Winners and Losers From the Logan Paul vs. Dillon Danis Card (2024)

Into every sports weekend, a little Paul family must fall.

OK, so Logan and younger brother Jake don't perform in pay-per-view events that often, but the hoopla surrounding their intermittent appearances does make it seem like it.

It was the older sibling's turn in the spotlight this time around in Manchester, England, where he shared a boxing ring with intermittent mixed martial arts competitor Dillon Danis in a co-main event alongside a headliner matching Tommy Fury and social media giant KSI.

Paul and Danis met in a six-round bout with a 195-pound weight limit, while Fury and KSI agreed to a 183-pound limit and met in a scheduled six-rounder.

Those bouts finished off an 11-fight show that included multiple influencer and crossover types, albeit with a lower profile than Paul and his pals. The B/R combat team was in place to take it all in and compiled a list of the event's definitive winners and losers in real time.

Take a look at what we came up with and give us a thought in the comments.

In the end, it didn't really matter who got the nod.

Following nine fights that were intermittently compelling if not entirely entertaining, both the co-main and the main event of Saturday night's card in Manchester were comprehensively disappointing.

Jake Paul conqueror Tommy Fury and his PPV rival KSI spentnearly all of their 18 minutes together clinching and flailing ineffectualpunches in a dull six-rounder that eventually ended with Fury getting his handraised as the winner by majority decision.

It was the 10th straight victory for Fury, who defeated Paul in February and immediately called for a rematch with his Ohio-born rival, who'd been in the building to watch his brother Logan in the co-main.

Two judges gave Fury the nod by 57-56 scores, meaning theyawarded him four of six rounds but deducted a point for a hitting behind thehead foul in Round 2. A third judge hadit even at 57.

The B/R card agreed with the majority and had it 57-56 for Fury, who landed 39 punches to KSI's 38.

"He goes his way I go mine," Fury said. "I'm done with this sh-t, all this crossover sh-t. Any of the Pauls want it, I welcome it with open arms."

KSI immediately came to center ring during Fury's interview to claim he'd been wronged.

"Robbery. Robbery," he said. "I won three rounds plus a point deduction. How do I lose a six-rounder?"

Fury did have trouble early with his rival's awkward style, which consistently of standing sideways, bouncing up and down and rushing in with flailing arms.

The mesh resulted in clinch after clinch after clinch, and Fury's only successes came when he was able to land shots as KSI leaped in.

"You're a sore loser. You're a bum," Fury said to KSI. "Back to YouTube, you bum."

Dillon Danis may be an MMA fighter on something close to a world-class level.

And he was certainly adept enough with his mouth to hype an event on Saturday night.

But when it comes to boxing, he's little more than a high-profile windbag.

The former Bellator competitor essentially worked himself off the highest-profile influencer boxing platform with a pathetic effort that ultimately yielded a disqualification loss when he charged Logan Paul's corner and incited a brief in-ring fracas between the security teams.

"He truly is a coward, just a dirty, dirty human being," Paul said of his longtime nemesis, who'd caused a cut alongside Paul's right eye when he threw a microphone during a fight-week event.

"He's a demon. You look the devil in the eyes, and you do what I did tonight, you eliminate that b-tch from your life."

Danis promised mayhem when he got Paul, who'd last appeared in an exhibition against Floyd Mayweather Jr. two years ago, into a ring.

But he basically plodded forward behind a high guard for five rounds, landed only 16 punches across 18 minutes, and mixed in attempts at an MMA-ilk guillotine choke and double-leg takedown when he'd run out of boxing answers.

The second and final guillotine choke try came in the final seconds of the sixth, but Danis slipped off and fell to the canvas, where Paul swung and missed in an attempt to land a hammer fist. Danis got up and charged Paul in his corner, prompting the intervention of the security teams.

"Danis threw more punches at the security guards than he did in the fight," blow-by-blow man Todd Grisham said. "He did all the work outside of the ring to make this fight as big as it is, but it's impossible to be impressed. In fact, it was an embarrassment for him."

Paul, who's spent time in the WWE since his last boxing appearance, called out wrestler Rey Mysterio for a scripted performance fight and ex-UFC champ Conor McGregor, a good friend of Danis, for a boxing match in 2024.

"He called himself a real fighter," Paul said. "Hey Conor, I took your b-tch, put him on a leash and took him for a walk. If Conor wants to stand up for his b-tch, I'll fight that little leprechaun next year."

Deion Sanders learned the hard way on Friday night.

Coach Prime's Colorado football team was up 29 points and strutting its collective stuff before stumbling down the stretch on the way to a double-overtime loss to Stanford.

Come Saturday, it was a similar tale for Salt Papi.

Born Nathaniel Bustamante, the popular Filipino had cruisedthrough three rounds, and he greeted a barrage from opponent Slim Albaher earlyin the fourth with a smile and a shake of the head.

It wasn't long before that reaction proved imprudent.

Albaher followed up the initial volley of shots with severalmore series of hard blows, then eventually dropped his foe with a right handand finished it soon after with six seconds to go in the round.

It was a sixth straight win for Albaher and gave him a second weight class championship in the promotion, this time at middleweight, after he'd already reigned at light heavyweight.

"You have to take every opponent seriously. You cannot let up," blow-by-blow man Todd Grisham said. "That's what we learned here tonight."

The winner agreed.

"You can't do that sh-t to the Hitman. I'm the sh-t, man," Albaher said. "I've got that right hand. Sniper baby. All it takes is one. He was piecing me up. But I learned his game and I was countering the counter punches."

His given name is Nurideen Shabazz. His ring name is Deenthe Great.

But regardless of what you call him, the 26-year-old fromFlorida can fight.

Already a winner of four straight fights on the influencer circuit, Deen displayed more all-around technique than any handful of performers on Saturday's card before ultimately dispatching second-time foe Walid Sharks by unanimous decision in a consistently entertaining five-round scrap.

Shorter but quicker and more accurate than Sharks, whom he'd stopped in three rounds last November, Deen landed counter right hands from in close nearly every time his aggressive foe approached. He scored a pair of knockdowns and controlled most of the action in the first four rounds, then survived a Sharks onslaught in the final three minutes before embracing his rival at the final bell.

Deen swept the scorecards by counts of 49-44, 49-44 and 48-45 to retain the Misfits promotion's lightweight title, claimed he fought through a separated left shoulder, then was clearly feeling the vibe when he called out world-class pros Gervonta Davis and Ryan Garcia for his next fight.

"I'm still here. I did everything I said I was gonna do. I talked the talk and walked the walk," he said. "Ain't no one else on the influencer scene can f--k with me. I fought and whooped that ass while being crippled."

It wasn't a good look for King Kenny.

A local hero to the British crowd and possessor of significantadvantages in height, reach, quickness, and youth, it seemed the 26-year-oldborn as Kenny Ojuederie was all set for a hometown star turn.

But rather than using his six-foot frame and 76-inch reach tohammer a charging Anthony Taylor into submission, the would-be favorite wascuriously passive and frequently chose to hold rather than punch as the smallerman overwhelmed him on the way to a unanimous five-round decision.

Taylor, who'd flopped in a challenge of headliner Tommy Fury two years ago, strutted to the ring with an entourage that could have been plucked from a local gentlemen's club. But he took advantage of his high-profile foe's passiveness and won by 49-45 counts on all three scorecards.

It cost King Kenny the Misfits promotion's light heavyweight title, and, more importantly, might have cost him the high-profile perch he'd earned with four wins in his last five fights.

"He just let him bull rush in and control every aspect of this fight," Misfits co-president Mams Taylor said. "He did something that was very, very difficult to do. He made this crowd quiet. He put them to sleep."

Measured against influencer peers, Nathan Tenner Bartling and Whindersson Nunes Batista earn points for superior technique. But that's not the object, insists analyst Ariel Helwani.

"Everyone wants to win, but that really doesn't matter when it comes to this kind of boxing," he said. "What the promoters want is exciting fights. That's what's important.

"That's far more meaningful to the fans than a boring, technical bout."

Both Bartling, who's billed as "My Mate Nate," and Batista, who fights without the surname, displayed acumen that resembled what you'd see in a low-level traditional boxing match. But it wasn't what the people at the Manchester Arena were looking for in the second bout on the PPV card and it was greeted by groans and boos between each round.

Nate, who's based in Thailand, ended up winning a unanimous decision, sweeping all four rounds on all three scorecards. He's 4-1 in five fights while Nunes fell to 2-2-1 in his five.

"It was an OK fight," Helwani said, "but I didn't see either guy really put a stamp on it."

If you've never seen tag-team boxing, there's one word for it.

Whew!

The chaos of four fighters tagging in and out of the ring, wrestling style, is an acquired taste, especially for those brought up on traditional one-on-one fighting. But it's easy to see why the instant gratification set that's been reared on social media might find it entertaining.

The pairing of Alex Wassabi and NickLmao opened the PPV show with a four-rounder against Luis Pineda and BDave, and there were more than enough hard blows and gamesmanship to satisfy those thirsty for amateur-level violence.

Wassabi, a 33-year-old based in California whose real name is Alexander Burriss, had one "legitimate" professional bout six months ago in Florida and showed flashes of ring acumen behind defense, a solid left jab and occasional straight rights that found their targets.

The fight ended in a split-decision draw, with each team earning a 39-37 (three rounds to one) scorecard and the third judge seeing it all even at 38-38.

OK, let's face it.

If you're a traditional boxing fan who dropped a few dozen dollars on the show and got surprised when you saw what was occurring, it's on you.

Because there's a good chance you can't be trusted with large sums of money.

But that doesn't change the fact that if you thought you were getting Jim Lampley and Larry Merchant at ringside, this was a bit of culture shock.

The army of broadcasting misfits marched out at the show's midday (ET) open was terrifying enough to those brought up on HBO and Showtime, and it got just marginally better when the PPV show opened with host Ade Oladipo and he introduced special guests Chris Eubank Jr., Idris Virgo, and Ariel Helwani.

For those unaware, Helwani has years of street cred in the MMA world and lent at least marginal credence to the circus, while Eubank is a legitimate professional boxer with world championship-level legitimacy and is the son of a British ring legend. Virgo is a hero to those familiar with the Misfits Boxing scene, having gone 12-0-1 in 13 bouts from 2018 to 2021.

In case it matters to you, the ringside blow-by-blow duties were handled by veteran Todd Grisham, WWE alum Jonathan Coachman and someone called RoundHouse Radio.

Buckle up.

Main Card

Tommy Fury def. KSI by majority decision (57-57, 57-56, 57-56)

Logan Paul def. Dillon Danis by disqualification, 3:00, Round 6

Slim def. Salt Papi by TKO, 2:54, Round 4

Deen The Great def. Walid Sharks by unanimous decision (49-44, 49-44, 48-45)

Anthony Taylor def. King Kenny by unanimous decision (49-45, 49-45, 49-45)

My Mate Nate def. Whindersson Nunes by unanimous decision (40-36, 40-36, 40-36)

Wassabi/Lmao drew with Pineda/BDave by split decision (39-37, 37-39, 38-38)

Preliminary Card

Ed Matthews def. Swarmz by KO, 0:30, Round 1

Tempo Arts def. Chase DeMoor by split decision (39-37, 37-39, 39-37)

Astrid Wett def. Alexia Grace by majority decision (28-28, 30-26, 30-26)

DTG def. S-X by TKO, 1:59, Round 1