Jake Paul & KSI could \u201ckill\u201d boxing with YouTube fights: \u201cA disaster for the sport\u201d Instagram: KSI\/Jake PaulBoxing promoter Eddie Hearn has warned that YouTube boxing involving the likes of Jake Paul and KSI could kill \u201cboxing\u201d if more focus is put on it. For the last couple of years, content creators have been stepping into the world of boxing to settle their scores. It started out with events being solely broadcast on YouTube, but it\u2019s expanded far beyond that. KSI, Jake Paul, and Logan Paul have had wildly successful mainstream pay-per-view events, with KSI launching the X Series alongside DAZN and Jake getting involved with both Showtime and Triller. The events have been major successes, and plenty of fighters and pundits have praised the influencers for bringing new eyes to the sport \u2013 even if they have played down the quality of the fights. However, the events could have a more disastrous impact on the sport long term. Eddie Hearn worries YouTube boxing could \u201ckill\u201d the sport That\u2019s according to Matchroom Boxing\u2019s Eddie Hearn, who promoted the first professional YouTube boxing event been KSI and Logan Paul. Though the Brit has been pretty positive in his comments about the events since, he does have some concerns as well. \u201cThere\u2019s boxing and there\u2019s YouTube boxing\u2026 but we\u2019ve got to be a little bit careful, it puts the pressure on boxing to deliver because if not, this stuff will take over and it will kill the sport long-term,\u201d Hearn told the DAZN Boxing Show. \u201cWe know the numbers it does, it does very well. So, if broadcasters start looking at this and go, \u2018actually, maybe we\u2019ll just do YouTube boxing\u2019 well that would be a disaster for the sport.\u201d Timestamp of 3:11 Hearn noted that he made a fair chunk of change from being involved with the YouTube fights, but he wasn\u2019t wholly \u201ccomfortable\u201d with it due to the quality of the fights. He\u2019s wary about getting involved again, but there are plenty of promoters who are wanting to be involved. KSI\u2019s close relationship with the Sauerland brothers is a prime example of that. It remains to be seen just how much bigger the YouTube boxing events can get, and whether or not they will become the focus of outlets that have angled themselves more towards traditional boxing shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jake Paul & KSI could \u201ckill\u201d boxing with YouTube fights: \u201cA disaster for the sport\u201d Instagram: KSI\/Jake PaulBoxing promoter Eddie Hearn has warned that YouTube boxing involving the likes of Jake Paul and KSI could kill \u201cboxing\u201d if more focus is put on it. For the last couple of years, content creators have been stepping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}