Dillon Danis was on the receiving end of a right hand from Jake Paul's sparring martner Anthony Taylor after attacking KSI at Friday's Misfits Boxing weigh-in.
The Bellator welterweight and friend of Conor McGregor was in Austin, Texas amid reports that he may be the YouTube star's next opponent, with an announcement due on Saturday. And he brought his trolling to the real world when during the weigh-ins for the weekend's event he threw a punch at KSI during a staredown between the pair, leading to carnage at the fighter hotel.
Danis was quickly escorted out of the conference room where the weigh-ins were taking place, but was followed by fellow loudmouth fighter Anthony Taylor. The ex-Bellator lightweight, who recently dominated Love Island's Jack Fincham in a boxing exhibition, goaded Danis and ultimately threw a right hand which wobbled the Bellator star, reports The Mirror.
Warning: Strong language
When teammates attempted to intervene, Taylor got into with another person outside of the Embassy Suites in Austin. The California native, who is a teammate of Paul's, has long been pushing for a fight of his own with KSI, but felt that Danis crossed the line during their staredown.
"I said n***** run that s***," Taylor told Mirror Fighting seconds after the incident. "You want to fight, fight me! N***** was talking s*** so I ran up on him. He squared up, overhand right the n***** and he fell right into the truck! His boy came up, overhand right that n*****.
"Don't come over here thinking you'll brawl with your MMA fighters. You f*** with KSI, you f*** with me because that's the guy I fight for. Now you're going to f*** with a real MMA fighter, you're going to get slept by a real n***** like me from the town, bro. We don't play that, bro. Don't come over here, bro, n***** I'm a MMA fighter too!"
Promoter Kalle Sauerland joked that more of Danis' coffee, which he threw at KSI, landed on him than the YouTuber, telling Mirror Fighting that the Brit was "basically assaulted". "We had just finished the weigh-in and my focus was on getting the weights signed off by the commission when suddenly I saw them doing the post-fight talk with DAZN.
"Danis entered the room, I didn't pay too much attention. Then I saw him step up on the stage and I moved over, there was a punch thrown, sort of a glancing punch and a coffee thrown that ended up mostly over me, actually so I'll be sending him my dry cleaning bill.
"But jokes aside, we're used to it heating up but you aren't used to it heating up outside the event, Danis wanted to make his point, JJ reacted very well given that he was basically assaulted on the stage and it's all heated up, I see it's gone viral. I heard Anthony Taylor got involved outside the hotel, he's getting involved in anything and everything at the moment."
Headline fighter Deen The Great joked that Danis looked like he was doing the infamous 'Bobby Shmurda' dance, before Hasim Rahman Jr, who faces Greg Hardy in the co-main event, confirmed that he had seen the incident. "I was right there," he told Mirror Fighting.
Danis hasn't fought in the MMA cage since 2019, and is currently 2-0 as a professional. He has long-standing feuds with KSI as well as the Paul brothers Jake and Logan, and is best known for being a training partner and close confidant of UFC legend McGregor since the pair teamed up in 2016.
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