{"id":865823,"date":"2026-08-23T19:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T19:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/865823\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T19:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T19:06:14","slug":"dana-white-addresses-namo-fazil-allegedly-being-attacked-before-dwcs-we-handled-it-behind-the-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/865823\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White addresses Namo Fazil allegedly being attacked before DWCS: \u2018We handled it behind the scenes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Dana White knows something controversial went down at the Meta Apex involving Dana White Contender Series hopeful Namo Fazil. But he\u2019s not sharing the details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This past week, Fazil made a shocking allegation that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/505886\/morning-report-namo-fazil-claims-he-was-accosted-by-15-chechens-before-contender-series-loss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he was accosted by a group of Chechens<\/a>\u2014\u201cThere were 15 of them,\u201d Fazil said\u2014prior to his fight against Kaik Brito this past Tuesday. According to Fazil, his attackers interrupted his weight cut, \u201cslapped\u201d him, leading to a scuffle that had to caught the attention of the police. Former UFC champion Khamzat Chimaev, a native of Chechnya, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/ufc\/506075\/khamzat-chimaev-seemingly-responds-to-namo-fazils-claims-of-being-jumped-prior-to-dwcs-loss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appeared to address Fazil\u2019s allegations,<\/a> writing the following on social media:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">I just want to say that if something happens between two men, they need to sort things out between them self with out letting media make fitna between nations. We all are brothers. Chechens and Kurds we are Muslims and we should stay united. I\u2019m not happy with the things that happened. I respect strong Kurdish people. When someone speaks bad then he should know there always will be consequences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">At the UFC Sacramento <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tofFShfJMsQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">post-fight presser<\/a>, White was asked about the story, and he gave a vague response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cYou guys have on idea how much shit goes on in this business behind the scenes and I said at the press conference that we had kind of a weird week here,\u201d White said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI didn\u2019t even talk about it,\u201d White said when asked if there would be any consequences for UFC fighter Baisangur Sursurkaev, who mocked Fazil after the incident and seemed to imply he was involved. \u201cYou guys wouldn\u2019t even know if he didn\u2019t talk about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cWe handled it behind the scenes and that\u2019s the business we\u2019re in. Lots of crazy shit happens every day in this business.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dana White knows something controversial went down at the Meta Apex involving Dana White Contender Series hopeful Namo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-865823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","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\/865823","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=865823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}