Youtuber Logan Paul who posted video of corpse in Japan set for vlogger boxing showdown in Manchester

Logan Paul, the vlogger who sparked outrage after filming a video showing the body of a suicide victim in Japan, is set to fight a fellow Youtuber in the UK.

The fight with KSI will take place at Manchester Arena on August 25 with another fight set to take place in the US as part of the deal.

KSI, real name Olajide Olatunji hails from Watford and has more than 18 million followers on Youtube compared with Logan Paul’s 17 million subscribers.

He has already fought Youtuber Joe Weller at the Copper Box arena in London last month. Over 20 million people tuned in to watch the fight.

The Brit is currently being trained by Floyd Mayweather Snr.

Paul confirmed on his Twitter page that he was preparing for the fight.

There has been some speculation for a while that the pair would fight after they shared words with each other over social media.

Paul's younger brother and KSI's younger brother are set to fight each other on the same day.

Paul was heavily criticised after he posted a video featuring the body of a suicide victim in Japan’s suicide forest.

The video was later removed and he apologised to his fans.

YouTube announced that they would be removing him from their monetisation plan. He was later reinstated however he is unable to receive Google Preferred ads, the premium ad platform used by the website’s top creators.

His content has also been removed from the front page of Youtube and his planned Paul’s Youtube Red series was put on hold by the company.

According to the website Social Blade, which estimates influencers' earnings from their online statistics, Paul may have earned anything from £28,000 to £450,000 from ad revenue on YouTube in February alone, despite taking a break.