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Former UFC middleweight champion, color commentator, and Hall of Fame inductee, Michael Bisping has given his thoughts on the recent arrest of Bellator MMA welterweight, Dillon Danis, claiming that the New Jersey native is a “broke version of Conor McGregor“, as well as requesting that he leave the mixed martial arts community. 

Footage emerged last week which appeared to show former Marcelo Garcia student, Danis attempted to struggle and kick away from responding law enforcement officers outside the Beachcomber Bar and Grill in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, before he was escorted to a police cruiser and brought into custody.

Whilst a mugshot footage surfaced, which appeared to feature Danis, sporting blonde hair as well as a knee brace on the outside of his right pant leg, previous footage also made its way to social media which appears to show Danis involved in an altercation with a security guard from the venue, before he has his back taken, as the security guard establishes hooks and locks up a rear-naked choke, before Danis appears to tap soon thereafter.

Danis is expected back in court on the 19. of this month, with the responding officer alleging that the grappler “created a disturbance“.

For the security guard, decorated Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu player, Gordon Ryan has reached out to him, offering him front row seats to attend ADDC Submission Wrestling World Championship next September, while UFC alum and grappling standout, Tom DeBlass has invited him to train at his academy for the next year. 

Reflecting on Danis’ arrest and apparent subduing at the hands of the security guard, the aforenoted, Bisping called for the 28-year-old to leave the mixed martial arts community as well as describing him as a “broke version of Conor McGregor“.

“I can’t believe I’m talking about Dillon Danis, who I refer to as ‘Dildo Danis’ — which is a little immature, but it fits him perfectly,” Bisping said on his YouTube channel. “He’s a stain on mixed martial arts, and I wouldn’t normally give him the time of day,… the guy hardly ever fights. I think he’s had two fights for Bellator, he’s best known for being Conor McGregor’s number one coat rider, if you know what I mean. … Apparently he’s good at Jiu-Jitsu or whatever, I think he’s got plenty of losses in that world as well. And he just copies Conor’s whole schtick. He’s a very, very, very, very, poor man’s Conor McGregor. He’s like a broke version of Conor McGregor that’s lost all his money, he’s gone broke, he’s hit rock bottom. And that’s what you’re left with, that’s ‘Dildo Danis’.“

“Dillon Danis got choked out, unconscious, and given to the police, by a chocolatier,” Bisping continued. “Dillon Danis, please, forever hang your head in shame. Never come back to the MMA community, the MMA community does not want you around my friend. And it doesn’t seem like the Jiu-Jitsu community want you around either.“

Undefeated in his first two professional mixed martial arts appearances, Danis has been out of action since reconstructive knee surgery in March of last year, having featured in the training camp of the aforenoted, McGregor for the Dubliner’s UFC 246 main event with Donald Cerrone in January of that year. 

Former UFC lightweight champion, Rafael dos Anjos has been struck by injury woes — forcing him to remove himself from proceedings against lightweight rival, Islam Makhachev at UFC 267 on October 30. 

dos Anjos, who successfully returned to his lightweight stomping grounds back in November, recently underwent an arthroscopy procedure on meniscus in his knee, with a bout with flu, which required antibiotics to treat, prolonging his rehabilitation process and forcing him from an October bout with Makhachev. 

Per Dominance MMA manager, Ali Abdelaziz, who spoke with MMA Junkie reporter, John Morgan, his former client, dos Anjos has been removed from a bout with Makhachev — with the search for a short-notice replacement to keep his current client on the UFC 267 card underway.

Abdelaziz has identified two preferred opponents for his client to meet on short-notice; former interim lightweight champion, Tony Ferguson, as well as City Kickboxing ace, Dan Hooker — who turned in an impressive unanimous decision win over Nasrat Haqparast at UFC 266 on Saturday.

Speculation began to mount that the pairing between Makhachev and dos Anjos was in jeopardy for a third time, when the former called the latter a “chicken” on social media, alluding to the fact he had suffered another injury. Responding to the grappler, dos Anjos questioned why he would fake an injury, describing his setback as “terrible“.

Making a successful rebound to the lightweight limit in a November headliner last year, dos Anjos met with short-notice replacement, the now-retired, Paul Felder where he managed a one-sided split decision victory after Makhachev was forced from proceedings due to a staph infection. 

The two were booked to meet in a main card bout at UFC 254 in October last year as well, until former champion, dos Anjos tested positive for COVID-19 — ruling him from the clash.

In the time since, Makhachev has lodged a pair of dominant submission victories over both Drew Dober and American Top Team grappler, Thiago Moises, the second of which came in his headlining bow at UFC Vegas 31 in July.