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That’s all for Dillon Danis.
MMA’s bad boy, who has now gotten into brawls at two different events that he was not actively competing in, has been banned for life from attending the promotion’s events, UFC president Dana White revealed to reporters after UFC 322.
“You will never see Dillon Danis at a UFC fight ever again,” White said of Danis after he got into a free-for-all melee with teammates of Islam Makhachev that took well over a dozen security agents to break up.
The brawl occurred between the featured prelim bout — which Bo Nickal won by knockout in round three — and the main cards beginning.
The issue stemmed from previous beef from a 2018 fight between Makhachev’s training partner Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor, who was training with Danis at the time.
Bad blood boiled in that one as Danis was attacked by Nurmagomedov after a fourth round submission win over McGregor, igniting an even more insane brawl that spilled into the cage and into the stands.
“I blame myself for that [brawl], actually,” White continued post fight referring to the UFC 322 brawl on Saturday night. “They came back and told me right before I walked out for the main card that Dillon Danis was here and he was moving around sitting in fighters seats and not sitting in his own seat that he had. He had a ticket. And they said, ‘Do you want us to throw him out of here?’ and I said, ‘He has a ticket?’ and they said, ‘Yeah.’ They told me that [former UFC fighter] [Jorge] Masvidal said he’s going to f–k him up on sight. And I said, ‘Where is Masvidal sitting?’ and they said, ‘Well, he’s six or seven rows away from Masvidal.’ So I said ‘If the guy has a ticket, let him sit in his seat. Let him do what he’s doing, but keep an eye on him.”
Danis then got into a fight with Makhachev’s teammates.
“It never even crossed my mind, as stupid as that could be, that the entire muslin brotherhood was here tonight in the first five rows for Islam [Makhachev]. As soon as it broke out I was over to the side and I said, ‘F–k I know exactly what that is.'”
White revealed that the UFC had the option to press charges against Danis.
“So they call me from downstairs and they said, ‘We got him down here do you want to press charges and have him arrested?” And I said, ‘No, we don’t want to press charges. This is the fight business man. You know how I feel about this s–t. I could have prevented this tonight.”
Danis has badly wanted to get into the UFC, so much so that he mapped out his road to the UFC in an exclusive interview with The Post in August.
“I talked to Hunter [Campbell, UFC Chief Business Officer] and there’s certain things that we talk about that I can’t say,” Danis said. “He just wants me to stay active and show that I want to fight.”
He even laid out potential opponents in the UFC.
“I think the 170-pound division, they’re not good to be honest with you,” Danis added in August. “Kevin Holland, and who’s the other guy that he just lost to? There’s so many guys that are just so bad in the top 15. I would run through like Daniel Rodriguez. All of these guys are terrible.”
It would appear that his UFC hopes from come to a crashing halt, despite the fact that he has another fighter booked for Dec. 20 against Anthony Taylor in a regional promotion called “Misfits.”
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