Marcelo Garcia is not only one of grappling’s most accomplished competitors, he is also one of its best coaches. In a video recently released by grappling’s premier documentarian Stuart Cooper, we see a full rolling session between Garcia and his former student Dillon Danis. Cooper clarified via YouTube comment that
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The beef between BJJ black belt Dillon Danis and boxing superstar Ryan Garcia continues to escalate. In a recent Instagram live video, Danis and Garcia traded trash talk and talked about the specifics of a potential fight. To be clear, no fight of any kind is yet booked, but both
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On Saturday, January 23, Conor McGregor will return to UFC action when he squares off with Dustin Poirier in the main event of UFC 257. McGregor is certainly MMA’s biggest star, and he has long been associated with one of the grappling world’s most prominent (and often controversial) figures, Dillon
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Dillon Danis has just revealed on Instagram that he has come out the other side of an incredibly lengthy session of reconstructive surgery on his knee. Surprisingly, this has come after he has only recently been seen on crutches after surgery on his right knee to repair a damage to
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As the grappling world heard the news yesterday that controversial athlete Dillon Danis was dropping out of ADCC, many had something to say. Never shy to voice his opinion, Ben Askren weighed in with a tweet, stating Dillon Danis was dropping out due to “sore knee caps”: Sore knee caps
Read more(This article is part of our week of ADCC coverage. To get live results, play by play, and commentary, we’ll have a live updates article running all weekend) Another day, another pull-out. It wouldn’t be ADCC week without some last minute withdrawals and today’s loss is Dillon Danis. It isn’t
Read moreDespite having had less fights than most people getting their first UFC or Bellator call-up, Dillon Danis is slowly becoming a popular name in MMA thanks to his brash persona and unrelenting trash-talk. Everybody knows that sometimes trash talk backfires (Just ask Ben Askren if you don’t believe me) but
Read moreI’ll preface this by making it clear that I’m not in any way disparaging Danis’ actual skills or competitive career. He isn’t going to end up in the Jiu-Jitsu hall of fame but he has earned some solid wins over the likes of AJ Agazarm, Josh Hinger and Jackson Souza.
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Long-time submission grappling and MMA veteran Jake Shields is set to return to action when he faces Kyle Chambers on the main card of Submission Underground (SUG) 22. The event is scheduled for April 25. The bout was announced via the SUG Instagram. View this post on Instagram A post
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For what feels like the hundredth time, (now former) UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov has officially retired from MMA. Naturally, Conor McGregor couldn’t let him do that without speaking up. On Thursday, Nurmagomedov confirmed what he has been saying since his October 2020 win over Justin Gaethje: he is officially
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