Logan and Jake’s Paul’s mother begs them to stop fighting and become businessmen or politicians.
Pam Stepnick, 62, was heartbroken as she watched her youngest son Jake, 28, suffer a broken jaw after being knocked out by Anthony Joshua live on Netflix on December 19th.
Stepnick told Page Six that she was worried about Jake, who had “bitten a lot” before his $200 million fight with Joshua, and that she “knelt down” to pray for Jake’s safety after he was hospitalized after the fight. He later admitted that he had four titanium plates placed in his mouth and part of his tooth had to be removed.
Her other son, Logan, 30, is a star in WWE wrestling and regularly takes beatings from some of the toughest competitors in the business, including Rey Mysterio, LA Knight and Jey Uso.
“When Logan climbs on a high rope, you’re holding on to another big guy and one slip could result in a back or neck injury. I worry about things like that,” Stepnick, a nurse, added to Page Six.
Stepnick, who recently wrote a memoir, “Fk the Pauls,” about her sons’ rise to fame, hopes she won’t have to worry about it for too long as she and her sons plan to recover from the fight.
But is it politics that screams their name?
“The word is out,” she laughed, “I could see it…President Paul, or Secretary Paul, or the Secretary of Defense, I don’t know who you’d want it to be! But I do know that as we speak, they’re preparing for[life outside the ring]and forming other companies that are involved.”
Jake, who is reported to have an annual income of $50 million, according to Forbes, has co-founded a boxing brand agency, Most Valuable Promotions, with venture capital firm Anti-Fund. He also co-founded a mobile betting startup called Betr and launched the grooming line W by Jake Paul.
Logan, who is thought to be worth more than $100 million, is the creator of the much-talked-about Prime Drink and a major figure in the Pokémon TCG (trading card game) world.
“Personally, I envision them buying a sports team like football,” Stepnick said. “That’s my goal, so they can go to all the football games they missed when they were in college! I want to be like Mama Kelsey,” Stepnick added, referring to Donna Kelsey, the mother of NFL players Travis and Jason.
Stepnick, who raised her sons in Cleveland, Ohio, after divorcing their father, Greg Paul, had a falling out with her sons, who found early success making videos on the social app Vine.
They were “reckless” and “terrified” her while doing stunts such as “doing wheelies on the interstate,” before moving to Los Angeles as teenagers and avoiding college.
She even stepped in to help sort out their finances and business when they first rose to fame.
In her book, she details how Jake made a deal with his lawyer to give him money “forever,” meaning “from now until the end of time.” “Oh my god, I almost lost my mind. I definitely lost years of my life in that incident, but we won.
“I don’t want to toot my own horn, but if I hadn’t, it would have been a financial disaster for Jake.”
Stepnick said he no longer plays a role in their business and laughed, “That’s great!”
Paul’s family is known for having a rocky relationship with his father. Jake called his father “abusive” and claimed that “my father would slap me,” while Logan called his father’s actions “not completely legal” or “strong.”
But Ms Stepnick said she was “coexisting” with her ex-husband. Especially since they are now grandparents to Logan and model Nina Agdal’s baby daughter Esme.
“I still feel sorry for him when he’s angry, but he’s digging himself a hole,” she said, adding, “We are the only two parents in the world who can call each other and understand how the other person feels when something like this happens.”
In fact, the entire family, including Greg, ends up spending the holiday together.
Stepnick’s book is filled with tips on parenting that she picked up while raising two very independent boys.
“I want the world to know that my sons are normal people at the end of the day,” she said. “They’re not crazy people like you see on the internet. They’re just boys trying their best to be loved and appreciated.”
