Logan Paul recently looked back on his boxing match with Dillon Danis and although he won the fight, he clearly didn’t enjoy the process at all. The fight itself wasn’t actually very challenging and Paul was running away with the decision win right up until a brawl broke out; resulting in Danis being disqualified. He didn’t take any physical damage at all really and undoubtedly made a decent amount of money doing it, but Paul still thinks it wasn’t a good idea. Danis did announce that he was going to appeal the disqualification loss but at the moment, the win is still registered to Paul on his official record.
Paul started out by giving some background on how the fight came to be, and why he chose Danis as his opponent:
“I was looking for my next big fight and there was this guy that I thought could sell pay-per-views and so I chose him as my dance partner, and that ended up being the worst mistake of my life.”
He’s not wrong either, Danis definitely worked hard to sell the fight by building interest on social media. In fact, his online presence is the thing that he’s become most known for in recent years. Paul hinted at that too:
“And by the way, if I didn’t say all of this here, and we never talk about him again, he dies. The only people giving that dude life is us. But, we give him life just to take it away, and I’m OK with that.”
What made facing Dillon Danis such a mistake for Logan Paul wasn’t the fight itself, it was actually that build-up to it. Danis immediately took aim at Paul’s fiancee Nina Agdal and although he was allegedly served with a cease and desist, he only increased the online attacks. This made the fight far more personal for Paul than it was originally supposed to be, and Danis was eventually sued by Agdal. Paul explained that it actually had a bigger effect on Agdal than most people realised:
“This guy had no interest in actually fighting me, a fellow man, that he signed up to fight. He just signed up to pick a fight with my girl… It really took a piece of her soul, dude. It really f***ed with her a lot.”
The clip from the interview where Logan Paul discusses fighting Dillon Danis was shared to the official Twitter account of Happy Punch:
