KSI And Logan Paul Earn Absolutely Ridiculous Money After Fight

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After months of excitement, hype and some rather choice words in the direction of a YouTuber’s mum, dad, girlfriend and testicles, KSI and Logan Paul took to the ring on Saturday night in the match dubbed ‘the biggest event in the history of the internet’.

With 21,000 people packing out the Manchester Arena and more than a quarter of a million tuning in to watch the fight on a YouTube pay-per-view the pair could be looking at a staggering payout. Almost Mayweather-McGregor big. Seriously.

The two YouTube heavyweights established before the fight KSI would take the profits from sales in the UK and Paul the profits from their second match due to take place in early 2019.

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Metro reports around 773,000 watched the fight on YouTube at £7.50 which puts a potential £5,797,500 in KSI’s pocket and with the average ticket at the arena going for £100 adding another £2.1 million, the Brit’s possible weekend total could reach £8 million.

The purse was agreed to be split 50/50 pre-fight and while official details are yet to be revealed claims suggest it could have been more than £150 million.

My back of a rolling paper maths puts KSI’s total at about £83 million, plus the £75 million from Paul’s cut of the purse and you’re looking at … hang on … £158 million.

Last August before the Money Fight the Nevada State Athletic Commission confirmed the minimum fighters would earn would be $100 million for Mayweather and $30 million for McGregor. However Forbes recently reported The Money’s cut of the fight was $275 million or just shy of £203 million.

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The white collar match ended in a majority draw after one judge had KSI ahead by a point but the other two scoring it even.

The BBC reports after the fight both fighters thought they had won.

KSI said:

I think there’s only one thing to do. I think we have to have a rematch. Let’s do it. That was fun.

Paul said:

I think it’s what the people want. Let’s give them a rematch.

What an event. Felt I got robbed of the victory. Few more rounds and it would have been curtains for him. Oh well, proud of the boys getting their W’s. Huge thanks to Leon and Viddal. Boys for life. Thanks to my friends, family and my team for everything

A post shared by K.S.I (@ksi) on Aug 26, 2018 at 4:53am PDT

There was always going to be a rematch, obvs, but you can’t knock two guys that have just made almost £160 million for building a bit of hype. You’d shudder to see my bank balance.

Added to the excitement ringside and online, The Verge reports more people watched the bout on Twitch via pirated streams than those that did on the official YouTube stream. They found a stream on Periscope with 70,000 viewers and suggest at the fight’s height over a million people were using the site. The largest stream had over 400,000 people in it, but other unofficial streams brought the overall number much higher.

A Twitch representative told The Verge:

It is against the rules for streamers to upload content that does not belong to them, and that anyone who does so is potentially liable to DMCA takedowns.

They added:

We have been responsive to related reports.

today will be the greatest day of my life… LINK IN BIO to watch the biggest internet event in history at 12p PST, 3pm EST, and 8pm BST

A post shared by Logan Paul (@loganpaul) on Aug 25, 2018 at 5:41am PDT

In the build up to the fight Logan Paul, whose reputation online came into question earlier this year after recording a vlog making light of a suicide victim, made a statement in June. ‘A lot of people think this fight is a joke who are not in the YouTube community,’ he said. ‘All jokes aside, this will be the biggest event in the history of the internet.’

Like him or loathe him, the man’s good at hype.

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