KSI says Alex Wassabi fight is \u201cvery personal\u201d after agreeing to lower weight requirement DAZN \/ YouTube: JJ OlatunjiYouTube star KSI is adamant that his upcoming boxing match against rival influencer Alex Wassabi is deeply \u201cpersonal\u201d after Wassabi defeated his brother Deji in the ring last year. KSI is finally returning to the boxing ring this August after spending two years focusing on his career as an upcoming rapper. This will mark KSI\u2019s fourth fight ever, following his bouts against Joe Weller and Logan Paul in 2018-2019\u2026 but he says this next match is \u201cpersonal.\u201d KSI and Wassabi linked up for a virtual face-to-face meeting courtesy of DAZN, where the British boxer reiterated that this bout is as real as it gets. \u201cFor me, it\u2019s personal,\u201d KSI said. \u201cVery personal. Bro, I wake up and I\u2019m just seeing Alex Wassabi. And I\u2019m just like, I need to annihilate him. Bro, you\u2019re just there, every day. That\u2019s all I think about.\u201d \u201cI just need you on the floor. I need you annihilated. I need to show everyone how good I am, how sick I am at boxing. I need to rectify my last fight where everyone just thinks I\u2019m a swinger. No, no, no. I\u2019m a different beast now. Watch.\u201d That\u2019s not all; during the interview, both parties seemed to agree on lowering the weight requirement for their bout to 175 pounds after KSI taunted Wassabi for finding it hard to put on weight. \u201cI lost thirty pounds for you, so you can\u2019t give me all this s**t like, \u2018Aw man, I had to go up in weight.\u2019 I lost over thirty pounds for you, fam!\u201d KSI yelled. \u201c\u2026I can go down, keep going down.\u201d \u201cAlright, let\u2019s switch the weight to 175 if it\u2019s not a big deal,\u201d Wassabi countered. \u201cI mean, I\u2019m down. Why not?\u201d KSI replied. \u201cGo for it. I\u2019ll talk to Mams and I\u2019ll make it happen.\u201d (Topic begins at 8:15) KSI and Alex Wassabi are slated to touch gloves on August 27 at the O2 Arena in London, marking another major influencer bout after Jake Paul\u2019s August 6 fight at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KSI says Alex Wassabi fight is \u201cvery personal\u201d after agreeing to lower weight requirement DAZN \/ YouTube: JJ OlatunjiYouTube star KSI is adamant that his upcoming boxing match against rival influencer Alex Wassabi is deeply \u201cpersonal\u201d after Wassabi defeated his brother Deji in the ring last year. KSI is finally returning to the boxing ring […]<\/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-53307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53307","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=53307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}