{"id":326844,"date":"2019-10-01T06:30:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T13:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=326844"},"modified":"2019-10-01T06:30:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T13:30:58","slug":"dillon-danis-aims-low-in-latest-shot-at-ben-askren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/dillon-danis-aims-low-in-latest-shot-at-ben-askren\/","title":{"rendered":"Dillon Danis aims low in latest shot at Ben Askren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dillon Danis has been keeping busy on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, he alleged that he&#8217;s set for a fight against <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/dillon-danis-claims-hes-signed-contract-for-jake-paul-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube star Jake Paul<\/a>. This week, he&#8217;s targeting UFC welterweight contender Ben Askren.<\/p>\n<p>The Bellator talent called out the UFC fighter with a crude meme. See it below.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B4qTUp42Tg\">pic.twitter.com\/B4qTUp42Tg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dillon Danis (@dillondanis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dillondanis\/status\/1178832963485798402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This comes a week after Ben Askren mocked Danis for his <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ben-askren\/ben-askren-roasts-dillon-danis-for-adcc-withdrawal\/\">withdrawal from ADCC.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dillon Danis is keen on making a cross-promotional fight happen between himself and Ben Askren. Bellator has accomplished cross-promotional bouts with RIZIN and BAMMA, but a co-promoted bout with the UFC would be a first.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know\u2019s crazy? I feel like this cross-promotion thing is getting closer and closer and I really think that it\u2019s gonna happen,&#8221; he said on Ariel Helwani&#8217;s MMA Show recently. &#8220;I really think that me and Ben Askren are gonna fight. I really do think so. I think it\u2019s gonna happen for some reason.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Danis, the ball is now in Askren&#8217;s court, so his meme is surely another provocation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was talking to Scott Coker and they were talking about cross-promotion and he\u2019s open to doing it with the UFC. I really think that if Ben Askren wants to do, it it\u2019s gonna happen. So I think it\u2019s on him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Askren is yet to respond to Danis&#8217; latest jab, but he has targeted Danis in the past. He also claimed he is open to a <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ben-askren\/ben-askren-roasts-dillon-danis-for-adcc-withdrawal\/\">grappling match against the young talent in the future.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point, it\u2019s my MMA career [I&#8217;m focused on],\u201d Askren said on Ariel Helwani\u2019s MMA Show. \u201cWhen I am done with that if I chose to take part in a grappling contest it would be Dillion Danis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, he challenged me to a grappling match,\u201d he added. \u201cAfter my MMA career that\u2019s something I would definitely do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Askren last fought in July when he took on Jorge Masvidal and ended up on the wrong-end of a record-shattering, five-second knockout.\u00a0He&#8217;s now looking ahead to his next fight. He will collide with Demian Maia at UFC Singapore on October 26.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps somewhere down the road he&#8217;ll also have the opportunity to settle his beef with Dillon Danis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 10\/1\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dillon Danis has been keeping busy on social media. Last week, he alleged that he&#8217;s set for a fight against YouTube star Jake Paul. This week, he&#8217;s targeting UFC welterweight contender Ben Askren. The Bellator talent called out the UFC fighter with a crude meme. See it below. pic.twitter.com\/B4qTUp42Tg &mdash; Dillon Danis (@dillondanis) October 1, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54472,"featured_media":287389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[44,10184,10467,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dillon Danis aims low in latest shot at Ben Askren | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bellator prospect Dillon Danis takes a jab at UFC fighter and Olympic wrestler, Ben Askren by posting a meme about him on Twitter.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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