Dillon Danis has had a few run-ins with MMA and social media stars of late. One of particular note, considering his own close friendship with Conor McGregor, was one with McGregor’s arch-nemesis, Nate Diaz. Danis and Diaz got into a physical altercation at UFC 281, with Danis telling his side of the story in a recent appearance on The MMA Hour.
“That’s a whole different story that didn’t get on camera. So we went out to go get a couple beers on the top. It was me and a couple friends, Craig Jones actually, and I see them. I see that guy he hangs out with, I don’t know his name, the smaller guy [Chris Avila], and I knew like, this dude is just like Anthony Taylor, they’re looking for f****** the most attention that they can get. He’s with Nate and then they’re coming, they’re coming, and I’m like, alright, this is going to be whatever.
Dillon Danis Shares His Side of Nate Diaz Incident
So they come and Nate is just looking at me and I’m like, ‘What’s up?’ And then his boy is like, ‘F*** you, man.’ Inside the arena, and I don’t know what the f*** he was saying. They don’t really make sense. They’re all kind of, like, punch drunk. So I have no idea what he was saying.”
Danis then mumbled inaudibly, seemingly doing an impression of Diaz. “And he just throws his beer on me. Actually, it was a tequila and soda, which wasn’t that bad. So then I took my beer and I hit him in the face with it and everybody started brawling and the cops got involved.”
“It was funny because one of my friends slipped on the beer, his friend slipped, it was going back and forth, and Nate was like, trying to separate it.” It seemed like the end of things until Diaz found Danis outside.
“The night is over and we go outside … I’m talking to Audie [Attar], my back is turned towards the subway station and I’m talking to Audie, and then I get hit with an empty Snapple bottle or something.
So in my head I’m like, ‘This is some hecklers.’ Because there was a bunch of fans out there from the UFC, so I was like, ‘This is some guy heckling me or some homeless guy,’ and I turn around and it’s Nate and he’s just screaming and doing s***, and Audie is flipping out because his kids are there.”
It might turn out well for Danis, however, as Nate Diaz seemingly wants to face Danis in the ring. “Apparently he wants to have a boxing match with me, after the KSI [match]. One-hundred percent, MMA or boxing.”
