{"id":288297,"date":"2025-11-16T13:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T13:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/288297\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T13:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T13:10:08","slug":"dana-white-bans-dillon-danis-after-ufc-322-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/288297\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White Bans Dillon Danis After UFC 322 Brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">During the UFC 322 post-fight press conference (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-press-conference-video\/403068\/watch-ufc-322-post-fight-press-conference-live-stream-video-jack-della-maddalena-makhachev-results-espn-ppv-new-york-dana-white\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch here<\/a>), Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) CEO Dana White revealed the chaos was actually his fault \u2014 at least in his eyes \u2014 because he didn\u2019t realize who was seated near whom (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2023\/12\/17\/24004753\/asshole-dana-white-blame-for-sean-strickland-and-dricus-du-plessis-brawl-ufc-296-how-fucking-stupid\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it has happened before<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI blame myself for that, actually,\u201d White told reporters. \u201cThey came back and told me right before I walked out for the main card that Dillon Danis was here and he\u2019s moving around, sitting in other fighters\u2019 seats and not sitting in his own seat. They asked if they wanted me to throw him out\u2026 I asked if he had a ticket, and they said yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Security then warned White that Jorge Masvidal had vowed to \u201cf\u2014k him up on sight,\u201d prompting White to ask where Masvidal was seated. \u201cThey said he was six or seven rows away,\u201d White explained. \u201cI said if the guy has a ticket, let him sit in his seat and do what he\u2019s doing \u2014 but keep an eye on him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That\u2019s when the oversight hit him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt never even crossed my mind \u2014 as stupid as it could be \u2014 that the entire Muslim Brotherhood was here tonight in the first five rows for Islam,\u201d White said. \u201cAs soon as it broke out, I was like, \u2018F\u2014k, I know exactly what that is.\u2019 You will never see Dillon Danis at a UFC fight ever again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">White added that he was asked whether he wanted to press charges, but declined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For complete UFC 322 results and play-by-play, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-322-jack-della-vs-islam-makhachev-start-time-full-results-espn-mma\/401359\/ufc-322-results-highlights-della-maddalena-vs-makhachev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the UFC 322 post-fight press conference (watch here), Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) CEO Dana White revealed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,162126,40762,785,139415,85,162125,1396,6656],"class_list":{"0":"post-288297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-jack-della-vs-islam-start-time","12":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","13":"tag-mma","14":"tag-preview-and-live-results","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc-322-fight-card","17":"tag-ufc-news","18":"tag-ufc-results"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288297","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=288297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}