{"id":111022,"date":"2025-09-01T15:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/111022\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:11:09","slug":"he-got-clapped-luke-rockhold-gives-his-side-to-hotel-altercation-with-dillon-danis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/111022\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He got clapped\u2019: Luke Rockhold gives his side to hotel altercation with Dillon Danis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Luke Rockhold and Dillon Danis had a bit of a confrontation prior to the Misfits Boxing 22 weigh-ins on Friday, and now, Rockhold is giving his side of the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Rockhold competed in the main event of the card on Saturday, where he was brutally knocked out by Darren Till at AO Arena in Manchester, England. Danis also competed on the card in the first ever Misfits MMA bout, where he picked up a 15 second submission of Warren Spencer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While details of the Rockhold-Danis incident are scarce, Rockhold shared his side to one of the promotional influencers on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AeMLQuuG8VQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Misfits Boxing YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cYou\u2019ve got professional trolls and you\u2019ve got professional fighters,\u201d Rockhold said before Misfits 22. \u201cYou put them in the same space, things are going to happen. Dillon throws water bottles at my head, you talk the shit, the repercussions will have to be accepted<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cHe walked out of the elevator, I walked in, he f*cking talked his shit and he got clapped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Rockhold said the moment was over, and he was turning his attention fully towards Till. Unfortunately, the former UFC and Strikeforce champion was finished in brutal fashion after suffering a series of knockdowns throughout the bout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">As far as Danis goes, Rockhold says he\u2019s happy with giving Danis a little bit of a comeuppance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019m done,\u201d Rockhold said. \u201cI got what I wanted. I got my handprint on Dillon\u2019s f*cking face. You should\u2019ve heard him crying in the back. People should hear what kind of a man that is. He\u2019s not a man, he\u2019s a boy crying.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Rockhold and Dillon Danis had a bit of a confrontation prior to the Misfits Boxing 22 weigh-ins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,802,1920,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-111022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}