Many name him John Pork, however it was the meat with Dillon Danis that grabbed headlines from over the weekend, and the previous is giving their aspect of the story.
The person often known as Magomed Zaynukov, aka John Pork, was at Madison Sq. Backyard in assist of his teammate Islam Makhachev, in search of the purpose of changing into a two-division UFC titleholder. The proximity of Danis to Zaynukov and different Dagestan combatants within the cageside assigned seating areas for the cardboard stoked the long-existing intensities between the McGregor and Nurmagomedov camps, with Dillon Danis and Magomed Zaynukov having historic ties to these teams, respectively.
The UFC 322 brawl grew to become a giant story popping out of the UFC’s pay-per-view providing, with UFC figurehead Dana White mentioning how Danis would now not be invited to subsequent UFC occasions.
One other angle of the Dillon Danis vs. Crew Islam brawl simply dropped exhibiting the way it began
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Whereas talking to Ushatayka, Zaynukov stated [via MMA Fighting],
“He has to reply for all the pieces that’s stated, and he allowed himself to do such issues, posted, threw up all types of incomprehensible posts. There was no time to consider something. I flew in and hit him from the precise; he fell, after which all of it went on and on from there. … Ultimately, we had been kicked out. It will have been higher if we had watched the combat at dwelling within the lodge.”
John Pork and the Dillon Danis saga of UFC 322
Although John Pork didn’t get into specifics of what the Misfits MMA champion has ever carried out to him, Zaynukov acknowledged [via MMA Fighting],
“I didn’t know him in any respect. I didn’t even know that he can be within the enviornment. I didn’t assume he’d have the braveness to come back right here like this. Perhaps he didn’t have sufficient consideration and wished some hype. For some folks, it’s in all probability simply hype. But it surely’s not for us. It’s not hype. We appear to have totally different ideas… He wrote about Islam, about Khabib. That is my crew, these are my brothers, and I’m at all times with them.”
This can be a bitter feud that goes again for near a decade now, and the residual tensions are nonetheless being felt right this moment, clearly.
