Controversial fighter Dillon Danis was in attendance for Saturday’s UFC 322: Della Maddalena vs. Makhachev occasion at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis. Surprising nobody, Danis was concerned in a melee within the fighters’ part with members of Islam Makhachev and Khabib Nurmagomedov’s staff.
Video of the brawl rapidly surfaced on-line. Danis was faraway from the venue moments earlier than the principle card started.
MASSIVE BRAWL IN THE CROWD WITH DILLON DANIS pic.twitter.com/GKVpcrRYSU
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Danis and Staff Khabib have had a feud that dates again to 2018. Danis was one in every of Conor McGregor’s important coaching companions for his UFC 229 title combat in opposition to Nurmagomedov. The buildup to the occasion was intense. Earlier that yr, McGregor had his dolly throwing incident backstage at UFC 223 concentrating on Nurmagomedov.
After Nurmagomedov defeated McGregor, he jumped out of the octagon and attacked Danis within the crowd.
DILLON DANIS GETTING WALKED OUT OF THE ARENA😂😂😂 #UFC322 pic.twitter.com/6dJHk6lOUS
— Paul Jackson (@PaulJacksonMMA) November 16, 2025
After the UFC 322 melee, UFC CEO Dana White stated Danis won’t ever attend one other UFC occasion once more and blamed himself for the brawl occurring.
“I blame myself for that, really,” White stated in the course of the UFC 322 Submit-Battle Press Convention. “They got here again and instructed me proper earlier than I walked out for the principle card Dillon Danis was right here and is transferring round sitting in fighters’ seats and never sitting in his personal seat that he had. He had a ticket. And so they stated, ‘Would you like us to throw him out of right here?’ And I stated, he has a ticket?
“They instructed me, [Jorge] Masvidal stated he is going to f**ok him up on sight. I stated, effectively, the place’s Masvidal sitting? He stated, ‘He is six or seven rows away from Masvidal. I stated, effectively, if the man has a ticket let him sit in his seat and let him do what he is doing and keep watch over him.”
White hadn’t totally assessed the state of affairs. It wasn’t Masvidal that he needed to fear about Danis operating into.
“It by no means even crossed my thoughts, as silly as this might be, that the whole Muslim brotherhood was right here tonight within the first 5 rows for Islam,” White stated. “As quickly because it broke out, I used to be over on the opposite aspect and I’m going, f**ok. I do know precisely what that’s. I knew it.”
For White, Saturday’s incident was the final straw for Dillon Danis. The UFC CEO banned the Misfits Boxing MMA champ from ever attending a UFC occasion once more.
“You’ll by no means see Dillon Danis at a UFC combat ever once more,” stated White. “You will by no means see him at one other combat.”
White, and the UFC, declined to press costs in opposition to Danis. “I might have prevented this tonight and I tousled,” White concluded.
