{"id":12098,"date":"2023-07-30T20:20:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/tommy-fury-v-ksi-boxer-to-face-off-against-youtuber-in-manchester-in-october\/"},"modified":"2023-07-30T20:20:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T20:20:09","slug":"tommy-fury-v-ksi-boxer-to-face-off-against-youtuber-in-manchester-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/tommy-fury-v-ksi-boxer-to-face-off-against-youtuber-in-manchester-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Fury v KSI: Boxer to face off against YouTuber in Manchester in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1\">\n<figure class=\"gs-u-mt0 gs-u-mb-alt+ story-body__media story-body__media--figure qa-story-body-media story-body__media--lead\" data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$image-0\"><span class=\"gs-u-display-block story-body__media\" data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$image-0.0\"><span class=\"gs-u-display-block gs-o-responsive-image\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$image-0.0.0\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"gel-brevier gs-u-ph+ gs-u-pv-alt story-body__media__caption story-body__media__caption--image\" data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$image-0.1\">Tommy Fury, left, is unbeaten in nine professional fights, but his contest with KSI will not be sanctioned by the BBBoC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p role=\"introduction\" class=\"qa-introduction gel-pica-bold\" data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1\"><span data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1.0\">Boxer Tommy Fury will face YouTuber KSI in a bout at Manchester&#8217;s AO Arena on 14 October. <\/span><\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2\">\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0\"><span data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0.0\">Fury, 24, beat YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in Saudi Arabia in February.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3\"><span data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.0\">Unlike that bout, the match-up with KSI, 30, will not be a sanctioned by the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) as professional boxing fight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4\"><span data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.0\">KSI, real name Olajide Olatunji, has previously fought in a variety of exhibition bouts, twice taking on Paul&#8217;s brother Logan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5\"><span data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.0\">Logan Paul will fight as part of the double main event at October&#8217;s event against a yet-to-be-named opponent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6\"><span data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0\">Former Love Island star Fury, the brother of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, called the fight &#8220;easy money&#8221; adding: &#8220;All that is left for me to do is send this man to sleep. I&#8217;ll do that inside four rounds.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7\"><span data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7.0\">However, KSI promised to &#8220;silence all the doubters that believe I have no chance&#8221; in what he says is &#8220;the toughest fight in the influencer boxing scene&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8\"><span data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8.0\">Fury is unbeaten in nine professional fights, winning four by knockout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9\"><span data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9.0\">He was expected to beat Jake Paul easily in February, but that fight went the distance and ended in a split decision in his favour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10\"><span data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10.0\">KSI found fame with The Sidemen and is regularly involved in sketches on their YouTube channel, which has more than 18 million subscribers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-11\"><span data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-11.0\">In April, he was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/newsbeat-65162143\" class=\"story-body__internal-link\" title=\"\" data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-11.$link-2\"><span data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-11.$link-2.0\">forced to apologise<\/span><\/a><span data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-11.3\"> for a racial slur in a YouTube video, an incident which led him to take a break from social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12\"><span data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12.0\">October&#8217;s card, which will be live on DAZN, is organised by Misfits Events who are sanctioned not by the BBBofC, but instead by a body called the Professional Boxing Association (PBA). <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-13\"><span data-reactid=\".y6bur42366.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-13.0\">The PBA is not the recognised sanctioning body in the UK, and KSI does not hold a professional licence in the country, so the Fury bout does not count towards professional records.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/66356029\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Fury, left, is unbeaten in nine professional fights, but his contest with KSI will not be sanctioned by the BBBoC Boxer Tommy Fury will face YouTuber KSI in a bout at Manchester&#8217;s AO Arena on 14 October. Fury, 24, beat YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in Saudi Arabia in February. Unlike that bout, the match-up with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12098"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12100,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12098\/revisions\/12100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}