KSI vs Fournier last night: latest fight updates and results after the knockout

Joe Fournier said on his Instagram story that he will appeal the result after KSI earned a knockout victory.

“I knew that in fighting with the promoter there would be all the angles in his [favour] but to call this a KO instead of a disqualification after an intentional nudge is disgusting!” Fournier posted.

“We will appeal this decision on Monday and I hope that both [KSI and Misfits Boxing, and Professional Boxing Association] do the right thing and show your integrity to the sport of boxing!”

KSI came under harsher criticism last month for its use of a racial slur in a YouTube video, prompting the 29-year-old to apologize and visit a mosque in Bradford in an effort to educate himself on the matter. “There is no excuse, no matter the circumstances,” wrote on Twitter. “I shouldn’t have said it and I’m sorry. I have always told my audience that they should not worship me or put me on a pedestal, because I am human. I’m not perfect, I’m going to be wrong in life and lately I’ve been making a lot of mistakes.

Fans will hope that KSI’s preparations for his future fights keep him out of such trouble, though his progress has only been gradual. He lacks form, but his power is impressive, as he demonstrated against Joe Fournier last night. The 40-year-old, a former professional boxer with a 9-0 record and an exhibition loss to David Haye in 2021, was continually pinned down by heavy punches from KSI for a round and a half, though it was in fact an accidental elbow that finished off Fournier.

Regardless, it was a brutal knockout for Fournier, who left Wembley Arena in a daze to return to his fitness and nightclub businesses. Perhaps those are areas for KSI to conquer one day; it wouldn’t be a surprise. For now, though, his boxing effort takes precedence.

JJ’s goal was always to leave his schoolmates in stitches. KSI sets out to leave their opponents with stitches.

Reacting to a clip of the knockout on social media, Jake Paul said he did not “respect” the way the fight had ended and called for KSI to be disqualified, or that the controversial result should be declared void.

“I respect boxing too much to respect what that was,” Paul tweeted. “If that was actually an actual boxing match, it will be declared a no-no or disqualified.”

“He cheated, sure, in black and white,” Fournier told Fred Peck. “You all have seen the replays, it’s gone viral, it’s all over the world.

“He hit me with a clean elbow and the referee was there, watching him. Obviously [KSI] owns the promotion; when you’re fighting the promoter on his own show… I’ve never been cheated like that in my life.”

KSI, for its part, has mastered the art of self-promotion, but now it’s also trying to turn that into something external. Now 29 years old, with over 30 million subscribers, seven billion views and a reported net worth of over $25 million, KSI returned to boxing in August. At London’s O2 Arena, he stopped rapper Swarmz and professional boxer (loosely speaking) Luis Alcaraz Pineda on the same night. Notably, the event was the first to be hosted by Misfits Boxing, a promotion created by KSI in association with Wasserman Promotions and the streaming platform Dazn.

Another, more unlikely partnership followed, as mutually antagonistic KSI and Logan Paul launched Prime energy drink together. For reasons that are difficult to discern beyond the international awareness of YouTubers, the drink flooded the country and shelves, selling out in many stores and eventually being banned from some schools in the UK, US, Canada, Australia and the South. Africa. However, he has attracted endorsement deals with Arsenal FC, the UFC and WWE, with KSI appearing alongside Paul at this year’s WrestleMania. Testing the drink on Heart radio, Gordon Ramsay said: “Oh, Jesus. It’s like swallowing a perfume. What would I give it out of 10? A zero.

Popularity is not synonymous with likeability as some believe, and KSI has had detractors for a long time. Wisely though, he began to build up a general desire to see him get punched in the face. In 2018, KSI fought his first amateur boxing match, beating British YouTuber Joe Weller via TKO in three rounds, following a build-up that saw KSI mock his opponent for opening up about experiences with depression. KSI later apologized for his comments.

Next up for the Brit was Logan Paul, who somehow seemed to be his American equivalent, and the pair battled to a draw in a sold-out Manchester Arena. The fight reported 1.3 million pay-per-view buys, leading to a professional rematch in 2019, held at the famed Staples Center in Los Angeles, broadcast on Dazn, promoted by Eddie Hearn, and won by KSI on points. Fighting on the undercard were world champions Billy Joe Saunders and Devin Haney, the latter of whom defends his undisputed lightweight titles against Vasily Lomachenko this month.

The dynamic was baffling to most boxing fans, who accused YouTubers of making fun of the sport, but pop star Justin Bieber was on hand as the likes of Haney and Saunders were exposed to a whole new audience, one that would otherwise way they would never have seen. reached. Hearn, boxing’s most recognizable promoter, recognized this.

If the YouTube company “made sense” to his peers, so did his next move, when he released his first rap song in 2015. “I remember writing a rap to learn every element on the periodic table, and all the teachers were very impressed,” adds his schoolmate, but it was singing about supercars after he dropped out that showed how dramatically KSI’s life had changed. His debut single “Lamborghini,” featuring P Money, peaked at No. 30 on the UK chart.Since then, it has been followed by numerous EPs and two studio albums.

However, KSI’s next effort was less predictable.

“He was so sweet that no one would have said, ‘Oh, he’ll fight when he’s older,’” says a schoolmate. “When she did it, she was like, ‘Oh, gosh. Well, I guess he can, so who’s to stop him?’”

Jake Paul said his rival KSI should be stripped of the win after knocking out Joe Fournier with an accidental elbow.

YouTube star KSI knocked out former professional boxer Fournier in the second round of an exhibition fight at London’s Wembley Arena after elbowing him as he attempted a right hook.

KSI, who landed the heaviest blows during the first round, denied stopping Fournier with an elbow in the post-fight interview, but replays showed contact had been made.

Reacting to a clip of the knockout on social media, Paul said he did not “respect” the way the fight had ended and called for KSI to be disqualified, or that the controversial result should be declared void.

“I respect boxing too much to respect what that was,” Paul tweeted. “If that was actually an actual boxing match, it will be declared a no-no or disqualified.”

JJ’s persona was tailor-made for YouTube, where he launched his ‘KSIOlajideBT’ channel in 2009, four years after the platform’s inception. Fifteen years old at the time, JJ quickly gained a following by filming himself playing FIFA, the famous soccer video game, at his parents’ house in Watford. His haunting laugh was a key feature in every charge. “He always had that very distinctive laugh,” recalls a schoolmate. “I remember that. He was laughing at something during the morning check-in, and the teachers were like, ‘JJ, please!'”

By the end of 2009, Olajide Olatunji had amassed 1,000 subscribers. That number had tripled by the end of 2010, and Olatunji’s growth accelerated to an astonishing rate in 2011, when it reached 150,000 subscribers, and in 2012, when it crossed the 1 million mark. JJ had become KSI, which stands for “Knowledge Force Integrity”, and would soon become arguably Britain’s most famous YouTuber.

“When he started growing up on YouTube, it wasn’t a surprise to anyone,” says this schoolmate, “but you would hear from certain people who knew him, ‘Oh, he definitely has a bit of an ego now. He’s not so sweet anymore, there’s an arrogance there, he talks about himself a lot. He used to be more engaged when he talked to people.’”

Before KSI, there was Olajide Olatunji – “JJ” for short. Before the YouTuber, gamer, rapper, boxer, promoter and energy drink mogul, there was the suave class clown in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.

“I remember we did a production of Sweeney Todd,” says one of his schoolmates. the independent. “He played the judge, and when he died at the end, he was wriggling and worming across the stage. Everyone was in stitches. He was funny, a good guy, everyone liked him for it. It was popular, but not like, ‘I’m the s***’; he was confident, but he was also a nerdy, caring, sweet guy.”