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Dillon Danis Had a Beef With Khabib, Believes He Can Submit Him

Dillon Danis Had a Beef With Khabib, Believes He Can Submit Him

 

 

It’s been a non stop confidence tour for Dillon Danis lately. First he was the savior of bjj, worshiped by others and from there it progressed into UFC aspirations and  Jon Jones calling him a D-bag.

Recently he revealed another interesting tidbit – his disdain for Khabib Nurmagomedov. Of course the initial point of discussion was the match between Khabib and McGregor.

“He’s too easily hit,” Danis told Submission Radio. “If you saw in the Michael Johnson fight, he was getting like wobbled and rocked every time they were on the feet. So Conor is going to pick him apart like he does all the wrestlers. He hits you from everywhere and he kicks you in the stomach. And people don’t see those shots on TV, like some of those teep kicks and some of the kicks to the stomach, but those take the wind out of you. And when you basically have to take someone down, it puts a different kind of feeling in your stomach ad in your gut when you have to take the guy down. The guy’s beating you up on the feet, and when you go to the ground he’s elbowing you. So I think Conor puts him away in probably one or two rounds with strikes.”

And the critique doesn’t stop there. Danis has all the confidence in the world in his bjj and with that experience he believes he would have an easy time beating the likes of Khabib in the octagon:

“His hands aren’t that good, he’s a grappler,” Danis explained. “So it would probably be a grappling match and I feel like I can submit him. His Jiu Jitsu’s good, but it’s not very technical. He’s a little sloppy. So I feel like I would be able to finish him. But that could happen. But I’m not stupid either. I’m not gonna go to the UFC and probably fight Khabib in my first fight. But you know, down the road that would be a good match up I feel. He’s not going to be undefeated anymore once if he fights Conor, so I’ll be fine to give him another loss.”

“That would be a good one. It’d be the first time you’d see Khabib on his back.”

Dillon Danis first met Khabib Nurmagomedov several years ago when they were both training at AMA Fight Club in New Jersey under Khabib’s manager Mike Constantion:

“Me and [Khabib] had a little bit of a beef when I was younger. When I was sixteen or seventeen, he used to come to a place in Jersey that I used to train at. His manager was the coach of my gym and he used to wear the stupid shirt that said “if Sambo was easy it would be called Jiu Jitsu” or something. I said okay let’s do it, let’s do a grappling match then and see how easy Jiu Jitsu is. And then never came to fruition. I don’t know what happened, if they told him or they didn’t tell him, but I told the guys, you tell him that I said let’s see how Jiu Jitsu is and I’ll show him. So it’s a stupid shirt he wears.”

Still there’s some bad blood left over, at the weigh ins for the last McGregor bout Danis claims:

“At the last weigh-in all of his Russian friends were staring me down like they wanted to kill me. So I don’t know. That’s just how they are though.”