Dillon Danis<\/a> was matched up against 2-4 Kyle Walker in what appeared to be a gimme fight. <\/p>\n However, the MMA debutant ended up suffering an early scare before winning in just 98 seconds. <\/p>\n Danis was forced to strike when his first takedown attempt was easily shrugged off by Walker. <\/p>\n Seconds later, he was caught with a jab and a massive overhand left that knocked him off balance.<\/p>\n Danis kept advancing, but he ran straight into an even bigger punch that almost floored him. <\/p>\n The submission looked like he might hit the floor before sorting out his feet to remain upright.<\/p>\n Walker\u2019s striking prompted Danis to rush in for a takedown, and when that failed, he settled for a guard pull. <\/p>\n Once the fight was in his world, Danis quickly grabbed onto Walker\u2019s leg and applied a toehold that made him scream in pain. <\/p>\n Walker tapped immediately to give Danis what looked on paper to be a straightforward debut win. <\/p>\n In reality, he had to overcome a truly scary moment that could\u2019ve derailed his hype train before it got going. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Dillon Danis returns to MMA<\/p>\n Danis hasn\u2019t competed in MMA since injuring his knee after a second win in June 2019. <\/p>\n The only fight he\u2019s had since then saw him lose by DQ against Logan Paul<\/a> when they boxed in October 2023. <\/p>\n Earlier this month, Danis\u2019 MMA return was confirmed<\/a> after six years away from the sport.<\/p>\n He\u2019ll square off against Warren Spencer in the first-ever Misfits MMA bout on August 30. <\/p>\n It\u2019ll take place on a card featuring Darren Till vs. Luke Rockhold<\/a> and Tony Ferguson\u2019s boxing debut<\/a>. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dillon Danis\u2019 MMA debut almost ended in disaster when he was tagged by a massive punch. Conor McGregor\u2018s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,11080,786,785,85,23904],"class_list":["post-35121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dillon-danis","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-throwbacks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35121","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=35121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Dillon](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-1735967160-1024x683.jpg\")
Photo by Matt McNulty\/Getty ImagesWatch Dillon Danis make his MMA debut <\/p>\n