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| Date | 25 August 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Venue | Manchester Arena, Manchester, England | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Tale of the tape | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Result | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Six round majority draw (58–57, 57–57, 57–57) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
KSI vs Logan Paul was a white-collar amateur boxing match between English YouTuber KSI and American YouTuber Logan Paul. The undercard included several YouTubers, featuring a match between the younger brothers of the main event fighters, Deji Olatunji and Jake Paul.[3] The bout took place on 25 August 2018 at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England. It was streamed on YouTube's pay-per-view platform[4][5] and ended in a majority draw, with two judges scoring it 57–57 and the other judge scoring it 58–57 in favour of KSI.[6]
The fight was promoted as "the biggest internet event in history"[7] and "the biggest amateur boxing match in history".[8] It sold 1.3 million PPV buys.[9] The rematch took place on 9 November 2019 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, this time as a professional boxing match.
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- ^ Hern, Alex (20 July 2018). "KSI v Logan Paul: YouTubers trash talk ahead of world wide web title fight". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 29 July 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2018.
- ^ "KSI vs Logan Paul: YouTube boxing fight ends in a draw". BBC. 25 August 2018. Archived from the original on 26 August 2018. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
- ^ Hamdani, Adam (25 August 2018). "KSI and Logan Paul weigh-in ahead of 'biggest internet event in history'". The Independent. Archived from the original on 25 August 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
- ^ Radio Times Staff (22 August 2018). "KSI v Logan Paul: why are YouTube's biggest stars going to fight in the boxing ring?". Radio Times. Archived from the original on 24 August 2018. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
- ^ Langton, Nick (21 July 2021). "Who won KSI vs Logan Paul 1 & 2?". www.sportskeeda.com. Archived from the original on 3 April 2023. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
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