{"id":55116,"date":"2025-01-28T18:21:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/michael-bisping-and-dillon-danis-trade-barbs-on-twitter-over-ksis-boxing-skills-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T18:21:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:21:51","slug":"michael-bisping-and-dillon-danis-trade-barbs-on-twitter-over-ksis-boxing-skills-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/michael-bisping-and-dillon-danis-trade-barbs-on-twitter-over-ksis-boxing-skills-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Bisping and Dillon Danis trade barbs on Twitter over KSI\u2019s boxing skills &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Bisping and Dillon Danis trade barbs on Twitter over KSI\u2019s boxing skills YouTube: TheMacLife, JJ Olatunji, GQ SportsRetired mixed martial artist Michael Bisping is backing YouTube star KSI in his upcoming boxing match against Welterweight Dillon Danis, trading verbal blows with him over Twitter. KSI is gearing up to take on MMA star Dillon Danis on January 14, 2023 in one of his biggest boxing matches yet \u2014 and he\u2019s got a major name in his corner. KSI and Danis had been snapping back and forth via social media for some time prior to signing a contract, sparking rumors that the two would be meeting in the ring to finally settle their differences. In late November, Danis confronted his YouTube rival in person at the weigh-in for a Misfits Boxing x DAZN event, getting into a scuffle with the influencer and even trading blows with Anthony Taylor outside the venue. The very next day, it was revealed that the two rivals would be fighting come 2023. Right now, fans are divided as to who will come out on top\u2026 but KSI has a major player who\u2019s confident the YouTuber will take home the victory. Michael Bisping backs KSI over Dillon Danis for upcoming fight Actor, sports commentator, and mixed martial artist Michael Bisping threw a veiled insult toward Danis on Twitter after the latter asked Bisping who he favored for the upcoming bout. \u201cTough call,\u201d Bisping wrote in a sarcastic reply. \u201cI mean you\u2019re known for having devastating boxing skills right. I fear KSI may have messed up here.\u201d KSI shot back with his own verbal barb, writing: \u201cLmao, you have felt my power on pads, and back then I was terrible. Dillion is sleeping whether I train or not.\u201d The YouTuber is referencing a past training session he had with Bisping, which he also uploaded to Twitter shortly thereafter to show off his skills even when he was \u201cterrible\u201d at the sport. \u201cHere we have Bisping singing my praises when I was terrible,\u201d he wrote. \u201cImagine what I\u2019d do to Dillion now?\u201d This marks KSI\u2019s third bout after his return to boxing, with the British internet star most recently taking on rapper Swarmz and Mexican pro boxer Luis Pineda in his \u2018two fights, one night\u2019 event over the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Bisping and Dillon Danis trade barbs on Twitter over KSI\u2019s boxing skills YouTube: TheMacLife, JJ Olatunji, GQ SportsRetired mixed martial artist Michael Bisping is backing YouTube star KSI in his upcoming boxing match against Welterweight Dillon Danis, trading verbal blows with him over Twitter. KSI is gearing up to take on MMA star Dillon [&hellip;]<\/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-55116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55116","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=55116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}