Bellator star and jiu-jitsu phenomenon Dillon Danis looked like a superstar in the making a few years ago. Since then, however, he has been sidelined, spending more time in tabloid headlines for his extracurricular altercations than in the ring. Now, he’s set to fight YouTuber KSI in the boxing ring, and claims that the knee injury that kept him out of competition is gone. He believes we’ll be seeing a lot more of Dillon Danis in 2023.
“I had a bad knee injury. I had the knee surgery at HSS [Hospital for Special Surgery], which is supposed to be the best. It ended up failing. My graft failed, completely failed. So I had to get another surgery, which is another year. So basically two surgeries within a year, they said it’s like being in two car accidents. So my knee was like completely f******. So I had the surgery that failed, they had to use a different graft, they did a whole thing, within a year. So my knee was f*****. It’s not like I don’t want to fight. That’s the stupidest thing ever. Why wouldn’t I want to fight?
Dillon Danis Blames Knee Injury For Multi-Year Hiatus
I’m still the same person. I’m still going to choke everybody out. It’s easy.” Danis was supposedly ready to return sooner, but a botched deal with Logan Paul got in the way. “I wanted to [return sooner].
I was getting ready for my comeback and then they were like, ‘OK, you want to do Logan, then guaranteed Jake for a crazy amount of money?’ I said f*** yeah, why not? Then they wanted me to wait for [Logan]. He’s a scumbag, to be honest. He didn’t update me on the fight and tell me he was doing the wrestling and stuff, and I wasted so much time because I was like, ‘I’m going to fight Logan.’ He just kind of had me waiting and I could have come back already. That was the only thing that pissed me off about him.”
As for a return to MMA, Danis is promising four or more fights this year. “I’ll try to do four, maybe more. When I come back to MMA, I’m going to run through them fast, two fast submissions. I have two more fights left with Bellator, so you never know what will happen.”
Do you think we’ll finally see more of Dillon Danis this year, or is his career over? Let us know in the comments.
