Dillon Danis knows how to get opportunities, and he may have just gotten one from Mikey Musumeci.
Mikey Musumeci is one of the best pound-for-pound grapplers in the world currently, holding the UFC BJJ bantamweight title to go along with his five IBJJF world championships. Earlier this month, Musumeci defended his title with a foot lock submission of Shay Montague at UFC BJJ 5. On Thursday, Musumeci posted a clip of his submission to social media, leading to Danis talking trash in his comments section.
“Messed up you doing the guy who dropped off my Uber Eats like that”
That prompted a quick response from the champion, calling out Danis for a match, despite Danis most recently competing at 178 pounds.
“Hey Dillon, how about we have a grappling match? You talk all this shit on all my posts, let’s just grapple each other. Maybe you’re physically bigger than me, but my balls are bigger than yours. Let me know if you’re down.”
At one time considered to be one of the best grapplers in the world, Danis rose to fame as a training partner and teammate of Conor McGregor during the peak of McGregor’s MMA career. Danis parlayed that into his own fighting career, though most of his fame and notoriety came from outside-the-cage shenanigans and antagonizing other combat sports athletes. That sort of behavior earned Danis several lucrative boxing opportunities, though he only ever made it to fight night against Logan Paul, and now he may have done so again with Musumeci.
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But Danis may need to act fast. Earlier this week, Musumeci announced that he will be grappling UFC lightweight contender Arman Tsarukyan at some point in the future.
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