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Dillon Danis: Conor Could Beat Khabib in Grappling Match

It probably would come as no surprise that friend and training partner of Conor McGregor Dillon Danis believes that Conor McGregor is going to defeat Khabib Nurmagomedov in the UFC 229 main event. What may come as a surprise, however, even by Danis sta…

It probably would come as no surprise that friend and training partner of Conor McGregor Dillon Danis believes that Conor McGregor is going to defeat Khabib Nurmagomedov in the UFC 229 main event. What may come as a surprise, however, even by Danis standards, is his statement of McGregor’s grappling potential if he were pitted […]

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Michael Chandler Addresses Being Critical of ‘Wannabe Conor McGregor’ Dillon Danis

Former Bellator lightweight champion Michael Chandler has addressed his criticism of Dillon Danis. Back at Bellator NYC last June, Chandler lost his lightweight title to Brent Primus via TKO due to an injury. Chandler was expected to challenge Primus f…

Former Bellator lightweight champion Michael Chandler has addressed his criticism of Dillon Danis. Back at Bellator NYC last June, Chandler lost his lightweight title to Brent Primus via TKO due to an injury. Chandler was expected to challenge Primus for the title at Bellator 197. However, Primus pulled out of the fight citing a knee […]

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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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UFC Title Contender: Everyone Trying To Be Like Conor McGregor Is ‘Fronting’

The landscape of the UFC featherweight division has changed drastically since Conor McGregor absconded from the 145-pound weight class. Most notably, the ascension of Max Holloway and Brian Ortega through the featherweight ranks has reinvigorated a weight class that had been under McGregor’s control prior to the Irishman’s departure for lightweight and catchweight glory, and […]

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The landscape of the UFC featherweight division has changed drastically since Conor McGregor absconded from the 145-pound weight class.

Most notably, the ascension of Max Holloway and Brian Ortega through the featherweight ranks has reinvigorated a weight class that had been under McGregor’s control prior to the Irishman’s departure for lightweight and catchweight glory, and now, boxing and legal issues due to his April 5 Brooklyn arrest.

However, that won’t stop fighters from understandably imitating his style, and Ortega has noticed a slew of McGregor imitators in “The Notorious’” absence. During a recent media appearance, the 27-year-old contender called them out for their unoriginality (via MMA Junkie):

“There’s only one Conor. Everybody who’s tried to be like Conor, you can tell they’re just fronting.

“You can easily see, you can tell by the way the go in there – you’re just like, ‘Come on. Shut up.’”

“For me, I’m just me. That’s what I realized the best thing to be is. When I talk to people, they’re like, especially getting into the sport, (they’re like), ‘Oh, you’ve got to be a character. You’ve got to be this.’ And my coach told – and I don’t know if I can cuss or not – but he goes, ‘F-ck that.’ He’s like, ‘Just be you, bro. You don’t have to lie on the thing. You don’t have to pretend. You don’t have to remember some thing you made up before.’ He goes, ‘Just be you, and you can’t go wrong with being you.’

“So that’s what we did, and I’m happy I stuck to it, man. Because I’m just me. If I ever get pissed off, I’m legitimately pissed off. So far it hasn’t happened.”

UFC President Dana White has often told the press that fighters should look to emulate McGregor’s style of self-promotion, which helps to explain the influx of characters like Colby Covington and Dillon Danis, who seem to be reading directly from the Conor McGregor playbook.

For Ortega, it’s his performances that do the promotion, not the trash talk. Ortega became the first man to ever knock out the ever-durable Frankie Edgar at UFC 222 in March.

Do you agree with Ortega’s assessment of McGregor imitators flooding the UFC and MMA in general?

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Dillon Danis Responds To Al Iaquinta’s Unintentionally Hilarious Callout

Say what you will about Bellator prospect Dillon Danis, but he knows how to get people talking. Three days after a submission victory over a 2-5 late replacement in his MMA debut at Bellator 198, a host of prominent MMA personalities including Michael Chandler, Ben Askren, and Michael Bisping have weighed in with their seething […]

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Say what you will about Bellator prospect Dillon Danis, but he knows how to get people talking.

Three days after a submission victory over a 2-5 late replacement in his MMA debut at Bellator 198, a host of prominent MMA personalities including Michael Chandler, Ben Askren, and Michael Bisping have weighed in with their seething assessments of Danis’ performance and/or personality.

While almost none of it has been positive, it’s safe to say Danis has been able to get the mixed martial arts world focused on him during a slow week without a UFC event to build to this weekend.

And last night, recent UFC title contender Al Iaquinta hopped into the mix with a Tweet from Costa Rica, saying he hoped Chandler worked Danis and calling him a ‘putts (sic)’:

Never one to deny a chance to hype himself up more, Danis quickly responded with a short but sweet reply:

Indeed haters will hate, and Danis has a growing flock of them in high places after just one MMA fight against a sub-.500 opponent.

Love him or hate him – and it appears most hate him – the touted Brazilian jiu-jitsu wiz’s scope of attention and star power is growing each day, something that could also be said about the meteoric rise of his good friend and training partner, Conor McGregor.

If his overall fighting skills can ever match the heat he incites out of the cage, look out.

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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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