
KSI vs Logan Paul rematch: YouTube fight is a strange phenomenon – but is it a crime against boxing?
The IndependentSign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The boxing lynch mob are erecting a scaffold for Saturday night’s six-round fight between KSI and Logan Paul, two novice boxers, at the Staples Centre in downtown Los Angeles. The YouTube Two, which will be a fitting epitaph once the carnival leaves town next Sunday, are innocents in the boxing business, two scrappers with no amateur pedigree, in a main attraction on a globally televised show and with a combined following of 40 million souls on various social platforms. Paul drinks “the blood of cows” to give him extra strength and everybody involved seems to have operated without a shirt for the last two months, with their YouTube faithful devouring every six-pack snap. It will be a sloppy and brutal affair, they have shown a desire to fight, but little evidence that they have acquired the skills an amateur boxer develops naturally and most novice professionals are allowed to learn slowly through easy fights; the instant demands of their fans will not allow learning fights against an unmotivated journeyman or a hapless import, and that means that Paul and KSI are genuinely entering boxing’s unknown.
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