JiDion explains why he still wants KSI vs Ivan Nikolov fight to happen: \u201cLet KSI beat his a**\u201d Instagram: ksi \/ YouTube: JiDion PremiumYouTube star JiDion still wants KSI to take on Bulgarian boxer Ivan Nikolov after it was discovered the pro fighter had several racist tattoos. Rapper, YouTuber, and budding boxer KSI shocked the internet on August 16 by revealing he was taking two fights in the same night for his highly-anticipated boxing event later this month. Alongside his bout against British rapper \u2018Swarmz,\u2019 KSI said he\u2019d also be fighting professional Bulgarian middleweight boxer Ivan Nikolov \u2014 but this ambitious dual-matchup wasn\u2019t to last. It wasn\u2019t long before viewers pointed out several racist tattoos adorning Nikolov\u2019s body, one of which read \u2018white power\u2019 across the boxer\u2019s stomach in large lettering. Criticism was quick to follow, with netizens decrying KSI\u2019s new opponent and urging the YouTuber to look elsewhere for another rival. Nikolov released a statement amid the backlash, arguing that his tattoos had \u201cabsolutely no relevance to an outdated opinion and simply refer to my own belief in my strength and power as an athlete.\u201d However, Nikolov was apparently removed from the event merely a day later, with the boxer appearing to claim that DAZN had chosen to move forward without him. All advertisements for Nikolav have also been removed for the forthcoming fight. Despite the backlash, popular YouTuber JiDion says that he still wants to see KSI fight Nikolov on August 27 \u2014 if only to see the Bulgarian boxer get his just deserts. \u201cI look at it like this, chat: Is he racist? Yeah. But me, personally? I think the funniest thing in the world would be seeing a racist get his a** beat. You know what I mean?\u201d the YouTuber said. \u201cI know it\u2019s always like, don\u2019t give these people platforms or anything, and I completely agree with that, chat. But, I don\u2019t know. What do you guys think? I think we should let KSI beat his a**.\u201d For now, it\u2019s unclear if KSI will still go through with his ambitions of taking two fights in a single evening \u2014 but he\u2019s got JiDion\u2019s support either way, after the YouTuber became the first creator to sign to KSI and Logan Paul\u2019s PRIME Squad in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
JiDion explains why he still wants KSI vs Ivan Nikolov fight to happen: \u201cLet KSI beat his a**\u201d Instagram: ksi \/ YouTube: JiDion PremiumYouTube star JiDion still wants KSI to take on Bulgarian boxer Ivan Nikolov after it was discovered the pro fighter had several racist tattoos. Rapper, YouTuber, and budding boxer KSI shocked the […]<\/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-52008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52008","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=52008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}