KSI opponent claims fight is off after \u201cwhite power\u201d tattoo backlash Boxrec\/YouTube: DAZNIvan Nikolov, the pro boxer added to KSI\u2019s August 27th fight card, has suggested that he\u2019ll no longer be fighting the YouTuber amid backlash over his \u201cwhite power\u201d tattoo. August was supposed to be a pretty big month for YouTuber boxing events, but things haven\u2019t quite gone to plan for either KSI or Jake Paul. While Jake\u2019s fight was canceled due to weight issues, KSI\u2019s highly anticipated clash with Alex Wassabi was scrapped after the latter suffered a concussion during his training camp. As a result, KSI drafted in Swarmz as a replacement but upped the ante when he revealed he\u2019d be fighting twice in one night. For his second fight, the British YouTube star revealed that he\u2019d be taking on journeyman boxer Ivan Nikolov \u2013 who holds a 3-16-2 record. Though, the Bulgarian has suggested that will no longer be happening. Ivan Nikolov claims KSI fight has been scrapped Shortly after KSI revealed he\u2019d be fighting the 43-year-old, fans quickly pointed to him having a tattoo that reads \u201cwhite power\u201d across his stomach. Though, Nikolov has played down any racist connotations. However, amid the backlash, the Bulgarian fighter has seemingly been dropped from the card. That\u2019s according to The Jungle of Sports, a Bulgarian boxing outlet, which claims that Nikolov told them that he\u2019d tried to \u201cdistance himself\u201d from the backlash. \u201cI was about to knock out this deceptive rooster. The problem came from DAZN TV, not the rapper,\u201d Nikolov said on Facebook about the fight, sharing the report. While there has been no official word from either DAZN or KSI just yet, Nikolov has since been removed from one of the posters advertising the fight. The graphic, which was posted by DAZN, still references the fact that KSI will fight twice in one night, but only has Swarmz listed as an opponent now. It remains to be seen as to what will happen to KSI\u2019s plans for the event, but to this point, it seems as if they are looking to draft in a replacement. We\u2019ll just have to wait and see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KSI opponent claims fight is off after \u201cwhite power\u201d tattoo backlash Boxrec\/YouTube: DAZNIvan Nikolov, the pro boxer added to KSI\u2019s August 27th fight card, has suggested that he\u2019ll no longer be fighting the YouTuber amid backlash over his \u201cwhite power\u201d tattoo. August was supposed to be a pretty big month for YouTuber boxing events, but […]<\/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-53231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53231","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=53231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}