{"id":287067,"date":"2025-11-16T16:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/287067\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T16:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:16:10","slug":"white-danis-banned-from-ufc-events-after-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/287067\/","title":{"rendered":"White: Danis banned from UFC events after brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UFC has banned Dillon Danis from attending future events after he was involved in a brawl at UFC 322 on Saturday, CEO Dana White said.<\/p>\n

Danis got into a scuffle with several members of welterweight champion Islam Makhachev’s team while cageside at Madison Square Garden, just minutes before the main card started.<\/p>\n

MASSIVE BRAWL breaks out cageside at #UFC322<\/a> with Dillon Danis and others in the fighter section. <\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa5 @mikebohn<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/djgEcCdGRt<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 MMA Junkie (@MMAJunkie) November 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n

White said he declined to press charges but that Danis won’t attend another event.<\/p>\n

“You will never see Dillon Danis at a UFC fight ever again,” White said<\/a> at the postfight press conference.<\/p>\n

This was not the first time Danis, a former training partner of UFC star Conor McGregor, was involved in a melee at a UFC event. Danis was in McGregor’s corner in 2018 when he lost to Makhachev’s teammate Khabib Nurmagomedov in a blockbuster title fight. After the fight, Nurmagomedov infamously leapt over the Octagon and attacked McGregor’s corner, including Danis, leading to a brawl inside and outside the cage.<\/p>\n

White said he blames himself for letting Danis get into another fracas Saturday night.<\/p>\n

“It never even crossed my mind – as stupid as this could be – that the entire Muslim brotherhood was here tonight in the first five rows for Islam,” White said. “As soon as it broke out, I was over on the other side, and I go, ‘F–k. I know exactly what that is.’ I knew it.”<\/p>\n