LOS ANGELES – On Saturday night, a pair of YouTube stars—Olajide William Olatunji, better known as KSI, and Logan Paul—will headline a professional boxing card at Staples Center.
The boxing purists seem to hate it.
I’m trying to figure out why.
Seriously—I don’t get it. Is it because a high profile boxing card on a credible network (or in the case of DAZN, a subscription-based streaming service) is being headlined by a couple of novices? Last week, DAZN streamed Canelo Alvarez’s knockout win over Sergey Kovalev. Alvarez is the biggest star in boxing—and arguably the best pound-for-pound fighter in the sport.