KSI has offered Jake Paul the chance to settle their rivalry in a winner-takes-all clash at Wembley next year.
The YouTube star - real name JJ Olatunji - has been rivals with Paul for several years and fought his brother Logan twice, winning their rematch by split decision in 2019. KSI has always clamoured for a fight with his former rival's sibling, but took a break from the sport to focus on his music and content creation careers.
In recent weeks however, Paul and KSI have renewed their war of words which has largely been down to the latter's planned ring return against Alex Wassabi, which has now been cancelled with rapper Swarmz stepping in as a late-replacement on August 27 at London's O2 arena. Paul recently offered to step in at short-notice and fight KSI for free, but the British star rejected the offer.
However he has now made a counter-offer on social media, tweeting: "I'm going to send you a contract. We fight next year. Wembley Stadium. Winner of the fight takes all. 100 per cent of the purse will be on the line. Put your money where your mouth is and let’s finally end this. Will you accept Jake Paul?"
Paul has been endlessly hitting out at his rival in a crusade on social media this week, after KSI elected to replace Paul's client Wassabi with musician Swarmz - real name Brendan Scott- who he released a successful hit single Houdini with back in 2020. The YouTube star believed he could capitalise on the cancellation, having recently lost his own planned fight with Hasim Rahman Jr at August 6 last weekend.
KSI has faced scrutiny from fans after selecting Scott to be his replacement opponent over any 'free' clash against Paul. However he has since responded to the criticism, tweeting: "Just want to say that at the end of the day, the one of the main goals of this first fight was to get rid of ring rust.
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"I wanted to prove to myself that I’m a better boxer than I’ve portrayed in the past. If you wanna see, fine. If not, fine. I’m still doing it anyway. There are still many good fights on this card that I’m excited to see. We are the only YouTube boxing event happening this summer. We’ve had many things try to disrupt this event but still we stand. This is a long term play, and I’ll happily take a small L now for a big W later."
A fight between Paul and KSI would likely generate millions, with the pair having already come face-to-face when Paul defeated AnEson Gib back in 2020. It is understood Paul initially planned to attend KSI's outing later this month but it now remains unclear if he will fly to the UK.
