KSI fight joins Anthony Joshua and Canelo as one of DAZN\u2019s most viewed events ever YouTube: DAZN BoxingKSI made a huge statement with his return to the boxing ring on August 27, beating both Swarmz and Luis Pined, and seeing the bout jump into DAZN\u2019s top five most-watched events in history. With a jam-packed sold-out O2 Arena, KSI finally returned to the ring after almost 3 years since his last fight against former rival Logan Paul. Originally set to face Alex Wassabi, who pulled out of the fight due to a concussion injury, the British YouTube star instead touched gloves with not only one, but two opponents on the same night. Kicking off the card, KSI stepped in the ring with London-born rapper Swarmz for the first fight of the night. \u2018The Nightmare\u2019 made quick work of Swarmz, who had no real prior boxing experience, resulting in a KO for the YouTuber in the second round. Later the same night, KSI then went back at it again \u2013 this time touching gloves with professional boxer Luis Alcaraz Pineda. Expectations were high, as fans were hopeful this would be test KSI as a boxer. However, once again the YouTuber showed how easy it was for him. After repeatedly landing heavy hitting body shots throughout the fight, KSI eventually won by KO in round three. KSI vs Swarmz & Pineda top five most-watched on DAZN Now, it has come to light that the event was one of the biggest that DAZN have ever done in boxing according to their EVP Joe Markowski. As reported by the DailyMail, KSI\u2019s card was among DAZN\u2019s top-five most watched boxing events \u2014 falling just behind Dmitry Bivol\u2019s vs Canelo Alvarez and Anthony Joshua\u2019s rematch with Oleksandr Usyk. \u201cBy any metric you want to use, that was one of the biggest events DAZN have ever done in boxing,\u201d Markowski told Sportsmail. \u201cI\u2019m personally very happy to be back in that space, because KSI vs Logan Paul II, November 2019 on DAZN, that sort of gave birth to celebrity boxing at that scale,\u201d the DAZN EVP explained. \u201cCovid happened and we stepped away, with good reason, but it\u2019s now back, and it\u2019s back in a big way.\u201d The August 27 event was watched more than Katie Taylor vs Amanda Serrano \u2014 one of the biggest nights ever for women\u2019s boxing. It also outperformed the highly anticipated Derek Chisora vs Kubrat Pulev 2. The British YouTube star is expected to be stepping back in the ring early next year, and Prime Hydration business partner and former rival Logan Paul is expected to be one of the many names featuring on the fight card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KSI fight joins Anthony Joshua and Canelo as one of DAZN\u2019s most viewed events ever YouTube: DAZN BoxingKSI made a huge statement with his return to the boxing ring on August 27, beating both Swarmz and Luis Pined, and seeing the bout jump into DAZN\u2019s top five most-watched events in history. With a jam-packed sold-out […]<\/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-53136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53136","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=53136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}