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During the Nov. 22 event, Dillon Danis and members of Islam Makhachev’s team — including Magomed Zaynukov and Abubakar Nurmagomedov — were involved in a melee that apparently stemmed from a series of inflammatory posts by Danis on social media. The two parties were separated and Danis was escorted out of the venue, and no one was seriously injured as a result of the scuffle.
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UFC CEO Dana White later revealed that Danis would be banned from attending future events, but the promotion had no plans to press charges in regards to the incident. However, New York City mayor Eric Adams apparently sees things differently. In a recent statement on social media, Adams confirmed that the New York Police Department is investigating the brawl and that anyone involved will be “held accountable.”
Investigation Underway
“These assaults at Madison Square Garden are completely unacceptable,” Adams wrote on Twitter. “The NYPD is already conducting a full investigation, and everyone responsible will be held accountable.”
In the aftermath of the incident, White accepted the blame for the brawl by not identifying a potential conflict ahead of time.
“I blame myself for that actually,” White said at the UFC 322 post-fight press conference. “They came back and told me right before I walked out for the main card that Dillon Danis was here and he was moving around and sitting in fighters’ seats and not sitting in his own seat that he had a ticket. They said, ‘Do you want us to throw him out of here?’ I said, ‘He has a ticket?’ They said, ‘Yeah.’ They told me ‘[Jorge] Masvidal said he’s going to f—k him up on sight.’ I said, ‘Where’s Masvidal sitting?‘ Well he’s six or seven rows away from Masvidal. I said well if the guy has a ticket, let him sit in his seat and let him do what he’s doing and keep an eye on him.
“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 [Makhachev]. 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.”
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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