March. For the Fanatics Fest dustup, the audio of the sports stars’ heated conversation is largely inaudible, so Paul hopped online to offer his side of the story.
“This happened bc I was roasting Tom for beating him in flag football. And he tries to smack me?? Horrible example for the kids,” Paul wrote on X, reposting a clip of the incident.
“Aura -100,” he added. “Blocked. With a torn tricep. ” Brady kept his explanation short and sweet, firing back with one word: “Dork.
” He also replied to Paul directly, commenting, “I tried America… will try again next time I see this nerd. ” Many commenters wondered if the altercation was staged. Paul is a professional wrestler, after all, and, on Thursday, Brady expressed his interest in getting into the WWE.
“I need to get an invite. I’ve been waiting for Nick Khan to come up with some storyline for me to get in the mix,” Brady told WWE superstar Cody Rhodes during a live taping of the “What Do You Wanna Talk About? ” podcast at Fantastics Fest.
“I feel like I’m retired from football, and I have an opportunity to go out there and still showcase that I’m a little bit of an athlete. My boy done it. I’ve seen, obviously, Logan Paul do it. I think I could get in there for at least one match, right?
” And if Brady were to enter the ring, he said he’d probably be a heel.
“I’ve always been a bad guy,” he said, explaining that because he was usually on winning teams, the opposing fans loved to hate him. “When you go on the road and you’ve had some success in the NFL, they don’t like you. It’s an incredible feeling when you work that entire day to basically try to send the crowd home early. ” So, will Brady and Paul eventually work things out in the WWE ring?
That remains to be seen, but Brady certainly got the first lick in. Chris Costa, Wesley Sneijder, Tom Brady, Karl-Anthony Towns and Logan Paul onstage during the “This is Why We Collect” panel at Fanatics Fest NYC 2026.
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