Ben Askren claims Dillon Danis was \u201cscared\u201d of fighting Jake Paul Wikimedia\/Instagram\/Jakepaul\/dillondanisWith mixed martial artist Ben Askren officially stepping foot into the ring against YouTube celebrity Jake Paul on April 17, the former UFC star has revealed some new information about the origins of the match and how Dillon Danis seems to have ducked the confrontation. Jake Paul vs Ben Askren was officially announced on January 26, with Paul revealing his next boxing opponent on Twitter via a slick poster. The two had been engaged in social media shenanigans for some time, and after weeks of back-and-forth, Askren officially accepted the challenge on December 22 \u2013 and now, the contract is signed. While that may be all well and good, Ben wasn\u2019t even who Jake originally wanted to match up against, according to Askren. During an interview with ESPN\u2019s Ariel Helwani, Ben delved into how Dillon Danis didn\u2019t want to take the fight. (Segment starts at 3:08) \u201cDillon Danis is actually afraid of Jake Paul!\u201d he revealed after claiming that Jake really wanted to fight him. \u201cLegitimately, I\u2019m not messing with you.\u201d While the conversation shifted, the two returned to the topic of Danis a bit later on. (Segment starts at 28:43) \u201cDude, Dillon is such a little\u2026 can you believe how much of a little bitch this guy is?\u201d Askren laughed. \u201cAnd how he wants to act like he wanted the fight? I mean listen, Ariel, I will give you this: I don\u2019t want to crap on myself. I was number two. I was not in the driver\u2019s seat. It was Dillon Danis.\u201d \u201cDillon Danis is actually scared of a YouTube star! That\u2019s so embarrassing!\u201d the former UFC fighter added. Danis has, however, denied claims that he\u2019s too chicken to take on a YouTube boxer. On Twitter, Danis shared DMs sent by Jake ,and how he would have preferred a June bout. He also called an offer the YouTuber\u2019s manager sent \u201cpure dog shit.\u201d As for Askren\u2019s own match against Jake Paul, the former Bellator Welterweight Championship revealed he predicts that he will win by TKO in the seventh round, citing his lack of power as the only reason it will go so deep. \u201cIt\u2019s going to take me some time to beat him down and make him hate his life,\u201d he chuckled. We\u2019ll have to see if the prediction comes true when the two face off on April 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ben Askren claims Dillon Danis was \u201cscared\u201d of fighting Jake Paul Wikimedia\/Instagram\/Jakepaul\/dillondanisWith mixed martial artist Ben Askren officially stepping foot into the ring against YouTube celebrity Jake Paul on April 17, the former UFC star has revealed some new information about the origins of the match and how Dillon Danis seems to have ducked the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}