On videos, you always have to be more entertaining. Yeah, I’m not, like, shouting in your face. It’s a little bit awkward, but.īI: You seem much more calm and normal in real life. It’s annoying, he might be at the afterparty. A lot of the training has been before this week, making sure I’m in the right mindset, and making sure we have fun and not worrying about winning or losing.īI: Really? He’s been doing some analysis of you. Q&A with YouTuber KSI:īusiness Insider: What have you been up to over the last few days? Here's our full interview with him, lightly edited for clarity. Bennett is a sensitive topic, given KSI has made lewd remarks about her before. KSI came on-stage wearing a mask of Chloe Bennett, Paul's actress girlfriend. Later in the day, the KSI persona would be back on show for the pre-match weigh-in with his opponent. When Business Insider meets him, however, he's surprisingly calm, collected, and polite, shaking hands and taking care to listen to questions. He's known for making off-colour jokes about sex and women, and his pre-fight trash talk against Logan Paul hasn't exactly been sportsmanlike. You can read more about who KSI is and his history of YouTube boxing here, and more analysis about who will win the boxing match.īusiness Insider travelled to Manchester to meet with KSI - real name Olajide 'JJ' Olatunji - to talk about his path to fame, and his plans for a post-YouTube future.

The match took place in Manchester, UK on Saturday 25 August and was estimated to draw up to 21,000 attendees, and hundreds of thousands of viewers on YouTube. His first bout was with fellow Brit Joe Weller, but his subsequent fight was a much more ambitious match against controversial US YouTuber Logan Paul. He is the 25-year-old British YouTube star who became famous off the back of gaming videos, but he's reached new levels of fame by taking on rival vloggers in real-life boxing matches.

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