KSI'S trainer says Jake Paul is avoiding their grudge lucifer successful a bid to sphere his boxing career.
A value disagreement threatens to basal successful the mode of a blockbuster bout between the brace of YouTube superstars.
Paul, 27, moved up to heavyweight to bushed boxing large Mike Tyson, 58, successful their arguable Netflix showdown.
The American bulked up to 227lb (16st 2lb), portion KSI's past combat - decision to Tommy Fur - was THREE STONE lighter astatine 183lb.
But Paul was down astatine 185 (13st 2lb) erstwhile helium was beaten by Fury - leaving KSI's manager Alexis Demetriades questioning the enactment implicit weight.
Demetriades told SunSport: "I conscionable don't understand. The communal crushed is 185 wherever everyone fought Tommy, adjacent though I deliberation we weighed 183.
"But we'll instrumentality 185, the aforesaid value helium mislaid to Tommy at. We'll instrumentality the combat astatine that weight.
"I mean, helium claims to privation to combat Conor McGregor astatine that weight, helium wants to combat rematch Fury astatine that weight.
"But yeah, he's got to enactment distant from KSI due to the fact that if helium loses to KSI, his full money-grabbing vocation is over.
"I deliberation that's the quality betwixt their coaches oregon their managers. He's an plus to them.
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"The information of the substance is if helium wants to unopen everybody up, instrumentality the KSI combat that's however it should be."
KSI, 31, is yet to instrumentality since a arguable points nonaccomplishment to Fury, 25, successful October 2023 aft suffering a manus injury.
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Meanwhile Paul has won 5 times since his split-decision decision to Fury successful Saudi Arabia past year.
His past was against a rusty Iron Mike - who ended astir 20 YEARS retired of status to return.
Despite the critics amid the property gap, a immense 108 MILLION tuned successful to ticker connected Netflix.
And contempt readying a determination backmost down to the 200lb cruiserweight bounds of 14st 4lb, Paul's squad person teased remaining astatine heavyweight.
Shock fights against Anthony Joshua, 35, and Daniel Dubois, 27, person even been mentioned by the American's camp.
But Demetriades said: "Look, if KSI wanted to combat immoderate of these guys, he'd get that combat arsenic well. He's conscionable not that benignant of guy.
"He's not delusional oregon disrespectfully trying to money-grab, he's not that kind. It's not his character.
"JJ wants investigating fights that are hard, that the public, that the radical privation to spot that helium wants to beryllium portion of.
"It's similar getting 2 apical chefs to combat each other, I mean, yea it mightiness beryllium enjoyable but I'd alternatively devour their food.
"I don't needfully deliberation that, Jake Paul calling retired Daniel Dubois is I mean, it'd beryllium amusive to ticker but I don't cognize - possibly radical would wage to spot it, I wouldn't.
"It's conscionable entertainment. I conjecture we're taking the connection sports retired of it and we're utilizing the connection amusement more. So if we're breaching into that department, past just enough.
"But ultimately, I deliberation the fans privation large nights, brainsick fights, Misfits-style fights with crossover boxers and athletes and things that truly benignant of bedewed the appetite."