KSI has finally detailed why the long-discussed fight with Jake Paul never materialized, despite massive offers, as he made clear that money alone was never enough to pull him back into the ring.
For years, the pair have traded insults, callouts, and negotiations, creating one of modern exhibition boxing’s biggest unanswered questions, yet every attempt stalled well before contracts were ever signed.
Now the British YouTuber addressed the saga during an appearance on India’s Beer Biceps Ranveer podcast, where he revealed the scale of offers made to fight Paul, describing numbers few fighters ever see.
“I’ve been offered 20 million to fight Jake Paul, 30 million to fight Jake Paul,” KSI said, confirming reports that the bout could have been one of influencer boxing’s richest events.
Despite those figures, KSI stressed that financial incentives never drove his boxing career, pointing to past decisions as proof that money alone could not outweigh his personal standards.
“My fight with Tommy Fury, all the money I made, I gave it to my trainers. These guys can’t give me any amount of money to fight this guy. When it comes to boxing, I’m done.
“[I] built Misfits, tried to fight Jake Paul time and time and time again. It’s just excuse after excuse after excuse,” he added, reinforcing his frustration with stalled negotiations.
KSI also claimed he was prepared to fight when Paul faced Tommy Fury and later Nate Diaz, yet insists the opportunity vanished each time, pushing him to finally close that chapter.
While KSI stepped back, Logan Paul later offered his perspective, suggesting weight differences played a major role in preventing the fight from ever becoming realistic.
“I’m working on it. I’m trying so hard,” Logan said on Impaulsive. “There’s a weight problem at the moment. Jake‘s technically the fat guy. [KSI] fights lighter. It’s a disaster.
“[Jake] genuinely believes that he’s kind of above the influencer boxing, and he classifies KSI still as an influencer boxer,” Logan continued, highlighting his brother’s stance.
“He won’t go down to a weight where he’s genuinely uncomfortable just to satisfy a YouTube audience. He’s big now. He’s bigger. He’s a thick f**king tattooed beast.”
Tommy Fury weighs in on Jake Paul‘s knockout against AJ
Meanwhile, Fury, who defeated both Paul and KSI, dismissed Paul‘s recent knockout loss to Anthony Joshua as spectacle rather than sport, while teasing his own return.
Paul stepped into the ring against the two-time heavyweight champion of the world and struggled to impress, repeatedly trying to clinch and falling to the floor.
AJ, meanwhile, was in complete control and simply took his time before delivering the knockout blow in the sixth round, breaking Paul‘s jaw in the process.
As many expected, the former unified heavyweight never got out of second gear against a smaller, lighter, less skilled and more inexperienced fighter. That’s part of why Fury wasn’t impressed.
“It’s all money, isn’t it? Money and s–t and whatever like that,” Fury said. “It’s like me fighting f–king Usyk or something like that. It’s just bo—cks, isn’t it? That’s all it was, grabbing people’s attention, it sells and that’s it.
“From boxing terms, you can’t really look into it at all because one man literally looked like he was on an athletics track running around and around and AJ didn’t really break a sweat, did he?
“Just a load of s–t really. Just a money spinner, a great money spinner. Fair play to both men. Earned a fortune and they crack on.
“I’m not gonna put that down but as a boxing match, it was a one-horse race. But as a business event, fantastic.”
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