Tommy Fury has labelled influencer KSI ‘classless’ after the YouTuber spat gum at his dad John Fury. Boxer Tommy, 24, is taking on KSI in a fight in Manchester on Saturday, 14 October – aiming to follow up on his victory over Jake Paul – another YouTube influencer.Tommy and KSI took part in a promotional open workout on Wednesday night ahead of this weekend's showdown but tensions between the two camps spilled over as the influencer traded insults with Tommy’s dad.
John Fury threw a plastic bottle at KSI, who stood on a balcony above. KSI responded by spitting his gum down at John below.
Tommy addressed the incident in a video posted on his brother Tyson Fury’s Furocity YouTube channel on Thursday. He questioned KSI’s status as a role model and described the spitting incident as a ‘scruffy thing to do’.
Tommy said: "These YouTubers have got loads of kids that look up to them, admire them, and think they're role models. Yet you've got KSI spitting at a man who's twice his age. “You should respect your elders, but it shows how the world's going when kids are looking up to people like that, spitting over a balcony." "If that had landed on his forehead, everyone would have been going down until my dad got to KSI, no-one could stop him, he'd have hit everyone in his path, that would have been awful.
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