Logan Paul set social media ablaze on Friday evening with a ‘Hawk Tuah’ taunt during his latest match with the WWE.
Paul, wrestling live from Madison Square Garden on ‘SmackDown’, tried to pin one of his two opponents, Santos Escobar.
After getting a two-count and not the decisive three-count he was looking for, Paul decided to pump himself up by saying ‘Hawk Tuah’ in Escobar’s direction.
The ‘Hawk Tuah’ girl, whose name is Hailey Welch, has become uber-famous over the last week thanks to a social-media video where she references a sexual act.
In the original clip, Welch was being interviewed on the street in Nashville, where she was asked how she gets over a break-up.
WWE and social media star Logan Paul did a ‘Hawk Tuah’ move on Friday night on ‘SmackDown’
Hailey Welch, better known as the ‘Hawk Tuah’ girl, has become famous over the last week
‘The only way to get over one is to get under another,’ she quipped.
The interviewer then asked about Welch ‘one move in bed that makes a man go crazy every time.’
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Welch’s NSFW response almost immediately made social media lose its collective mind.
‘Ain’t no way @LoganPaul did the “Hawk Tauh,”‘ one social media user said.
Earlier this week, DailyMail.com exclusively revealed that Welch has gone into virtual hiding in a tranquil Tennessee town where she lives with her family in rural isolation.
Her pals in the tight-knit community 60 miles south of Nashville have created a protective wall around her as she processes her new life under the spotlight, however long that may last.
As of Saturday morning, the account belonging to Welch has over 110,000 followers.
Paul went on to lose the match, being pinned by longtime rival LA Knight with a roll-up, with NBA stars Jalen Brunson and Tyrese Haliburton also being involved in the segment.
Paul, the company’s current United States champion, has been under a WWE contract since 2022 and has been one of the company’s consistently used stars over the last two years.