2022 in Misfits Boxing
2022 in Misfits Boxing was the inaugural year in the history of Misfits Boxing, a crossover boxing promotion founded by English YouTuber KSI and run by Mams Taylor, Kalle Sauerland, and Nisse Sauerland. Misfits Boxing held 3 events in 2022.
MF & DAZN: X Series 001
MF & DAZN: X Series 001, billed as 2 Fights 1 Night, was an MF–professional boxing event which featured KSI vs Luis Alcaraz Pineda, a cruiserweight match contested between English internet personality KSI and Mexican professional boxer Luis Alcaraz Pineda for the inaugural MFB cruiserweight title. The event took place at The O2 Arena in London on 27 August 2022. KSI defeated Pineda via knockout in the third round. The event reportedly sold 445,500 pay-per-view buys.On the undercard, KSI also fought English rapper Swarmz as the opening bout as originally, KSI was set to face American YouTuber Alex Wassabi, who withdrew due to sustaining a concussion.
Background
On 5 May 2022, KSI announced on his socials his return to the ring after his 2 year hiatus for 27 August. Along with this announcement came the reveal of Misfits Boxing, a subsidiary promotion of Wasserman focusing on crossover boxing. On 1 July, DAZN accidentally leaked that KSI's opponent would be Alex Wassabi, as well as revealing Deji vs Fousey and FaZe Temperrr vs Blueface. On 15 July, KSI vs Wassabi was officially announced for The O2 Arena in London. However on 7 August Wassabi withdrew from the bout due to sustaining a concussion. The following day it was announced that Swarmz would be the replacement opponent.On 17 August, following the online criticism KSI announced that he would be fighting twice, with his second opponent being Bulgarian professional boxer Ivan Nikolov. However, Nikolov was removed from the event due to his tattoos revealing he is a white supremacist and Neo-Nazi. Mexican professional boxer Luis Alcaraz Pineda was announced as the replacement opponent.