13 October 2023 , 14:31
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KSI admis he has no remorse for spitting out his chewing gum at rival Tommy Fury's dad John as their heated feud intensifies.
The YouTube star is set to take on his toughest test to date on Saturday night when he faces 9-0 professional boxer Fury, who most recently defeated Jake Paul in Saudi Arabia. The British duo have been going back-and-forth for months through the media and online, with tensions boiling over this week.
And on Wednesday at the pair's open workout, things were taken to a new level when KSI spat out his chewing gum at his opponent's father; the inimitable John Fury. But he insists that he has no regrets over the incident, telling Mirror Fighting he felt disrespected by his rival's behaviour prior, which included having a bottle thrown up at his private balcony.
"I spit my chewing gum at him," KSI explained after the pair were separated by a cage for their press conference face-off yesterday. "Because I thought 'don't you dare throw something at me, don't disrespect me'. If you try to disrespect me I will absolutely disrespect you too."
Fury was enraged by the incident, telling Mirror Fighting afterwards that he felt it was indicative of the social media star having "no class". And he even went as far as to say that he has more respect for Paul, with whom he still shares a bitter feud to this day after their first bout ended in a split decision.
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"I mean it's just scruffy isn't it," Fury said. "And it's classless, there's no class in KSI, no professionalism and at the end of the day he will pay on Saturday night, I promise you that. That's what you're dealing with, it's like dealing with a child from the school yard. He's not grown up, that's the stuff 15-year-old kids do.
"So I'm not interested in what he's got to say or do, I'm really not. We're two days out from the fight and he will pay. I feel like these shenanigans are just very childish, Jake Paul is a lot more controlled and we just got down to business. It's tongue-in-cheek going into that fight with two-and-a-half years of build-up but it was a lot more professional than this."