- Logan Paul was scheduled to face Dillon Danis in Manchester on Saturday
- However, Danis accused his opponent of breaking rules surrounding the weigh-in
- He claimed he was now going to take on Paul’s younger brother Jake instead
Dillon Danis has claimed he will now fight Jake Paul after saying his hotly-anticipated fight with Logan Paul should be cancelled, accusing his opponent of breaking the rules surrounding their weigh-ins.
The MMA fighter and Youtuber turned boxer headlined the highly anticipated night of boxing in Manchester on Saturday alongside KSI and Tommy Fury.
The lead-up to the fight was shrouded in controversy with Danis launching a staggering campaign of personal attacks on Paul, then hitting him in the face with a microphone during their final press conference.
However, the fight appears to be up in the air after Danis launched a series of social media posts in which he insisted that Paul had broken regulations on their match before tweeting that he would face Jake instead.
Danis said in response to an earlier trash talk from Paul: ‘You lost weight.’
Danis claims he will now fight Jake Paul on Saturday night instead of Logan
Dillon Danis has claimed his hotly-anticipated fight with Logan Paul should be canceled after accusing his opponent of breaking the rules of their weigh-in.
He insisted his nemesis Paul had missed the 11am deadline to complete his weigh-in
Paul then responded with a video of him on the scales coming in at 194.3lb, which caught the ire of his opponent who said: ‘He claims he made weight but it doesn’t count. The rules are the rules.
‘If he wants to be considered a genuine boxer, he has to follow the 11 hour deadline. Look at the time he posted. It’s not fair; I had to follow the rules, and he is no exception.’
He continued in another post: ‘The commission’s rules state that weigh-in is between 10 and 11. If you miss the 11 hour deadline, you’ve missed weight. I weighed in at 10:15, but Logan still hadn’t.
“The commission said that if he doesn’t show up by the 11:00 deadline, the fight is off. He missed the weight but then called misfits and changed the rules to give himself an extra hour.
‘We have to be on a level playing field, he shouldn’t get special treatment. He already has more juice than Tropicana. He missed the weight, plain and simple. They try to hinder me as much as possible.’
Danis then added: ‘It’s not complaining. What’s fair is fair. No drug tests, breaking the weigh-in rules – I ain’t nobody’s b****. I run the show. F***Logan Paul.
‘This fake commission is paid by KSI and Misfits. They do whatever they say to get paid. This whole thing is a load of bulls***.’
He tweeted a fight poster of him versus Jake Paul and claimed that he would instead fight the younger sibling of his original opponent. It remains to be seen whether that will be the case, but Jake Paul wrote: ‘I have a surprise for mr. KSI.’
Danis launched a tirade of posts on social media detailing what Paul had done wrong
However, Paul proved himself on the scales, with the WWE star coming in at 194.3 pounds
Meanwhile, ahead of the fight, rapper Drake bet £696,000 on Paul to prevail against Danis, with the ‘One Dance’ star potentially pocketing around £1.1million if successful.
However, this again drew the ire of Danis who hacked the forecast when he written on X, formerly Twitter: “850 on my head is disrespect.”
Elsewhere, Danis’ physical outburst against Paul on Thursday sparked fears that the WWE star could be forced to withdraw from the bout. The pair engaged in a verbal row before Danis connected cleanly on Paul’s forehead with the mic.
Paul was immediately taken off the stage, with his head in his hands, and Danis took to social media shortly after the incident to share a photo of blood on the floor.
However, Paul’s business partner KSI confirmed Post Sports that Paul was ‘fine’ and could fight at the weekend.