Logan Paul has confirmed his fight with Dillon Danis is “very much’ still on, despite appearing to be cut during a chaotic press conference.
The build-up to Saturday night’s bout, which is the chief support to KSI vs Tommy Fury, has been dominated by personal attacks on social media, with Paul’s fiancee Nina Agdal filing a lawsuit against Danis.
The pair went head-to-head in Manchester on Thursday for the final press conference, where they continued to goad each other throw around insults.
As they stood up, Paul threw a bottle at Danis, who responded by launcing a microphone at his face from a couple of feet away. Paul had his head in his hands as he was quickly escorted off stage, the face-off abandoned, with footage later emerging that showed blood coming from the side of his face.
The moment Dillon Danis cut Logan Paul’s face with his microphone 😬 pic.twitter.com/WFuAQBzqud
— Happy Punch (@HappyPunch) October 12, 2023
That led to speculation the bout could be off, but Paul took to social media to put that to bed.
He tweeted: “Dillon can’t escape me. The fight is very much happening, the stakes just got higher.”
It was similarly chaotic when KSI and Fury then took to the stage, though as ever it was Fury’s father John who was keen to put himself firmly at the centre of things.
Having hurled abuse at KSI from the side of the stage during the press conference, John then joined his on in the cage where the face-off took place, bizarrely headbutting and punching the partition as KSI watched on from the other side.
“If anyone in here doesn’t know what’s going to happen, they need a new brain,” Fury said.
“There’s no way this man can live with me. I’m in the crossover world of boxing, it is what it is. It’s a circus act, we’ve seen that all week.
“I promise you it’s going to be an early night. I’m going to do to KSI what should have been done to Jake Paul. I’m coming here to make a statement - this will be over inside three rounds.”
