Dillon Danis vows to retire Tony Ferguson ahead of GFL matchup

Dillon Danis plans to put the nail in the coffin of Tony Ferguson's MMA career.
Danis (2-0), who is a part of GFL's Team New York, takes on Team Los Angeles' Ferguson (25-11) in a lightweight main event bout May 25 at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
In his most recent outing, Ferguson suffered a UFC-record eighth consecutive loss when he was submitted by Michael Chiesa this past August. Danis aims to add to 'El Cucuy's' losing skid.
'I'm going to retire Tony Ferguson and bury 'El Cucuy' in the same grave as his win streak,' Danis told MMA Junkie in a text message Tuesday.
Danis was scheduled to face KSI in a 185-pound boxing match, slated to headline Misfits Boxing 21 on March 29 in Manchester, England. However, the bout was scrapped when KSI withdrew due to illness. The controversial jiu-jitsu practitioner hasn't competed since boxing YouTube and WWE star Logan Paul in October 2023 – a fight he lost by disqualification.
His last MMA fight came in June 2019 when he submitted Max Humphrey at Bellator 222. While Danis is booked to face Ferguson in May, his in-cage return might come even sooner. In a recent interview on 'The Ariel Helwani Show,' Mike Perry revealed that he said yes to replacing KSI against Danis, but in a Misfits-first MMA fight, which would likely take place in April.
'KSI is out, Dillon Danis wants to fight MMA,' Perry said. 'I'm saying yes, so we have got to see what Mams (Taylor) is coming up with over there in Misfits, and they're changing it completely because he was going to fight KSI in boxing. Looks like the date has changed a little bit but might not be too far away. So I said yes to fighting Dillon Danis in MMA, but they've got to come correct. It's a last-minute call, so if they want to make the fight happen, let's do it.'

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