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Stay In Your Lane: Michael Bisping & RDA Own Dillon Danis On Twitter

Dillon Danis may have just won his first professional MMA fight, but he’s already making quite a lot of enemies. After attracting most of his attention as Conor McGregor’s friend and Brazilian jiu-jitsu coach, Danis made a successful debut at Bellator 198 last weekend after scoring a toehold sub on a 2-5 opponent. After the […]

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Dillon Danis may have just won his first professional MMA fight, but he’s already making quite a lot of enemies.

After attracting most of his attention as Conor McGregor’s friend and Brazilian jiu-jitsu coach, Danis made a successful debut at Bellator 198 last weekend after scoring a toehold sub on a 2-5 opponent.

After the victory, Danis decided to trash talk UFC middleweight Michael Bisping after hearing some unflattering things the Brit said about him.

Once Danis heard that Bisping had called him a “secondhand Conor McGregor,” the upstart called “The Count” out for his own fashion choices:

Of course “The Count” could help himself from responding, as the former middleweight champion is well known for his trash talk.

Bisping snapped back a day later and managed to put Danis is his place, to which former UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos inexplicably agreed:

Then Danis told RDA not to ‘speak out of turn,’ which prompted a hilarious response from the surging welterweight heading into his fight with fellow trash talker Colby Covington at UFC 225:

Finally, Danis clapped back by saying that dos Anjos should relaax because he would pull out of a fight if he were to play with Legos:

Danis certainly being groomed to be Bellator’s next big star, as the promotion but a lot of time and attention promoting the 24-year-old jiu-jitsu ace. Perhaps that’s gone to his head, especially when he’s picking fights with only recently-deposed UFC champions, or perhaps it’s a well-executed plan to get his name on the mouths of MMA fans everywhere.

It’s certainly working.

What do you think of Danis’ form of self-promotion? Does he indeed copy too much of Conor McGregor’s style, or is he riding the perfect gameplan to MMA stardom?

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Michael Bisping Goes Off On ‘Secondhand Conor’ Dillon Danis

Former UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping knows a thing or two about trash talking to sell a fight. The brash Briton has made a successful career out of doing just that, paving the way for current mic masters like Conor McGregor. While Bisping has always been complimentary of McGregor, but the same can’t be said […]

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Former UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping knows a thing or two about trash talking to sell a fight.

The brash Briton has made a successful career out of doing just that, paving the way for current mic masters like Conor McGregor.

While Bisping has always been complimentary of McGregor, but the same can’t be said for Dillon Danis. Danis, who’s McGregor’s Jiu-Jitsu coach and close friend, made his professional MMA debut over the weekend at Bellator 198 and seems to have mimicked McGregor’s style and tone while promoting himself as “the highest-paid fighter in Bellator” after only one fight.

Bisping excoriated Danis as a style-biter during a recent episode of his podcast, and didn’t hold back in classic Bisping fashion (via MMA Mania):

“Not only is he Conor McGregor’s jiu-jitsu coach, he’s seeming to try to morph and copy McGregor’s antics. Certainly his clothing. Conor does wear some fucking really nice, cool shit and Dillon Danis is like the poor, second-hand, overwashed, hand-me-down version because his clothes are fucking terrible.

“But, he’s trying to be Conor so hard, it’s laughable. He even said, ‘After this weekend, I will own Bellator.’ That sounds vaguely like a line where Conor said, ‘I will own boxing.’ He probably knows that this kind of behavior, as it did with me, encourages more people to want to see you get knocked out than win. But at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter. The bullshit that he’s doing, the shit that he’s spewing is working.”

Danis won his MMA debut with a toehold over an unheralded Kyle Walker on Saturday but didn’t appear to share his mentor’s striking acumen in any way, shape, or form.

Walker tagged Danis at will before the submission ace got the fight to the ground, and from then it was all over, but it seems that Danis has a ton of work to do on his all-around game.

Do you agree with Bisping’s assessment of Danis?

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Biggest Winners & Losers From Bellator 198

In the main event of last night’s (Sat., April 28, 2018) Bellator 198, Fedor Emelianenko returned to run through former UFC champion Frank Mir in 48 seconds (watch highlights here) on Saturday night, igniting the Chicago crowd into a frenzy. ‘The Last Emperor’ hadn’t won a big fight like this on North American soil since knocking […]

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In the main event of last night’s (Sat., April 28, 2018) Bellator 198, Fedor Emelianenko returned to run through former UFC champion Frank Mir in 48 seconds (watch highlights here) on Saturday night, igniting the Chicago crowd into a frenzy.

‘The Last Emperor’ hadn’t won a big fight like this on North American soil since knocking out Brett Rogers back in Strikeforce in late 2009, so it had been some time for Fedor fans, and this had been a long time coming.

The rest of Bellator 198’s main card featured all finishes, with the winners looking amazing and the losers looking not so great. Let’s break down the biggest winners and losers from last night’s card in Rosemont, Illinois.

Biggest Winners:

Fedor Emelianenko

Fedor turned back the clock in classic Fedor fashion on Saturday by turning Mir’s lights out in less than a minute.

The Russian shrugged off the drama of reports of the FBI tailing him and put away a former champion who had never been finished in less than a minute before.

It was a much-needed win for Emelianenko, who now will go on to face Chael Sonnen in the semifinal round of the heavyweight Grand Prix.

Fans had unfortunately gotten used to seeing ‘The Last Emperor’ getting thrashed on national television, from Fabricio Werdum baiting him into his guard for a quick submission to Dan Henderson and Matt Mitrione shutting his lights out in the first round.

But in each of those knockout losses, Emelianenko had his man hurt first if not just as badly, scoring a rare double knockdown against Mitrione and trading concussive blows with Henderson until one of them went out.

So for now, Fedor is back. And that’s good news for Bellator and MMA as a whole.

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BJJ Champ: Conor McGregor Will KO Eddie Alvarez Cold

Hoping to become the first champion to hold belts in separate divisions at the same time, Conor McGregor faces Eddie Alvarez at UFC 205. The November 12 pay-per-view from Madison Square Garden, New York will be a historic event. The first card in the Big Apple will see three titles on the line, but the

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Hoping to become the first champion to hold belts in separate divisions at the same time, Conor McGregor faces Eddie Alvarez at UFC 205. The November 12 pay-per-view from Madison Square Garden, New York will be a historic event. The first card in the Big Apple will see three titles on the line, but the main event has everyone buzzing the most. ‘The Silent Assassin’ looked incredible in his victory over Rafael dos Anjos. The Brazilian was on track to become one of the greats at 155 pounds, but Alvarez stopped ‘RDA’ with a brutal first round flurry this past July.

Wrestling and submissions could be a big factor in this fight. We’ve seen ‘The Notorious’ finished by grapplers in the past, and of course those power punches of Alvarez are extremely potent. In preparation for his second fight with Nate Diaz, McGregor enlisted the help of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu star Dillon Danis. The multiple world title winning BJJ ace remains working with ‘The Notorious,’ and made an interesting prediction for his upcoming UFC 205 battle.

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Danis Predicts KO

Via BloodyElbow.com, BJJ star Dillon Danis predicted a harsh ending for Eddie Alvarez’s first title defense. Contrary to popular belief, Danis says Conor McGregor will outstrike Alvarez even a close range.

“I’m here for him. We help each other. I wouldn’t say I’m just helping him because he also helps me a lot. My mind – everything. We’re a good tag-team, I think. He’s my brother from Ireland. I have my brothers back home in New York and now I have my brothers here too,”

“Conor is going to knock him out cold. As John Kavanagh would say, Conor could knock someone out in a phone booth so if Eddie tries to get close he’s going to get lit up. We’re ready for everything.”

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Danis/Diaz

The Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt also got himself in the conversation of Nate Diaz recently. Danis stated he wanted to face Nate Diaz in his first UFC fight, of which there’s been a fair amount of talk about. It seems training with Conor McGregor has rubbed off on Danis, who is a student of Marcelo Garcia, and of the lineage started by Mitsuyo Maeda.

What do you make of Danis’ prediction for the UFC 205 main event?

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