Logan Paul says he will fight Dillon Danis as planned despite suffering injury during melee

Logan Paul said he will fight Dillon Danis as planned Saturday despite getting bloodied Thursday when Danis hit him in the face with a microphone after a melee broke out during a news conference.

"Dillon can’t escape me," Paul posted on X. "The fight is very much happening, the stakes just got higher."

Earlier, Paul’s trainer said the YouTube celebrity suffered an eye injury that could jeopardize the bout scheduled for six rounds.

"Right now, we going through hell," Milton Lacroix, Paul’s trainer, told USA TODAY Sports during a phone interview. "He got hit in the face. His eye’s cut. So right now I’m just bugging out right now, just trying to find somebody.

"There might not be a fight."

But the CEO of the company promoting the boxing match later said Paul is "still ready to fight.''

"Logan’s good," Olajide Olatunji, the CEO of Misfits Boxing, told reporters. "I went to go see him. He’s all good. He’s still ready to fight. If anything he’s very angry and he can’t wait to get his hands on Dillon."

Olatunji, who is better known as KSI and fighting in the co-main event, described Paul's injury as a "bump."

The feud between Paul and Danis leading up the fight has turned nasty, with Danis having posted sexually explicit photos of Paul’s fiancé, Nina Agdal, online.

Agdal filed a lawsuit last month accusing Danis of "a relentless, ongoing campaign of cyber harassment and bullying against her" that included "unlawfully posting nonconsensual, sexually explicit photographs of her on the internet without her consent."

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Logan Paul-Dillon Danis news conference erupts into melee