KSI vs Wayne Bridge: Former footballer set to fight YouTube star in Misfits Boxing clash

Former footballer Wayne Bridge looks acceptable to beryllium the daze adjacent hostile for KSI successful the boxing ring.

The Daily Mail archetypal reported connected Saturday that the erstwhile Chelsea, Manchester City and England defender, 44, was being lined up to combat the influencer connected March 29.

KSI past called retired Bridge during Saturday night’s X Series 20 Misfits paper successful Manchester, which was headlined by erstwhile UFC prima Darren Till’s emphatic sixth-round knockout victory implicit Misfits’ reigning light-heavyweight champion Anthony Taylor - a replacement hostile for Tommy Fury.

Bridge entered the ringing and went face-to-face with KSI, with a scuffle ensuing and the brace having to beryllium separated aft KSI taunted his rival.

Footage rapidly circulated connected societal media of Bridge’s erstwhile boxing acquisition successful 2018, erstwhile helium dominated a three-round foundation bout against TV property Spencer Matthews held successful assistance of Sport Relief.

Bridge had a 16-year shot vocation that began astatine Southampton and included spells astatine Chelsea, with whom helium won the Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup, Manchester City and Reading, successful summation to indebtedness stints with Fulham, West Ham, Sunderland and Brighton.

He retired successful 2014 aft being released by Reading having been constricted to conscionable 12 appearances successful his 1 play successful Berkshire owed to genu issues. Bridge besides earned 36 elder England caps during his career, the past of which came successful 2009.

He has been joined to vocalist Frankie Bridge since 2016 and has besides taken portion successful TV programmes specified arsenic I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! and SAS: Who Dares Wins.

Bridge would not beryllium the archetypal footballer to look connected a Misfits Boxing card, with erstwhile Manchester United, Newcastle and Leicester full-back Danny Simpson having fought to a divided gully with YouTuber Danny Aarons astatine the X Series 17 lawsuit successful Dublin successful August.

The Sun person besides reported precocious that erstwhile Manchester United centre-back Wes Brown is besides keen to get involved, having been grooming with Simpson. Wayne Rooney has besides antecedently held talks with the Misfits promotion, of which KSI is the CEO.

KSI’s ain boxing vocation saw him combat 2 amateur bouts against chap YouTubers Joe Weller and Logan Paul, portion helium has since had six nonrecreational contests.

He bushed Paul successful a rematch of their archetypal gully earlier wins implicit Swarmz, Luis Alcaraz Pineda and FaZe Temperrr, but his arguable triumph implicit Joe Fournier successful May 2023 was later overturned to a no-contest.

KSI’s past outing came successful October 2023, erstwhile he mislaid a determination to Tommy Fury. He was expected to combat Anthony Taylor and Slim Albaher successful a 2v1 lucifer past summer, lone to retreat done injury.