{"id":308162,"date":"2025-11-26T13:15:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/308162\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T13:15:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:15:41","slug":"nypd-investigation-underway-into-dillon-danis-team-makhachev-brawl-at-ufc-322","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/308162\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD: Investigation underway into Dillon Danis\/Team Makhachev brawl at UFC 322"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dillon Danis and several members of Islam Makhachev\u2019s team could face charges from the NYPD stemming from a crowd brawl at UFC 322.<\/p>\n<p>UFC CEO Dana White revealed at the UFC 322 press conference that Dillon Danis was permanently banned from all future UFC events after his involvement in a viral brawl cageside with members of Islam Makhachev\u2019s team. The incident occurred after months of bad blood brewing between Danis, Makhachev, and their respective sides on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Danis and several members of Makhachev\u2019s team were escorted out of Madison Square Garden immediately following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Any hope of Danis signing with the UFC is now off the table following the UFC 322 events. Even worse for Danis, and those from Makhachev\u2019s team involved in the fight, the New York City Police Department is actively investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Eric Adams speaks after viral brawl at UFC 322 involving Dillon Danis<\/p>\n<p>In a recent post to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ericadamsfornyc\/status\/1993108720201744771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1993108720201744771%7Ctwgr%5E9fd54967565bf98d15632096b75759b2bb64c5f9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mmafighting.com%2Fufc%2F458557%2Fnyc-mayor-eric-adams-promises-to-punish-fighters-involved-in-ufc-322-brawl-completely-unacceptable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">X<\/a>, New York City mayor Eric Adams promised legal action against Danis and those involved in the viral incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese assaults at Madison Square Garden are completely unacceptable,\u201d Adams said in a statement. \u201cThe NYPD is already conducting a full investigation, and everyone responsible will be held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, it\u2019s uncertain if everyone involved in the brawl was an active fighter, although some of those seen in the above footage aren\u2019t currently signed to the UFC roster. Adams\u2019s mayoral term is set to come to an end in January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/dana-white\/dana-white-takes-responsibility-for-ufc-322-brawl-involving-dillon-danis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">White and the UFC brass took responsibility<\/a> for the incident after learning Danis attended the event out of his own pocket.<\/p>\n<p>Danis, a longtime training partner and friend of Conor McGregor\u2019s, is 3-0 in his professional MMA career. He returned to MMA earlier this year in Misfits, earning a first-round submission against Warren Spencer.<\/p>\n<p>Danis is set to return to the cage on December 22nd against Anthony Taylor. It\u2019s uncertain if the NYPD\u2019s ongoing investigation will impact his status for the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dillon Danis and several members of Islam Makhachev\u2019s team could face charges from the NYPD stemming from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,10987,641,23591,638,82,640,31121],"class_list":["post-308162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dillon-danis","tag-fighting","tag-islam-makhachev","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-322"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}