Ludwig Chessboxing 2022

Overview

Ludwig Chessboxing 2022 refers to the Mogul Chessboxing event that took place on December 11th, 2022, at the Galen Center in Los Angeles, which was created by YouTuber Ludwig. The influencer boxing event featured nine fights in which the competitors, all social media influencers or streamers, would alternate between two-minute rounds of chess with 90-second rounds of boxing, with the person who is TKO'd, KO'd or checkmated being declared the loser of both.

Background

On September 23rd, 2022, YouTuber Ludwig revealed his next live event, a "chessboxing" competition featuring several streamers who haven't been seen in a physical showcase like this before. The reveal was later posted to his clips channel,^[1] where it went on to get over 240,000 views in three months (shown below).

Mogul Chessboxing Event

The boxing-chess crossover event took place on December 11th, 2022, at the Galen Center in Los Angeles with the entire event streamed on Ludwig's YouTube^[1] channel, which instantly became a VOD after the end of the stream. The video was then viewed over 3 million times during the live portion and afterward in just under 20 hours (shown below).

Before the chessboxing portion had commenced, Ludwig hosted a "Smashboxing" championship beforehand, during which competitors played Super Smash Brothers with boxing taking place between rounds. The solo VOD of this event received over 200,000 views in roughly 20 hours since being posted separately from the main event's video (shown below).

Event Results

2Saint vs. Spud

2Saint beat Spud via TKO in the second round of boxing (shown below).

Fiction vs. KJH

Fiction beat KJH in the game of Super Smash Bros. Melee in the fifth round (shown below).

Stanz vs. BoxBox

BoxBox won over Stanz after Stanz threw in the towel due to a shoulder injury in the third round (shown below).

OvertFlow vs. Abroad In Japan

Abroad in Japan became the first competitor to win via chess against Overtflow in the sixth round (shown below).

Toph vs. Hugs

Hugs defeated Toph in the second round via TKO (shown below).

Aman vs. Lawrence

Crowd- and fan-favorite Aman did not disappoint with a speedy TKO of Lawrence in round two (shown below).

Andrea Botez vs. Dina

Andrea Botez fell to Dina's chess moves in the sixth round (shown below).

Cherdleys vs. Myth

The 80-percent crowd-predicted favorite Myth defeated Cherdleys through chess in the sixth round (shown below).

DisguisedToast vs. PointCrow

In the final match, DisguisedToast defeated Pointcrow via checkmate in the sixth round (shown below).

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