{"id":291247,"date":"2023-10-19T18:26:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T18:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=291247"},"modified":"2023-10-19T18:26:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T18:26:15","slug":"danis-claims-paul-was-smart-to-cover-his-head-in-vaseline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/boxing\/danis-claims-paul-was-smart-to-cover-his-head-in-vaseline\/","title":{"rendered":"Danis claims Paul was &apos;smart&apos; to &apos;cover his head in Vaseline&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Dillon Danis claims Logan Paul was &#8216;smart&#8217; to &#8216;cover his head in Vaseline&#8217; during their boxing fight&#8230; as MMA star admits he was &#8216;trying to go for his neck&#8217; in co-main event<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dillon Danis lost to Logan Paul by disqualification in Manchester last Saturday<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><b>He landed only nine punches and resorted to MMA style takedown attempts<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span>Re-live the action as Paul defeats Danis before a mass brawl breaks out<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dillon Danis extended a rare compliment to Logan Paul by commending his &#8216;smart&#8217; use of Vaseline in his choatic defeat to the WWE\u00a0star last weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The MMA fighter suffered a loss by disqualification in Manchester,\u00a0only for a mass brawl to break out after the fight was called\u00a0in the YouTuber&#8217;s favour.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the bout, Danis fell well short of his billing &#8211; and pre-match taunting &#8211; and landed with just nine punches in the course of the whole contest.<\/p>\n<p>But Danis, who &#8211; in one of the contest&#8217;s most farcical moments &#8211; threw himself at Paul&#8217;s legs having already attempted a jiu-jitsu move by going for his opponent&#8217;s neck, insisted he was happy with his performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And he put forward a curious reason why his unorthodox late-round manoeuvre proved unsuccessful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/18\/12\/76702709-12644371-image-a-7_1697627428113.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Dillon Danis turned in a poor performance and threw just nine punches after directing a barrage of insults to Paul and fiancee Nina Agda in the build-up<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/18\/12\/76568903-12644371-Danis_lost_via_disqualification_after_he_attempted_to_bring_his_-a-6_1697627316370.jpg\" height=\"436\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Danis lost via disqualification after he attempted to bring his rival down with a jiu-jitsu move<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/18\/12\/76568239-12644371-A_massive_brawl_broke_out_at_the_end_of_the_Logan_Paul_Dillon_Da-a-8_1697627472987.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A massive brawl broke out at the end of the Logan Paul &#8211; Dillon Danis fight on Saturday\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I wasn&#8217;t actually trying to but he was smart and he Vaselined his head up.&#8217; He said on Piers Morgan Uncensored. &#8216;So I guess he knew I was going for his neck but at that moment I actually wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was grabbing his head and he just kind of shrugged me and with the Vaseline and then he threw that punch and I up-kicked him.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Danis,\u00a0who is embroiled\u00a0in a legal battle\u00a0with\u00a0Paul&#8217;s fiancee Nina Agdal, also addressed the incident where he dived at the legs of the social media star, adding: &#8216;Oh yes that one time, yeah, I was just messing around a little bit, letting him know what a real fight is.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Boxing is not a real fight, it&#8217;s a half a fight.\u00a0I want to fight him in a real fight, [he] shook my hand and said he was going to fight me in MMA\u2026 he shook my hand, if he&#8217;s a real man, he should. He didn&#8217;t defend his fianc\u00e9e in my opinion. If a man talks about his fianc\u00e9e the way I did about his fianc\u00e9e, he should have knocked me out.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/article-12644371\/Dillon-Danis-claims-Logan-Paul-smart-cover-head-Vaseline-boxing-fight-MMA-star-admits-trying-neck-main-event.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dillon Danis claims Logan Paul was &#8216;smart&#8217; to &#8216;cover his head in Vaseline&#8217; during their boxing fight&#8230; as MMA star<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Danis claims Paul was &amp;apos;smart&amp;apos; to &amp;apos;cover his head in Vaseline&amp;apos; 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