Bellator MMA fighter Dillon Danis is throwing fight-fixing claims around Jake Paul’s boxing matches.
After multiple failed attempts at tempting Paul into a boxing match, Danis released alleged screenshots and recordings of his conversations with Paul’s on-again, off-again head boxing coach, “Sugar” Shane Mosley.
In the screenshots, Danis claims that the boxing legend Mosley said Paul will fight Danis only if he is injured or physically compromised coming into the fight.
“Doubt Jake will make the fight with you if he knows your knee is good tho so keep it on the low if you really trying to make that fight,” the screenshots of the supposed Instagram DMs read. “Definitely wouldn’t let it be known you talking to me about possibly training [together] or tips. He definitely ain’t signing up to fight you then.”
Danis claims the remainder of the conversation with Mosley – which he conveniently did not show – goes deeper into how these fights that Paul promotes are fixed.
“It’s fake. Stop asking stupid sh–t,” Paul, who is boxing Nate Diaz on Saturday night, said when asked about the Danis DMs.
Mosley potentially stabbing Paul in the back and offering to train a potential opponent stems from the Danis’ leak that claims “Jake did something pretty f–ked up to me [Mosley] and my girl so I’m down to help you beat him,” the boxing legend allegedly said.
Danis, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt, has been struggling to return to combat sports after knee reconstruction surgery stemming from an injury he received during a training mishap.
The alleged conversation occurred in January 2021, when Danis complained of scar tissue in his knee that was “super painful” and that Paul was pushing for a boxing match in March while Danis wanted to wait for June for more healing time.
Mosley, in the alleged messages, gave Danis some tips on how to heal up faster and then explained that Danis should “leak fake info about how your knee is shot for good and you won’t be in shape to fight in March or June,” and also mentioned that Paul’s team would “love to fight a crippled fighter.”
Rather than fight Danis, Paul would go on to fight Ben Askren in April of 2021, a knockout win against the former MMA champion who had recently gone under the knife for hip surgery.
Askren was asked about similar fight-fixing claims at the time and called them “obviously false.”
Mosley and Paul had seemed to have patched things up prior to this, with Mosley returning to Paul’s corner for this weekend’s fight with Diaz.
Although, Mosley was not seen during open availability on Tuesday after Danis went on his clandestine message leak.
Danis has yet to return to combat sports nearly two years later, pulling out of a boxing match with Youtuber KSI for undisclosed reasons despite constant attempts at maintaining relevance.
You may remember Danis was infamously attacked by Khabib Nurmagomedov jumping out of the UFC cage after defeating Conor McGregor at UFC 229 on Oct. 6, 2018.
“Look at him screaming at the corner. He’s screaming at Dillon Danis, Conor McGregor’s jiu-jitsu coach,” Joe Rogan said while on the call for the major UFC event.
Paul is slated to fight Diaz on Saturday in his first fight since his first boxing loss to Tommy Fury, a split decision.
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