KSI vs. Michael Bisping
In 2018 Michael Bisping gave KSI a lesson in mixed martial arts at a time when the YouTube star was training to fight other Youtuber’s like Joe Weller and Logan Paul in the boxing ring, but despite that it’s not something that the former UFC middleweight champion is a big fan of.
“He’s a YouTuber, I don’t know much about what he does,” Bisping said on his ‘Believe You Me’ podcast.
“I find it almost insulting to everybody that has dedicated their life to being a fighter. Come up the hard way, been a lifelong boxer or martial artist and then these two come in…They’re almost making a mockery of the sport of boxing and martial arts.
“They’re doing these big press conferences and pretending to be Conor McGregor or Floyd Mayweather, but I’m not into it.”
Nevertheless, Bisping did give KSI props for at least being well conditioned.
“He kept a good pace [in training] so his cardio was in shape – and that was a while ago,” Bisping said of KSI.
Two years later, KSI hasn’t ventured into the world of MMA, but he did defeat Joe Weller in an amateur boxing bout and then fought to a majority draw with Logan Paul, before defeating him in a rematch in his professional boxing debut earlier this year.
