Dillon Danis recently had an online scuffle with UFC’s Kevin Lee. To recap, here’s how that went down:

Danis responded:

From there things took a turn:

Speaking on MMAjunkie Radio this week Kevin Lee shared that this grappling match with Dillon Danis is actually in the works.:

“He issued the challenge, “Kevin Lee said. “I’m still waiting to hear back. I know his people reached out to mine. I said I’ll take it.”

“It’s just going to be me and him,” he added. “Man to man. Just straight jiu-jitsu.”

If this sounds like something you want to watch, well, you’ll probably be able to. That said, Kevin Lee isn’t sure about Danis’s idea of streaming the match on Instagram Live.

“[Danis] said we’ll put it on our Instagram story,” Lee said. “That seems a little too small. That we have to figure out. But it will just be me and him probably in a room. We’ll put it on YouTube or something.”
“I grapple every day,” he said. “What am I going to do, lose? I don’t give a (expletive). It’s 100 Gs. I’m going to be pissed, but it is what it is.”

However then it came out that Lee wanted it to be combat jiu jitsu but Danis turned it down.

“I’m not sure. They didn’t even get that far, I don’t think. His management reached out to mine and so I don’t know,” Lee said. “I don’t even think they got that far, to be honest. I think they’re thinking of a time and place. I think they went back to him and asked him if we can do combat Jiu Jitsu and then he shut it down.”

“I’ll hit him up in a few days or so once I figure out what the rest of what I’m doing is going on and really see what we talk about with that. It’s nothing to me. I roll every day anyway. I’ll go out there and roll with him. Who cares. What’s gonna happen? I’m gonna lose? So the f—k what? It will be 100 grand, so I’m not gonna be all happy about it or noting, but look, all is fair and love and war, you know what I mean?”

The concept of combat jiu-jitsu was introduced by Eddie Bravo last year, where palm strikes are allowed in each match. According to Lee, this kind of rule set would greatly favor him, even against a grappler of Danis’ caliber.

“If we did Combat Jiu Jitsu I think it’s a good middle ground. He knows he can’t take me in an MMA,” Lee said. “I’m not gonna bullshit, in a straight Jiu Jitsu match he would stand a good chance, especially with the leg lock game. And he’s just more acclimated there, he’s got a lot more experience, he’s done a lot more.”

“If we do combat Jiu Jitsu, it’s somewhere in the middle. I think it’s most fair. And then it’s a toss-up there. I mean, I think I mount and beat the hell out of him. But what can you say? I think I’d beat him into submission. Let’s say that.”

So now Dillon Danis got a chance to clear the air and here’s what he had to say on Kevin Lee:

I come from being a martial artist since I was a kid and that’s above everything and you don’t talk about trying you know that’s just something that is known in the gym and known and you know in the culture. You just you know training’s training that’s what happens in training stays in training- you know and that kind of rubbed me the wrong way because I never had any beef with him.

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