Renowned mixed martial arts reporter Ariel Helwani has slammed the mainstream response to UFC President Dana White’s physical altercation with his wife. 2023 has opened on rough footing for MMA and the UFC. As well as former fighter Phil Baroni g…
Renowned mixed martial arts reporter Ariel Helwani has slammed the mainstream response to UFC President Dana White’s physical altercation with his wife. 2023 has opened on rough footing for MMA and the UFC. As well as former fighter Phil Baroni getting arrested for allegedly beating his girlfriend to death, one of the sport’s leading men…
MMA journalist Ariel Helwani feels Dana White has a lot to answer for with his family after being caught on video hitting his wife. White and his wife got into a physical altercation last weekend while celebrating New Year’s Eve at a party in Mex…
MMA journalist Ariel Helwani feels Dana White has a lot to answer for with his family after being caught on video hitting his wife. White and his wife got into a physical altercation last weekend while celebrating New Year’s Eve at a party in Mexico. A verbal argument turned into a physical one when his…
Ahead of his scheduled boxing matchup against UK rapper and professional boxing prospect, KSI, Bellator MMA welterweight grappler, Dillon Danis has hit out at mixed martial arts journalist, Ariel Helwani, branding him a “bully” and described the Canadian reporter as “weird” following their recent sitdown interview. Danis, who is scheduled to fight KSI on a […]
Ahead of his scheduled boxing matchup against UK rapper and professional boxing prospect, KSI, Bellator MMA welterweight grappler, Dillon Danis has hit out at mixed martial arts journalist, Ariel Helwani, branding him a “bully” and described the Canadian reporter as “weird” following their recent sitdown interview.
Danis, who is scheduled to fight KSI on a Misfits Boxing event in two weeks’ time, has yet to feature in mixed martial arts competition since June 2019, improving to 2-0 as a professional with an armbar win over Max Humphrey.
In the time since, the 29-year-old underwent multiple surgical procedures to address a catastrophic knee injury – the latter of which occured as he helped prepare former two-weight UFC champion, Conor McGregor for his January 2020 return fight against Donald Cerrone.
Dillon Danis fires barbs at MMA journalist, Ariel Helwani
Featuring during a recent interview with Canadian journalist, Helwani this month, Danis engaged in a hostile and agitated back-and-forth with the former, and has since branded him a “bully” and insinuated he was utilizing “estrogen replacement therapy”.
“He’s (Ariel Helwani) a bully, he doesn’t take criticism well,” Dillon Danis told Chael Sonnen during a recent interview. “ But the interview did the best numbers that he’s gotten all year, so right now, it’s the most viewed interview.”
“I feel like he’s just coming off as you know very hostile and very agitated,” Dillon Danis explained. “Yeah, he’s weird to gage, he’s a very weird kind of guy, like I can’t tell like after he wants to talk to me so I really can’t tell if he took it to heart. I didn’t take anything he said to heart, I mean like, I couldn’t, it just bounces right off me you know so I’m kind of used to it. Maybe’s he just not used to getting criticism to his face. … He was just like super upset, I don’t know. I heard he was on like estrogen, so like maybe he’s on estrogen – like a replacement therapy or something, he’s very emotional.”
In his first professional victory, Danis, 29, submitted Kyle Walker under the Scott Coker-led Bellator banner back in 2018.
UFC welterweight contender Geoff Neal feels fighters are compensated for interviews in the form of promotion. Neal will return to the UFC Octagon against the fast-rising Shavkat Rakhmonov at a January 14th UFC Fight Night event in Las Vegas. He’s…
UFC welterweight contender Geoff Neal feels fighters are compensated for interviews in the form of promotion. Neal will return to the UFC Octagon against the fast-rising Shavkat Rakhmonov at a January 14th UFC Fight Night event in Las Vegas. He’s looking to put Rakhmonov’s hype train to a halt and win his third consecutive fight….
Paddy Pimblett and his manager’s credibility has been called into question after podcast host True Geordie echoed Ariel Helwani’s recent claims. Pimblett defeated Jared Gordon via a unanimous decision in the UFC 282 co-main event last Satur…
Paddy Pimblett and his manager’s credibility has been called into question after podcast host True Geordie echoed Ariel Helwani’s recent claims. Pimblett defeated Jared Gordon via a unanimous decision in the UFC 282 co-main event last Saturday. Despite the majority of MMA fans and pundits feeling Gordon deserved the win, the three judges scoring the…
MMA journalist Ariel Helwani has responded after UFC lightweight prospect Paddy Pimblett doubled down on the rant he directed at the Canadian. This past weekend, UFC 282 went down from Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena. But despite the MMA leader closing…
MMA journalist Ariel Helwani has responded after UFC lightweight prospect Paddy Pimblett doubled down on the rant he directed at the Canadian. This past weekend, UFC 282 went down from Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena. But despite the MMA leader closing out its pay-per-view schedule for 2022 on Saturday, the biggest feud to hit the headlines…