Dillon Danis doesn’t assume a lot of the present UFC roster, particularly middleweight champion Khamzat Chimaev.
The undefeated Chimaev claimed his first title with a lopsided choice win over Dricus du Plessis at UFC 319 and awaits his first challenger, with a key matchup between Reinier de Ridder and Brendan Allen happening subsequent week at UFC Vancouver and high contender Nassourdine Imavov ready within the wings. Danis believes he has a greater likelihood than all of them of handing Chimaev his first loss.
Throughout a latest look on Demetrious Johnson’s MightyCast, Danis weighed his choices coming off of a fast submission win at Misfits Boxing 22—Danis’s first MMA combat in over six years—and he’s assured he’d be a direct championship contender in UFC if given the chance.
“Do I’m going to the UFC?” Danis stated. “I may beat Islam [Makhachev]. I may beat Jon Jones. I may beat all these guys. Who’s the ‘85 champ? I don’t even know. … I’d wager you each cash in my checking account in opposition to your checking account that I’d beat his ass.”
Danis, an completed Brazilian jiu-jitsu competitor, doesn’t have many MMA credentials to talk of. His August win over Warren Spencer made him Misfit Boxing’s inaugural mild heavyweight champion, however that marked simply the third combat of Danis’s MMA profession.
Chimaev, however, is 15-0 with a dozen wins coming by means of knockout or submission. 5 of his 9 UFC wins have come within the first spherical, together with a violent face crank of former middleweight champion Robert Whittaker. Outdoors of some shut calls in opposition to Gilbert Burns and Kamaru Usman, Chimaev has not often been examined.
It’s the Burn’s combat Danis factors to as proof that he has the key to defeat Chimaev.
“Have a look at ‘Durinho,’ the way in which that he fought Khamzat is the way in which that you simply beat him,” Danis stated. “You must have good jiu-jitsu. You possibly can’t turtle after which go in opposition to the fence otherwise you’re going to get sat there all day. You must play guard in opposition to him and nobody within the division has an excellent guard. The one person who has an opportunity is [de Ridder] as a result of he has good jiu-jitsu. However it might be a straightforward combat for me. I’d submit him off my again, simply.”
Danis wanted simply 15 seconds to defeat Spencer and he’s itching to return to motion. In accordance with the New Jersey native, he already has a combat lined up, however Misfits Boxing is but to announce it.
If by some likelihood within the close to future the UFC required his companies, Danis is able to take that decision.
“I believe it’s December,” Danis stated of his potential subsequent combat. “I wish to combat tomorrow. I’m able to combat, I didn’t take any harm. I want I may combat somebody on the road or some shit. I wish to combat so dangerous, I’m able to go. I’m so pumped up. But when UFC comes round and so they’re like, ‘Hey pay attention, we’ll provide you with good simple layup like Kevin Holland’ or one thing, I’ll do it. It relies upon, we’ll see the place negotiations go proper now.”
