Danis Barred From Cornering McGregor At UFC 246

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If Dillon Danis wants to be in his jiu jitsu student Conor McGregor’s corner at UFC 246, he’s gonna have to finally pay the piper.

According to Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports, Danis still hasn’t forked over the $7500 fine he received from the Nevada State Athletic Commission for his part in the UFC 229 post-fight brawl between the McGregor and Nurmagomedov clans.

We still think it’s a bit whack that the guy has to pay anything … he basically got jumped by Khabib out of nowhere and did nothing but defend himself. Reports that he taunted the Dagestani wrestler into taking an eagle leap from the cage were never substantiated, so why Danis got dinged still isn’t really clear. Was the NSAC expecting him to show a Gandhi level of pacifism in the face of a direct attack?

Regardless, Nevada wants their money.

”According to [NSAC head] Bob Bennett, Dillon Danis owes state of Nevada, NOT the athletic commission, $7,500 from his punishment in the McGregor / Khabib brawl at UFC 229,” Iole tweeted. “He will not be allowed to work The Notorious’ corner at UFC 246 until he pays the fine.”

Danis recently recounted the incident in an interview with MMA’s equivalent to Nardwuar, The Schmo.

“No, he didn’t connect,” Danis said when asked if Khabib managed to hit him (via MMA Junkie). “You know what’s funny? When he jumped over the thing, and he had his feet and his arms up, so like, he didn’t really know what he was going to hit me with. So I was like am I going to get kicked right now or punched? I kind of just blocked then I hit him with a right hand. And then I remember him coming forward and I was uppercutting him, and then he was just trying to run away, and I was trying to grab his head.”

“It was just a whole mayhem and then everybody was getting punched, and cops were going all over the place, and he didn’t touch me at all. I remember hitting him with a good amount of shots, and then I just remember him trying to pull away and run away from me, and I was trying to cup his head and uppercut him. But it was mayhem. Everything happened so fast.”