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KSI is just not pleased with a few of the current selections he made.
The YouTube star regrets he canceled an agreed-upon struggle with former UFC champion Tyron Woodley to take a bout in opposition to Dillon Danis – which gained’t occur. A few month after the matchup’s announcement, Danis withdrew.
Misfits Boxing’s Mams Taylor, who’s a part of KSI’s administration group, stated Danis withdrew from the struggle as a result of he wasn’t correctly ready.
KSI, who faces FaZe Temperrr on Jan. 14, was shocked Danis pulled out from the struggle.
“I did hear whispers, particularly on Twitter and some feedback right here and there, being like, ‘He’s not going to indicate up. He’s not going to indicate up. He’s not going to indicate up. He’s not going to struggle. He’s not going to struggle,’” KSI stated in an interview with “The MMA Hour” on Monday. “However I used to be identical to, ‘No, man, particularly with the amount of cash that he was going to be getting.’ I used to be like, ‘There’s no approach he’s simply going to tug out, particularly with every thing he stated. … There’s no approach he can include this a lot smoke after which pull out.’ After which he did.”
KSI stated he “one hundred pc” regrets not reserving Woodley. He initially thought the struggle in opposition to Danis can be larger.
“I used to be going to be combating (Tyron) Woodley and Danis was going to struggle Logan Paul,” KSI stated. “After which, yeah, Logan Paul bought injured. The finances bought shorter of DAZN, after which we had been like, ‘Oh, OK.’
“Tyron Woodley was having somewhat back-and-forth with the rehydration clause and the burden, so we had been identical to, ‘Effectively, we bought Danis right here, who’s free and is hungry and has been telling us he needs to struggle.’ He was telling our supervisor, ‘I need to struggle. I need to struggle.’ So I used to be like, ‘OK, guess.’ Dillon Danis needs it. He’s hungry for it, and he’s going to be entertaining.
“I do know between Danis and Tyron Woodley I’m going to get extra leisure from Danis as a result of he’s simply wild-and-weird silly. He gravitates eyes in the direction of it and makes it a giant spectacle. Additionally, to get the MMA group into watching it. It was type of a sensible play. And I do know I’d simply knock him out anyway.”
When requested if KSI would take into account revisiting the matchup sooner or later, KSI stated there’s no probability and can by no means work with Danis once more.
“No, it’s performed,” KSI stated. “F*ck him. F*ck Dillon. I hope everybody forgets about him, and he disappears into irrelevancy.”
