Conor McGregor \u201cimpressed\u201d with Dillon Danis despite Logan Paul\u2019s victory DAZNConor McGregor has nothing but praise for Dillon Danis following his defeat against Logan Paul in the boxing ring. After many months of back-and-forth, Logan Paul and Dillon Danis finally went toe-to-toe on October 14. Danis, a jiu-jitsu world champion and MMA fighter, was visibly out of his depth in the boxing ring and it was Paul who dominated every round with a significant size and reach advantage. However, the fight took an unexpected turn in the final round when Danis shot for a double-leg takedown and attempted a guillotine choke. Both actions are illegal in boxing and ended up resulting in a disqualification for Danis and a win for Paul. That said, Danis\u2019 ability to put up 6 rounds against Logan Paul didn\u2019t go unnoticed. McGregor \u201cimpressed\u201d by Danis\u2019 performance in the ring It didn\u2019t take long for former two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor and training partner of Danis to share his opinions on the fight, taking to Twitter to share that he was \u201cimpressed\u201d by Danis\u2019 performance. McGregor provided more analysis of the fight in an audio clip shared just minutes later. \u201cAre you not entertained?\u201d McGregor begins. \u201cLook, I was impressed. Good shots. Need to believe in those shots more and let them go. Some of them were alright. Some of them he was throwing were alright, he just needed to let them go a little bit more,\u201d the former UFC champion continued, genuinely analyzing Danis\u2019 performance. McGregor\u2019s comments weren\u2019t all praise, however, as he made sure to throw in his opinions about Logan Paul\u2019s actions: \u201cWhat\u2019d your man do, anyway? Didn\u2019t even wobble him. Didn\u2019t even hurt him.\u201d He went on, perhaps alluding to Paul\u2019s relief following the bout, \u201cGuess what, mate? You\u2019re back in a dark spot. Back in the locker room with your one, thinking about all the s**t \u2026 You\u2019re still in a dark spot, bro. You\u2019ve done nothing.\u201d In his post-fight interview, Paul expressed his desire to fight McGregor next year, further heating up the rivalry between the MMA and YouTube communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Conor McGregor \u201cimpressed\u201d with Dillon Danis despite Logan Paul\u2019s victory DAZNConor McGregor has nothing but praise for Dillon Danis following his defeat against Logan Paul in the boxing ring. After many months of back-and-forth, Logan Paul and Dillon Danis finally went toe-to-toe on October 14. Danis, a jiu-jitsu world champion and MMA fighter, was visibly […]<\/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-46120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46120","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=46120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}