ERLING HAALAND almost scuppered KSI's grudge match with Tommy Fury, according to the YouTuber.
The social media sensation clashes with the former Love Islander in a Manchester melee on Saturday night.
But his recent collab video with new Prime athlete Haaland almost laid waste to his showdown with Fury, the younger brother of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson.
KSI - real name Olajide Olatunji - almost had his nose battered by the Norwegian man-mountain while filming some content with him.
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Haaland and Prime co-founder Logan Paul recently tried to save a number of penalties from the Manchester City hitman.
And some of the 23-year-old's strikes came dangerously close to smacking KSI in the face and potentially derailing his fight with Fury.
KSI recalled the meet-up during an appearance on That Peter Crouch Podcast, saying: "Oh my God. So I was in goal for it.
"Bro, I was s***ting myself because he knows how to hit hard. It's different.
"Like you know when you're with your mates and they kick the ball? It can be hard, but it's not like professional level.
"Haaland was there just trying to hit me with a volley, at professional level, while I'm in goal.
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"And I'm there like, 'Bro, I've got a fight like in a month. Are you mad? What are you doing?' I'm just trying to get out of the way."
KSI enters his showdown with Fury on the back of a no contest with self-proclaimed millionaire Joe Fournier.
The 30-year-old is a huge underdog going into the fight but is adamant he'll stop Fury inside four rounds.
He said: "I'm feeling good, feeling confident and feeling ready.
"I'm going to just stand there and fight him, Jake ran away from Tommy's combinations; I'm not running away, I'm standing in the middle of the ring and I'm fighting him.
"I've watched [Fury and Paul's fight] many times, every angle on slo-mo, every stance, every little bit of detail that I need to know in order to beat Tommy Fury.
"Tommy has got some certain combinations that he likes doing that he's pretty good at and we're looking out for that.
"Obviously he's a big guy that likes to clinch so we're going to be watching that and we're going to fight him.
"Just go in there and fight, go crazy, it's simple. I'm going to test that chin and I'm going to show him that my power is different to Jake Paul."
