Weeks after YouTuber Jake Paul made headlines (on Macaulay Culkin’s half-birthday) after spectacularly losing his boxing match against pro fighter Tommy Fury, the somehow less-annoying Paul brother got candid about his loss, blaming the defeat on a wet dream.


Though Jake had previously pinned his split-decision loss on a whole host of factors, including an arm injury and jet lag after traveling to Saudi Arabia, the truth (and some nocturnal emissions) ultimately came out, after the internet personality detailed how he “fucked myself - literally - over” during a recent podcast appearance


“I literally woke up in a panic, like, ‘fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.’ I was like, ‘Oh my god.’" He admitted during the latest installment of his brother Logan Paul’s  “Impaulsive” podcast, noting that he didn’t even recall what the dream was about.



'You have two weeks of testosterone built up and so the reason a wet dream happens is because your body needs to release that energy,” he continued. “it knows in your mind, ‘this is not good.’ I fucked myself.”

Don’t we all, Jake. Don’t we all. So, like anything relating to the Paul brothers, one question remains: Is Jake’s wet dream nightmare — one he claimed made his “legs weak” — actually legit? The answer, it seems is more complex than the whole bygone Team 10 beef.


For centuries, sex was largely viewed as a major no-no before sporting events with notable sports medicine expert Plato (yes, that Plato) once writing that “Olympic competitors before races should avoid sexual intimacy.”



Though over the next 2,369 odd years (nice) several prominent athletes would adopt this approach, including boxing legend Mohammed Ali, others found that getting it on helped their performance.


“I try to [have sex the night before a game],” New York Jets icon Joe Namath told Playboy in 1969 (once again, nice), noting that

“most of the nights before games,” he’d “be with a girl.”



“One of the Jets’ team doctors, in fact, told me that it’s a good idea to have sexual relations before a game because it gets rid of the kind of nervous tension an athlete doesn’t need,” he explained.


Much to both Plato and Namath’s dismay, it seems the truth about getting it on before getting on the field may actually lie somewhere in the middle.



Two separate studies on the topic from 1968 and 2000 respectively found that the question of to fuck or not to fuck is pretty moot, as an athlete’s celibacy — or lack thereof — made no tangible impact on their performance in some physical and mental tests, per Mel Magazine. 


So Jake, Take it from the experts — don’t blame your wet dream. But hey, we’re sure the BYU Virginity club would love a new member.