Late last month we had a chance to read about Dillon Danis and his clash with bouncers at a nightclub. Bellator’s fighter was eventually arrested, and a video was circulating on the Internet in which the BJJ master tapped on the choking off one of the bouncers in that bar.

The 28-year-old fighter was a guest on the latest edition of the MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani and was given the opportunity to tell his side of the story. Danis claims he was just trying to have fun at his friend’s wedding.

”I thought the post-wedding party would last all night, but it ended at 10 pm. We went to town and planned to go to Manhattan. However, one of the friends asked us to stop at a bar that was on the way because there were a lot of his family members there. We agreed to it, but that place was the most sh**** place you’ve ever seen. There were literally three people inside. “

By the way, Dillon Danis underwent a complete knee reconstruction in March, and the operation lasted seven hours. Bellator’s fighter is still in the recovery phase and is using crutches.

”I was on crutches until that day. However, because of weddings and photos, I am allowed not to use crutches, but only if I am standing, not if I am walking.” Danis explained.

The American fighter then explained that he had certain problems at the entrance. The person reviewing the documents asked him to show the identification document, but Danis did not have his wallet. The bouncer who eventually forced Danis to tap into his version of the story said Danis was trying to prove who he was via Google.

”You know when you walk in a suit tailored for you, and you have a wallet in your pocket. It doesn’t look good in the pictures. It’s funny that this guy says I ‘googled’ myself to prove to him who I am. I showed him proof of my age and passport, as well as a vaccination card. I told him I didn’t have a wallet because we took pictures all day.” the MMA fighter replied to the bouncer’s claims.

So the problem was already at the entrance to the bar, but Dillon claims that it all started with an argument between two guys in front of the said bar.

“It simply came to our notice then. I am not allowed to move (without crutches) and therefore I stood to the side. I would go home, but in places like that, you can’t call Uber because it takes them an hour to get there. So I stopped there because I wasn’t allowed to walk, and that’s when these guys got into a conflict. A lot of waiters then came out and I swear you were surrounded by about nine people. They were very selfish and tried to fight with me. I told them not to touch me and there would be no problem. One of the guys was constantly tapping my head and wondering what would happen if he touched me after all. I begged him to stop and I explained how I had come to have fun. He still kept tapping on my forehead and then a fight ensued” said Bellator’s fighter.

Danis explained how someone jumped on his back and told him he had been arrested. The BJJ master thought he was indeed a police officer and did not want to use physical force against the police officer. Still, it turned out that the person on his back was a bouncer, not a cop.

“He is in trouble because he pretended to be a police officer and all that will go to court. We’ll take care of it. He is not even the guy who touched me, he was not even involved in that conflict” Dillon explained.

Danis adds that he was quickly released from custody into which he was taken by real police officers.

”All the cops were on my side, to be honest with you. I was in the cell for 20 minutes and then the policeman took us to another party” Dillon Danis concluded his side of the story.

The former Strikeforce and UFC champion, Judo bronze medalist, MMA celebrity, and WWE star Ronda Rousey (34) gave birth to her first child yesterday – a baby girl. Rousey and her husband, MMA fighter Travis Browne (39) have named their daughter La’akea Makalapuaokalanipo Browne. 

Rousey’s post showcase her daughter underneath her shirt in one photo, and the child’s hand on top of Travis’ arm on another. She captioned the post with just the name of the child. 

Browne posted the same photos, captioning them “Welcome to this world La’akea Makalapuaokalanipō Browne. You are so incredibly loved!” Travis has two other children from a previous marriage.

 

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The pair got married in 2017 in Hawaii, where Browne is originally from. This also explains the Hawaiian name of their firstborn child. 

In a previous post, Rousey announced that she was eager for the birth of her child by writing “I cannot wait to meet this baby-to see what she’s like, how’s she’s uniquely her, how she’s like me and her dad. I’m dying to see the color of her eyes,” she wrote at the time. “What’s her laugh gonna sound like? When she clears her throat is she gonna do it [the] same way me and my mom do?”

We wish Rousey and Brown and little La’akea all the luck in the world!

Last week, an incident involving Dillon Danis was included in various martial arts events. The famous fighter, if we can call him that at all, given his references, was arrested while trying to enter a nightclub in New Jersey, and shortly after the first news, a video appeared in which the club’s security guard caught him choking. It is definitely worth noting how Danis tapped that way.

However, so far it was not known how it all happened, or why it was necessary to use force on Danis. Until Al Iaquinta came to the said security guard, called “Chance”, and interviewed him within an episode of his podcast.

The situation was that Danis tried to enter the club, but the rules are the same for everyone. Everyone must show an identity document to prove that he is older than 21 years. Danis did not have or did not intend to show it. The security guard told me what happened then.

“I apologized to him and said he couldn’t come in if he didn’t show me my ID. Then he asked me if I knew who he was. Once again I apologized to him, said I didn’t know and that I needed an ID. Then he googled his name and show me, and I just told him it was still not an identification document. I need a driver’s license, a passport, anything through which I can know how old he is. Then he became angry and aggressive because I didn’t know who he was”, said the security guard, continuing:

“After that, he started hitting me. It wasn’t a very good shot. He tried and missed, after which I grabbed him around the neck and knocked him to the floor. When I do, I usually suffocate a man for a second or two before he realizes the situation in which “In the video, you can see him tapping and then I asked him if he was okay. He then gave me a thumbs up, so I pressed him around my body and held him until the cops came and took over the situation.”

As far as we know, Danis spent the night at the police station and there should be no additional penalties for him. Probably enough punishment for him is that the cameras captured the footage in which the janitor choked him to tap. Let’s not forget, Danis considers himself the best grappler in the world, so he challenged many much harder and bigger fighters than himself to the match. If so, the physical superiority of this steward should not play any role.

https://youtu.be/8ZhxWf7HB-4

We’ve already written about how Dillon Danis ran into trouble last weekend while going out to a nightclub in New Jersey. Although it is not known what the exact reason was, the 28-year-old fighter was detained by the police and forcibly taken out of the club where he was.

At least that is what the video that originally appeared and that we have already uploaded on our portal told us. But now an earlier one has emerged, in which we can see how Danis had his first clash with the police within the club. In short, footage has surfaced where this ground fight master taps while he is inside the club security guard’s choke.

https://youtu.be/8ZhxWf7HB-4

Of course, this is a rather unenviable position for someone with his references and summary. The mitigating circumstances might be the alcohol he brought in, as well as the fact that the security guard is bigger than him, but it is certainly unusual to see someone like that where he finds himself in the mentioned situation within a street fight. Unfortunately, we do not know how the clash took place, as it is still unknown why Danis was detained by the police. It is only known that he was accused of misconduct but without further details.

Danis is a black BJJ belt and for a long time the head partner and sparring partner of Conor McGregor. He also started his MMA career, signing a contract with Bellator. In their arena, he made two appearances against fighters of lower qualitative rank, both times recording a victory. But now it has been more than two years since “El Jefe” last fought.

In the meantime, Danis became “famous” for various name-calling of different fighters and shooting with them. Interestingly, the man who called him, Sean Strickland, did not respond. Perhaps the UFC fighter’s statement that he was ready to kill him still sounded too serious for him to light a fire.

The 44-year-old Russian fighter was not overly eloquent about the importance of ring girls in sports.

One of the greatest MMA fighters in history Fedor Emelianenko is the last in a series of MMA faces to touch the ring girls theme. It all started at the end of August when Khabib Nurmagomedov said at a press conference that he considered them the most useless people in martial arts and that he absolutely did not see their meaning.

Some of the UFC’s Octagon girls, such as Arianny Celeste, and Russian boxer Angelina Semenova, told the Dagestanian that it was the 21st century and to leave the sexism he was taught in the Dagestani hills, were announced in turn. A few days ago, UFC flies champion Valentine Shevchenko defended the ring girls, explaining that ring girls are a tradition and have been present in martial arts since the beginning.

Fedor Emelianenko is somewhere in between. The ring girls do not pose a particular hindrance to him nor has he expressed an opinion to remove them from the sport, but he has made some remarks on their way of dressing.

” Those girls carry signs and show what the round is. The only thing that needs to be changed is that they should dress more decently, ” Fedor said, and when asked by reporters who asked for a more extensive answer, ” Last Emperor ” said

“I have enough problems and affairs in my team and family so I don’t need to fill my head with that nonsense.”

One of the pioneers and greats of this sport obviously does not see any significance in the discussion about ring girls, and that is how he approached it in his review. Khabib Nurmagomedov raised a lot of dust with his statements, and it seems that in the coming period we will hear the opinions of several other fighters and famous MMA faces.