{"id":692025,"date":"2026-01-12T23:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/692025\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T23:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:08:12","slug":"ksi-offered-30-million-to-fight-paul-when-it-comes-to-boxing-im-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/692025\/","title":{"rendered":"KSI offered $30 million to fight Paul: \u2018When it comes to boxing, I\u2019m done\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Jake Paul inevitably gets back into the boxing ring after his sixth round TKO loss to Anthony Joshua,<\/a> it won\u2019t be against his longtime rival<\/a> KSI. That\u2019s because KSI \u2014 real name Olajide Olatunji \u2014 has officially announced he\u2019s done boxing.<\/p>\n

KSI is one of the pioneers of Influencer boxing, making the combat sports industry pay attention in 2018 with a Logan Paul fight that sold over a million pay-per-views. He\u2019d go on to found Misfits Boxing,<\/a> which is one of the more stable promotions where YouTubers and social media stars can ply their wares. But after a five-fight run in 2022-2023 that ended with a 3-1-1 record, KSI lost his love for the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d say the training, how physically and mentally draining it is, it\u2019s just like nothing else,\u201d KSI said on The Ranveer Show. \u201cI\u2019d say of everything I\u2019ve done in my life, that is the hardest thing \u2026 By the seventh or eighth week, you\u2019re like, \u2018Why am I doing this? I hate this. This is horrible. I\u2019m getting beat up. I don\u2019t even want to get up anymore.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI fell ill, like, my body is starting to shut down because you\u2019re just feeling sick. But you just have to fight through it. Every day, the same thing over and over and over again. That\u2019s physically. Mentally, you\u2019re just cooked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Add in the uncertainty that big fights would come together<\/a> or that you\u2019d get your hand raised in the ring, and the juice wasn\u2019t worth the squeeze.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou win? Fantastic. Best feeling ever. Euphoric. You\u2019re over the moon,\u201d he said. \u201cYou lose? \u2018What a waste of my f–king time. What a waste. I literally spent 12 weeks of my life killing myself to not get the result I wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for Jake Paul, KSI revealed that he\u2019d been offered tens of millions to face \u201cThe Problem Child\u201d but claimed Paul always had excuses early on and then bulked up too much to make the fight realistic.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy main goal when I got into the boxing ring again was to fight Jake Paul and build Misfits,\u201d KSI said. \u201cTime and time and time again, it\u2019s just excuse after excuse after excuse \u2026 I think I tried to build up again to try and fight Jake again, and then he was just getting heavier and heavier, trying to move the goal posts when it comes to weight. It got to the point where it was like, \u2018What am I doing? I\u2019m done.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been offered $20 million to fight Jake Paul, $30 million to fight Jake Paul,\u201d he revealed. \u201cThese guys can\u2019t give me any amount of money to fight this guy. When it comes to boxing, I\u2019m done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Jake Paul inevitably gets back into the boxing ring after his sixth round TKO loss to Anthony…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,126861,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-692025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news-results","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115884648723134539","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}