UFC lightweight Kevin Lee said a $100,000 jiu-jitsu match with Bellator welterweight Dillon Danis is a real thing, and he’s working to make it happen.

“He issued the challenge,” Lee (17-3 MMA, 10-3 UFC) today told MMAjunkie Radio. “I’m still waiting to hear back. I know his people reached out to mine. I said I’ll take it.”

Danis (1-0 MMA, 1-0 BMMA), might be an MMA neophyte, but he called for the match after Lee recently dissed his grappling skills. The wave of attention that followed was amusing to Lee, but he doesn’t want to turn the whole thing into a promoted event.

“It’s just going to be me and him,” he said. “Man to man. Just straight jiu-jitsu.”

That’s not to say the general public won’t be able to see what happens when the two competitors meet on the mat. But just where they’ll be able to tune in remains up in the air.

“(Danis) said we’ll put it on our Instagram story,” Lee said. “That seems a little too small. That we have to figure out. But it will just be me and him probably in a room. We’ll put it on YouTube or something.”

Lee, a Las Vegas resident, offered to have the match the week of UFC 229, when Danis will be in town with Conor McGregor (21-3 MMA, 9-1 UFC) for a fight against Khabib Nurmagomedov (26-0 MMA, 10-0 UFC). He even agreed to have McGregor coach John Kavanagh act as a referee – if they even use one.

“He’ll have some free time,” Lee said. “We can set aside an hour or two and get it done.”

Lee initially wanted the match contested under combat jiu-jitsu rules, he said, so “if he goes for my knee, I can smack the (expletive) out of him.” But he’s apparently agreed to a straight jiu-jitsu fight.

Lee, after all, is unconcerned about the competitive stakes. He claims he “threw around” Danis when they previously rolled in Las Vegas, and he’ll do the same on camera. But even if he doesn’t, only his pride would sting.

“I grapple every day,” he said. “What am I going to do, lose? I don’t give a (expletive). It’s 100 Gs. I’m going to be pissed, but it is what it is.”

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