Dillon Danis is banned from attending future UFC events after he got into a brawl with members of Islam Makhachev’s team at UFC 322 but bantamweight contender Umar Nurmagomedov says the always outspoken grappler actually got off easy that night.
The chaos ensued after Danis and members of Makhachev’s team started throwing punches in the middle of Madison Square Garden. Danis has gone after that team through interviews and social media for several years, especially after his friend Conor McGregor engaged
in a heated rivalry with Khabib Nurmagomedov.
Danis already felt that wrath before when Nurmagomedov tapped out McGregor in 2018 and then leapt over the cage to go after the former grappling champion as a huge melee erupted both inside and outside the octagon. The latest brawl ended with Danis being ejected from Madison Square Garden but Umar Nurmagomedov, who was in attendance when the brawl broke out at UFC 322, says he definitely had it coming to him.
“I was in the first row and I was looking for what was happening,” Nurmagomedov told Complex. “I was expecting that because this guy talks too much. He talks about religion, he talks about families, a lot of things, you know? It’s not good. You can’t be that person and not expecting that. People are going to smash you.”
While it appeared at the time that everybody walked away unscathed, Danis later dropped out of a scheduled fight with Misfits after he was deemed medically unfit to compete. Danis then followed that up by delaying a scheduled deposition in an ongoing lawsuit filed against him by Nina Agdal — Logan Paul’s wife — by claiming he suffered a “severe concussion” during that beatdown at UFC 322.
But if a head injury is all he got, Nurmagomedov says he wishes things went much worse for Danis that night in New York.
“Not enough,” Nurmagomedov said about the beatdown. “He have to be broken, some [broken] legs, arms. He has to be in the hospital. Like the middle of life [or death]. He deserves it.”
It’s safe to say by that statement that the bad blood between Team Nurmagomedov and Danis isn’t ending any time soon.
