{"id":108992,"date":"2025-08-31T16:37:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T16:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108992\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T16:37:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T16:37:04","slug":"eddie-hall-makes-surprise-dillon-danis-admission-moments-after-pair-agree-terms-for-mma-super-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108992\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Hall makes surprise Dillon Danis admission moments after pair agree terms for MMA super-fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eddie Hall wants to fight Dillon Danis next, but it may not be the grudge match that everyone is expecting.<\/p>\n<p>The pair finally came head-to-head last night after <a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/08\/30\/dillon-danis-faces-off-with-eddie-hall-after-winning-first-mma-fight-in-six-years-within-seconds\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Danis stopped Warren Spencer within 15 seconds<\/a> in his return to <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA<\/a> action. They appeared to agree to a fight where Hall would drop to 300lb, although it now appears the American needs a bit more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/2025\/08\/30\/eddie-hall-claims-he-will-cut-64lb-in-weeks-to-make-weight-for-dillon-danis-mma-fight-but-it-might-not-be-enough\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hall is willing to drop enough weight to get to a career-low<\/a>, and claims he can do it within just 12 weeks. However, Danis now wants him at the UFC limit of 265lb in order to make a deal happen.<\/p>\n<p>Eddie Hall admits he is a fan of Dillon Danis despite fight talks<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/eddie-hall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eddie Hall<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/dillon-danis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dillon Danis<\/a> have shared back-and-forth for the last year or so. Despite that it seems that the 2017 World\u2019s Strongest Man is a big fan of his rival\u2019s unique brand of trash talk, particularly when it comes to Logan and <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/jake-paul\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Paul<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m actually quite a fan of Dillon,\u201d Hall admitted during an exclusive chat with Bloody Elbow. \u201cI love his s\u2014 talk, he\u2019s got brilliant s\u2014 talk. I think it was the feud with <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodyelbow.com\/tag\/logan-paul\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Paul<\/a> and his brother that first made me aware of him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a bit of a fan, but you can be a fan of someone and still want to knock them out\u2026 I\u2019ve been cruising with 3\/4 sessions a week and getting ready for the contract to fall on my lap so I can get into the camp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dillon Danis wants Eddie Hall to lose almost 100lb for grudge fight<\/p>\n<p>After finally getting to 3-0 after six years out of action, Danis is keen on making his way to the UFC through activity and staying busy. It\u2019s unclear what the sport\u2019s main promotion would think of a freak show fight like the Hall one, but the New Yorker\u2019s mind seems elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"559\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Dillon-Danis-Eddie-Hall-face-off-1024x559.png\" alt=\"Dillon Danis and Eddie Hall face off in the ring\" class=\"wp-image-244428\" \/>Credit: David Cavan\/Wasserman Boxing<\/p>\n<p>In order to make the bout more palatable, he would like Hall to get to a weight he hasn\u2019t reached since his teens of 265lb. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has to make at least the UFC heavyweight limit,\u201d Danis told media including Bloody Elbow during the post-fight press conference. \u201cHe has to at least make that, but if he can do it then hell yeah I\u2019d do it. 425lb is what he wanted to fight at, I\u2019m 170lb. At least make the UFC weight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eddie Hall wants to fight Dillon Danis next, but it may not be the grudge match that everyone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,11080,29167,786,77552,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-108992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-dillon-danis","11":"tag-eddie-hall","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-misfite-boxing","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}