KSI makes his large return to the boxing ring… and he is preventing not as soon as however TWICE.
The YouTube famous person’s authentic opponent Alex Wassabi needed to pull out due to an damage sustained in his coaching camp, and as a substitute he faces rapper Swarmz and then Mexican pro boxer Luis Alcaraz Pineda on the identical night time.
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Wassabi wrote on Instagram to substantiate he was pulling out: “With all these rumours going round, there’s solely two issues which are true.
“I’ve just lately suffered a critical damage and I will likely be again very quickly.
“You do not play with concussions. New fight date announcement on the best way.”
So KSI will face BOTH Swarmz and Pineda as a substitute, and that is regardless of Jake Paul’s calls for HIM to be chosen because the Brit’s subsequent opponent.


When is KSI vs Swarmz and Pineda?
- KSI’s fights with Swarmz and Pineda takes place on Saturday, August 27.
- KSI opens up his personal present to fight Swarmz at 7.10pm, and then closes it in opposition to Pineda at round 10pm BST.
- Pineda has a pro document of two wins and 5 losses.
- The fight will likely be held on the O2 Arena in London.
What TV channel is KSI fight on and can or not it’s live streamed?
- KSI vs Swarmz and Pineda will likely be proven live on DAZN PPV within the UK.
- The fight will price £11.99 to look at, on prime of your £7.99-a-month subscription.
- You can live stream the occasion from the DAZN app, which is obtainable for download onto your cellular or pill system.
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- KSI vs Luis Alcaraz Pineda
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- KSI vs Swarmz (first fight from 7.10pm)
Why is KSI not preventing Ivan Nikolov on Saturday?
Originally KSI was introduced to fight pro boxer Ivan Nikolov as his boxing opponent within the secondary foremost occasion.
But Nikolov has since been pulled from the cardboard and changed by Pineda.
This is as a result of Nikolov, 43, has been seen to have neo-Nazi tattoos, inflicting fan fury.
A “white energy” tattoo is seen on his abdomen and on his left forearm, Nikolov has a tattoo of the phrases “Blood & Honour”.
That is the title of a neo-Nazi skinhead group fashioned in England within the Nineteen Eighties.
Also in between the phrases is a triskele image, a three-pointed swastika which was the emblem for the group.
Nikolov additionally has a Schutzstaffel brand on his proper arm, which was the police and navy drive of the Nazi Party, who pledged an oath of loyalty to Germany’s ex-dictator Adolf Hitler.
His neo-Nazi tattoos have been identified by one among his earlier opponents, Daniel Blenda Dos Santos, who slammed the boxer after profitable their fight in April.
Dos Santos mentioned: “When I noticed his tattoos, a few of them racist in nature, I wished to harm him.”
KSI, 28, responded to the allegations on his YouTube channel and confirmed Nikolov was changed as a result of his tattoos.
He mentioned: “He’s a white supremacist
“Ivan is not my opponent anymore. He has been eliminated.
“The matchmaker additionally acquired fired for permitting this to occur within the first place. But sure, my new opponent is Luis Alcaraz Pineda.”
What has been mentioned?
“Just wanna say that on the finish of the day, the one of many foremost targets of this primary fight was to do away with ring rust,” KSI mentioned after the announcement.
“I wished to show to myself that I’m a greater boxer than I’ve portrayed up to now. If you wanna see, high quality.
“If not, high quality. I’m nonetheless doing it anyway. There are nonetheless many good fights on this card that I’m excited to see.
“We are the one YouTube boxing occasion occurring this summer time.
“We’ve had many issues attempt to disrupt this occasion however nonetheless we stand. This is a long run play, and I’ll fortunately take a small L now for an enormous W later.”
Jake Paul, nevertheless, has had just a few issues to say about the fight.
“KSI vs Swampz… Dod’t they’ve music collectively?” he wrote on Twitter.
“He’s preventing somebody who has by no means fought earlier than and that’s his pal…
“This fight ought to for free.”