The winner for many contentious MMA interview of 2022 goes to Dillon Danis and Ariel Helwani, who met in December to debate Danis’ return to fight sports activities on January 14th, 2023. Curiously sufficient, Dillon gained’t be competing in MMA the place his spectacular jiu jitsu pedigree would come into play. As a substitute he’ll be boxing YouTuber KSI as a part of MF & DAZN: X Collection 004.
However don’t fear, MMA followers. We’ll get our probability to see Danis again in a cage if all goes properly in two weeks. In between all of the insults and jibes from The MMA Hour interview (watch it beneath), Danis shared his plans for a particularly busy 2023.
“I’ll attempt to do 4, possibly extra [fights],” Danis declared. “Once I come again to MMA, I’m going to run by them quick, two quick submissions. I’ve two extra fights left with Bellator, so that you by no means know what is going to occur.”
We definitely don’t know the way his struggle with KSI will go as Danis returns from a horrific knee damage that has stored him out of competitors since mid-2019.
“I had the knee surgical procedure at HSS [Hospital for Special Surgery], which is meant to be one of the best,” he defined (by way of MMA Preventing). “It ended up failing. My graft failed, fully failed. So I needed to get one other surgical procedure, which is one other yr. So mainly two surgical procedures inside a yr, they stated it’s like being in two automobile accidents. So my knee was like fully f—ed.”
“So I had the surgical procedure that failed, that they had to make use of a special graft, they did a complete factor, inside a yr. So my knee was f—ed. It’s not like I don’t wish to struggle. That’s the stupidest factor ever. Why wouldn’t I wish to struggle?”
Anybody following Danis on social media may see the man was caught in a full ankle-to-crotch forged endlessly, and it’s an enormous query mark as to how agile on the ft the jiu jitsu champion will likely be after that. He wasn’t precisely slick together with his fingers to start with, primarily based on his two Bellator fights (which he nonetheless gained by first spherical submission, to be truthful).
Not that KSI is coming in to his fourth professional boxing struggle with Golden Gloves credentials or something. However now we have seen footage of him hitting pads correctly. That’s the extent of intruige this struggle on January 14th brings: who’s the much less horrible striker?
Individuals with extra money than sense might pay within the hopes of seeing KSI or Danis get knocked out, and that’s what now we have on our imaginative and prescient board too. However superstar boxing has risen up to now too, and fallen again as soon as folks notice unskilled strikers aren’t that enjoyable to look at, and their bouts often finish in mediocre selections.
How do you see KSI vs. Dillon Danis going, Maniacs? And will Danis win, what do you wish to see him do subsequent?
