Massive brawl breaks out at UFC 322 as members of Team Khabib and Dillon Danis scrap cageside
Things got ugly in New York just before the start of the pay-per-view
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The action at Saturday's UFC 322 from Madison Square Garden in New York City was not confined to the Octagon. A wild brawl involving mixed martial artist Dillon Danis broke out near media row just as the pay-per-view main card was set to begin.
Danis appeared to exchange words with members of former UFC lightweight champion Islam Makhachev's team before the action turned physical. The action was caught by CBS Sports' Brian Campbell, who was cageside for the event.
Huge brawl breaks out in crowd at #UFC322 involving Dillon Danis, who is getting cuffed. pic.twitter.com/HOcx0y4qvd
— Brian Campbell (@BCampbell) November 16, 2025
UFC CEO Dana White said that he found out Danis had a ticket for the event right before the brawl broke out and realized the issue it would cause.
"They told me that Dillon Danis was here and he was moving around sitting in fighters' seats and not sitting in his own seat that he had a ticket [for], and they said 'do you want us to throw him out of here?'
"I said '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 and in the first five rows for Islam," White said. "And as soon as it broke out, I go 'f---, I know exactly what that is."
The brawl will no doubt bring to mind the wild scene that followed Khabib Nurmagomedov's win over Conor McGregor at UFC 229, when Nurmagomedov's team brawled with McGregor and his team at the conclusion of the fight.
"You will never see Dillon Danis at a UFC fight ever again," White said.
Danis converted from the grappling world to mixed martial arts, where he was seen as an elite prospect as he rattled off two quick submission wins under the Bellator banner between 2018 and 2019. Danis would not fight another professional fight until this past August when he fought for Misfits Fighting, a promotion founded by social media influencer KSI, and defeated Warren Spencer in just 15 seconds.
In between those fights, Danis lost an exhibition boxing match to social media influencer and WWE star Logan Paul in which Danis threw almost no punches before being disqualified for unsportsmanlike conduct.
White said he declined to press charges against Danis.
