Taylor hopes that the brief altercation with Danis hopefully leads to some change. asking him not to attend, which he understood and accepted. Taylor says that the incident led to the promoters of the boxing event - which featured former UFC heavyweight Greg Hardy defeating Hasim Rahman Jr. The situation with Taylor isn’t the first time Danis was involved in an altercation of some sort this month as after UFC 281 in New York, he had words with Nate Diaz, which led to one of the members of Danis’ group to get slapped in the face. Ben Askren because “we know what outcome is going to happen.”
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It’s not like I stepped into it where he caught the full whip.”ĭanis, who is under contract with Bellator, is scheduled to return to combat action to face KSI at the Misfits Boxing event in January - a fight Taylor compares to Jake Paul vs. “I caught him at the end of the overhand right, like the very end of it. “I caught him like 30 percent,” Taylor said. While it looked to have landed with force, Taylor says it didn’t land with full impact. The punch looked to have clean from Taylor, sending Danis back a few steps into a truck parked in the lot. I’ve got kids coming to me saying, ‘Thank you for your service.’ What? I’ve never served in the military. Let’s go have a talk and drink some coffee.’ But instead, I said f*** that, I’m going to hit you with an overhand right, buddy. I could’ve sat down and had a talk with him, ‘Hey Dillon, come sit down with me. Don’t resort to violence because that’s not always the way to resort to things.
“But, we should never resort to violence, ladies and gentlemen. “Without that truck being there, he would’ve fell.
“I gave him a little push with my left hand, he tried to snap back at me with a quick jab, I threw my little left jab, he tried to hit me, and that’s when I popped him with an overhand right and he stumbled - 50 yards back, baby. Deji boxing event - a fight that MMA Fighting scored 40-36 for Taylor against Jack Fincham.Īfter watching how Danis was acting at the weigh-in, and creating a skirmish with KSI, Taylor had enough. Taylor has competed in the squared circle three times in 2022, going 1-1 and fighting to a no decision under the exhibition rules at the recent Floyd Mayweather vs. You want to fight YouTubers and boxers, fight me. Don’t come to an event, try and be a bully, push reporters, because now I’m going to call you out. Nobody, for years, has said or done anything to Dillon, and he’s gotten away with it for so many years doing it to Logan Paul, Jake Paul, to Khabib, to all of these, and he got away with it. “I took that in my hands to say something. You don’t see Jon Jones trying to bully YouTubers. It’s called a YouTube event, don’t come over trying to be a bully. Like, man, don’t come to a YouTube event trying to be a bully to other fighters, especially YouTubers who have no legitimate background in fighting. “So he comes in to do his thing with KSI, flips his hat, or smacks him in the face, throws coffee and just runs off. But he was just acting tough, acting he like he can’t even be touched because, ‘I’m this jiu-jitsu world champion, nobody’s going to fight me.’ “He’s picking on reporters, over acting tough with his MMA buddies, or whoever the hell he’s with.
“Dillon Danis, just coming in, he was just being a bully,” Taylor told MMA Fighting. In an interview with MMA Fighting, Taylor explained why he made the decision to confront Danis and revealed the jiu-jitsu standout was not just messing with the social media and influencer boxers, but with reporters covering the event as well. Shortly thereafter, video emerged of Taylor walking out to the parking lot to challenge Danis to a fight and after breaking through a group trying to separate the two, Taylor landed a viral right hand to the face of Danis.
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MMA fighter and boxer Anthony Taylor made headlines after punching Dillon Danis in the face in a parking lot following the Misfits Boxing x DAZN Series 003 weigh-ins this past Friday in Austin, Texas.ĭanis first got into it with KSI during an impromptu staredown and things got wild with contact being made and beverages being thrown before it was separated.
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