Dillon Danis is skeptical his boxing match with KSI happens.
Danis is scheduled to take on YouTuber and part-time boxer KSI at MF & DAZN: X Series 004 at the OVO Arena, Wembley in London on Jan. 14. The event airs on DAZN pay-per-view.
Speaking to Chael Sonnen, Danis said certain demands have him thinking that the fight might not even happen. Danis recently skipped a press conference in London to promote their matchup.
“I truly think that they’re in over their heads,” Danis said. “I feel like they’re just trying to handicap me, and I won’t go into these fights with these guys handicapped. Usually I really don’t care but it seems there’s a lot of fishy things going on and it’s not on my side. I’m ready to go.”
He continued, “So the fights at 177. They want me to be four pounds heavier the day of the fight by 4 p.m. So the fights at 7 or 8 p.m and they want me to weigh in at 4 p.m the day of the fight only four pounds heavier or five pounds, something stupid. Every pound that I don’t make the weight on the second day I get a penalty which is very heavy for each pound. If I make weight the day before, why do I have to make weight again the day of the fight?”
If the fight does fall through, Danis, who’s still under contract with Bellator, will look to return to MMA. The 29-year-old hasn’t competed since submitting Max Humphrey in June 2019 due to complications with knee surgery.
“It’s a lot of money to beat up a guy that doesn’t know how to fight, but I feel like this fight won’t happen,” Danis said. “I think they’re starting to get scared… they’re trying to make weird things in the contract two weeks before. I feel like they’re looking for a way out and if it does happen like that, I don’t wait for nobody. I would jump on that Bellator card, I thinks it’s March 2 or 3.”
