YOUTUBE boxing sensation KSI is building towards a grudge fight with arch nemesis Jake Paul.
The social media, rap and crossover fighting star returned to the ring in August, having not boxed since beat Paul’s brother Logan in 2019.
And he made up for the three-year layoff by winning TWICE on the same night, stopping musician Swarmz and boxer Luis Alcaraz Pineda.
Meanwhile Paul, 25, recently improved to 6-0 by beating UFC legend Anderson Silva, 47, in his biggest win to date.
KSI, 29, has vowed to settle the score with the American once and for all in the future, but the time is not yet right.
Instead, his strength and conditioning coach Leon Wills believes they are up to three fights away from the judgment day.
Wills told SunSport: “Jake is the pinnacle, right?
“So his fights need to build up to fighting Jake, he needs to fight people that are credible enough to learn from and you get something out of.
“I think he’s got about two or three fights until he fights Jake, so he needs to climb the ladder. He’s got to climb his way up the ladder.”
KSI returns on January 14 in the US, desperate to up his opposition after Swarmz, 25, and so-called professional Pineda, 23, offered little.
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And it is a pair of Paul’s boxing rivals who Wills believes could offer KSI the perfect stepping stone.
He said: “I think a Tommy Fury would be nice, it’s a challenge.
“KSI is also training with the London Shootfighters gym, so it depends what his coaches are teaching him whether he’d be ready for Tommy.
“Woodley is a good one but the thing is, he’d have to knock him out better than Jake knocked him out and that’s the issue.
“It’s motivation but then he might try too hard and that’s the thing, when KSI tries to hard he doesn’t really get the knockout.
“If he’s more relaxed and fluid in there, he’ll get the knockout easy.”
Paul knocked out Woodley, 40, in round six of their rematch having beaten the ex-UFC champion on points previously.
And he also bettered UFC icon Silva over the eight-round distance in. showcase of his development.
Both Paul and KSI vowed sign off their bitter feud with a brutal KO, ending the argument once and for all.
But coach Wills admitted it will be a battle of brains not brawn when they finally put it all on the line.
He said: “That fight is gonna be about who can box who, who can have the intelligence. It’s going to be about boxing IQ, not brute force.
“So whoever is going to be working behind the jab and setting up traps, that will be the winner.
“They’re both gonna be fit, they’re both gonna be fit, they have a lot to lose, it’s whoever outsmarts each other and fights their fight.”
