In what was touted as the biggest white collar boxing match in the UK, the fight between Sensational YouTubers KSI 24 and Joe Weller 21 attracted a huge crowd that ended in a Knockout win in favor of KSI thus bringing to its peak the ongoing verbal battle between the duo online.
1KSI a popular YouTuber
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I’m sure almost every YouTuber user will know who KSI is. Olajide William “JJ’ Olatunji is a rapper, comedian and actor who is also a YouTube personality that goes by the handle KSI. What’s phenomenal about him is that his channel has now almost 3 billion views and 17 million subscribers since October 2017. That’s a fantastic reach for anyone monetizing a channel on social media. KSI’s debut album EP Keep Up was released in 2016 and hit no 1 on the UK R & B charts as well as in several countries. However today he is more focused on gaming and his content is mostly soccer and is rivaled by another YouTube called Joe Weller.
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2Who is Joe Weller
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Joe Weller is another YouTube personality who has been uploading videos onto the channel since 2011 and has almost 4.7 million subscribers with 1 million followers on twitter. Weller is well known for his football videos with an element of comedy where his main focus is FIFA. His ‘World Cup Song: Brazil 2014’ got more than 3 million views in one month.
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3The duo in a boxing Faceoff
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The duo faced off in an amateur boxing match held at the Copper Box Arena in London on Saturday. Both have been promoting and building up the event since the last six months and have been training hard in hopes to win but why did they fight each other?
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4Verbal duel online for several months
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Weller and KSI have a history of exchanging words on Twitter and leading up to the fight enhanced the verbal duel on social media. The arrangement for the boxing match between the two YouTubers began last year in August when the feud between them escalated.
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