YouTuber KSI was meant to welcome Dillon Danis back to combat sports with a boxing match this Saturday, but Danis pulled out at the last minute. There was plenty of back and forth between the pair in the buildup to the fight, and KSI fully expected Danis to make good on his word and show up to the fight. KSI appeared on a recent episode of The MMA Hour to discuss why be believes “El Jefe” chose not to show up.
“I actually thought he was going to show up. 100 percent. Him being there made me go, OK, he’s actually serious. He’s going on your show, he wants to actually fight, he looks like he’s somewhat prepared. Maybe he’s rambling on here or there, but he looked like he was serious. So I was like, ‘alright, cool,’ and from what my manager’s been telling me, from what people have been telling me, he’s actually down.
KSI on Why “Scared” Danis Pulled Out of Boxing Match
I did hear whispers on Twitter, and a few comments here or there like, ‘He’s not going to show up. He’s not going to fight.’ But I was like, ‘No, man.’ Especially for the amount of money he was going to be making. There’s no way he’s going to pull out. Especially with everything he said, saying I’m not a real fighter, I’m an idiot, I’m stupid, this and that, I can’t box, he’s going to knock me out. There’s no way he can come through with this much smoke and then pull out. And then he did.”
KSI believes that Danis was simply scared of how seriously the YouTube personality was taking the bout. “I think he was scared. I think he probably saw videos of how I was training and how prepared I was, and how serious I was taking this. Since the first Logan fight, I have told myself I will always take every boxing fight seriously.
I will fight as if I’m fighting Mike Tyson, or I’m fighting the best of the best, because after I beat Joe Weller all those years ago, I got super complacent. I was like, ‘Oh, I’m sick. I’m awesome. I don’t even need to train. I trained super hard and I got to this level, and I was able to beat Joe Weller. Alright, cool. Let me fight Logan Paul, who hasn’t done any boxing. I don’t need to train as hard. This should be a walk in the park.’
Go in the ring and he’s massive. Jab is just beating me, slapping me up. And I’m there like, ‘Oh, I’m actually not as sick as I thought I was.’ Then I had to dig deep, get the dog in me to scrape a draw. Then with the second fight I put my all into it to make sure I got a win.”
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