Love Island’s Tommy Fury promises KSI 'early night' ahead of much-awaited boxing match
ok.co.ukLove Island star Tommy Fury promised an “early night” in his showdown against internet star KSI at a chaotic press conference that saw the pair sling insults at one another while separated by perspex glass inside a cage.
Animosity has steadily been building between Tommy and KSI, who enraged the TV star when he spat at his father in the cage, and the pair are relative novices in boxing but the fame they have found outside the ropes means their fight this Saturday is heavily anticipated.
While they traded barbs laced with profanity as they came head-to-head 48 hours before their contest at a sold-out Manchester AO Arena, it was Tommy’s outspoken father John who loomed large over proceedings.
John Fury Sr, who appears in his son Tyson Fury’s Netflix series At Home With The Furys, stepped into a metal cage when invited to and threw punches at the transparent partition separating him from KSI, who earlier dodged a bottle thrown from a side of the stage.This weekend’s event is not sanctioned by the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) – but Tommy is adamant him being steeped in the sport in contrast to his rival will become clear when they settle their differences in the ring.
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