KSI's promoter has offered to remove the hydration clause from Dillon Danis' contract just over two weeks out from his fight against the YouTuber.
Danis is scheduled to make his boxing debut in a six-round fight against KSI on January 14 at the OVO Arena Wembley. The Bellator MMA star recently agreed with a clause in his contract that requires him to weigh in again on fight day after cutting down to get to the contracted weight the day before.
"I feel like this fight won't happen," Danis told Chael Sonnen. "I feel like they're starting to get scared, I think they saw clips or people like you saying I was going to win. They're trying to make weird things in the contract now two weeks before, I feel like they're looking for a way out."
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Mams Taylor, KSI's manager and Misfits Boxing boss, has since responded to Danis' claim by insisting the rehydration clause was not recently added to his contract. In an effort to keep the fight on, Taylor has offered to remove the rehydration clause as he tweeted to Danis: "Ok how’s this…even though you signed and agreed to the contract 2 months ago…. We will take out the rehydration clause entirely so you have no excuses left to back out now. Nowhere to run."
Taylor claimed that Danis weighed over 200lb last month and that KSI would be willing to fight the Brazilian jiu-jitsu champion even if he was a similar weight on fight night. The manager/promoter also took aim at KSI's rival Jake Paul for cancelling his fight against Hasim Rahman Jr over a weight dispute.
"JJ will fight Danis who was well over 200 lbs in Austin, Texas," Taylor wrote. "No rehydration clause! Unlike someone who cancelled their fight for the same reason. Suck that 'dweeb'." Paul was scheduled to fight Rahman Jr in August, but the fight was cancelled at the last minute when Rahman revealed he would be unable to make the 205lb weight limit.
Danis revealed the fine details of his rehydration clause whilst talking with Sonnen, claiming he would be "heavily fined" per pound he is overweight on fight day. "The fight is at 177lb. They want me to be four pounds heavier the day of the fight by 4 p.m," he said.
"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?”
