Logan Paul Wears Most Expensive Pokemon Card to Wrestlemania 38

Logan Paul made his wrestling debut at WrestleMania 38 with the world’s most expensive Pokémon card around his neck.

Paul paid the equivalent of more than $5 million for a Japanese Pikachu Illustrator card originally given away to just 39 art contest winners in 1998.

This specific card is a grade ten, meaning it’s in the best condition possible, and the only one in existence. Paul swapped a grade nine version of the card (for which he paid $1.275 million) alongside $4 million in cash for what is now the most expensive Pokémon card ever sold privately.

He wore it in a diamond encrusted case on a gold chain as he walked on-stage at WrestleMania with his tag-team partner The Miz for his match against Rey and Dominik Mysterio.

A Guinness World Record certificate for the most expensive Pokémon card was presented to Paul following the match. He told the adjudicator: “I love Pokémon and the fact that it’s been validated with Guinness World Records. This is crazy. Tonight’s a wild night.”

A flashy card on a gold chain is seemingly the YouTuber turned wrestler’s signature look, as last year he sported a shiny Charizard Pokémon card to his boxing match against Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Paul is an avid Pokemon card collector and spends quite a bit on rare and valuable cards. However, there are risks with the hobby as Paul discovered when he paid $3.5 million for a fake box of first-edition Pokemon booster packs.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer who occasionally remembers to tweet @thelastdinsdale. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.