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Dillon Danis is apparently done with fighting.
Last month, Danis got embarrassed in the boxing ring by Logan Paul and was subsequently cut by Bellator MMA.
Over the weekend, Danis was in New York for UFC 295 and told Ariel Helwani that he would retire from fighting if the UFC didn’t sign him.
Via MMA Fighting
“I’m going to tell Dana White. I don’t care who it is. Just give me anybody, and if they don’t do it, I can just retire and chill.
“[I’ll fight Paddy, and if he loses] I’ll fight Tony Ferguson. Who wouldn’t want to see that? I think that would be such an easy fight though, I’d kind of feel bad beating a guy that’s on [such a long] losing streak. He’d be on a one-fight winning streak then, but I think Paddy is so bad. He’s terrible. Just go watch him, he almost lost to Jared Gordon [and] Jared Gordon’s terrible. He did lose to Jared Gordon. Jared’s not good.”
“Everybody wants to see me in the UFC,” Danis explained. “People think that I just did a boxing match, that my jiu-jitsu isn’t on a different level. I’ll fight Islam [Makhachev] first fight. I’ll fight any of them first fight, I swear. At the end of the day, if I lose, I lose.
“I could do 155 or 170. [Holland] an easy fight. Give me a warmup. This is too easy. He has no takedown defense and I think I’d submit him in the first round.”
On Tuesday, Danis tweeted out that he was done with fighting and would retire.
I'm done with fighting. I'm retired. Love you all.
— Dillon Danis (@dillondanis) November 15, 2023
Danis has not fought in MMA since 2019, and it’s unlikely that any respectable MMA org would sign him anytime soon.