Conor McGregor's friend Dillon Danis slapped with LIFETIME ban by UFC chief Dana White after being involved in ringside brawl

Dana White has vowed Dillon Danis will never be seen at a UFC fight again after he was involved in a ringside brawl at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night. In clips seen on social media, Danis was spotted in a heated confrontation with Islam Makhachev's camp before tensions boiled over and a fight broke out. A number of Makhachev's team - which includes UFC fighters such as Magomed Zaynukov - were seen throwing punches at Danis cageside. The brawl also erupted right next to Jack Della Madellena's wife Michelle and mother, Sonya. In one clip in particular, Zaynukov could be seen landing heavy blows to the side of Danis' head while the latter attempted to diffuse a brawl happening beside him. Police and security attempted to diffuse the situation however the terrifying scenes continued as members from both camps continued to charge at one-another. After nearly five minutes of brawling, Danis and a number of Makhachev's team were escorted away from the octagon and taken backstage at Madison Square Garden. UFC chief White responded to the incident at a post-fight press conference, as he vowed that Danis would be banned from further UFC events. 'You will never see Dillon Danis at a UFC fight ever again,' White said. 'That and a lot of other reasons [are why we’d never sign him]. You’ll never see him at another fight.' White confirmed that the UFC had declined to press charges, but said he blamed himself for failing to see confrontation coming. 'So they call me from downstairs and they said, "We got him down here, do you want to press charges and have him arrested?" And I said, "No, we don't want to press charges. This is the fight business, man. You know how I feel about this",' White said. 'I could have prevented this tonight. 'It never even crossed my mind, as stupid as that could be, that the entire muslin brotherhood was here tonight in the first five rows for Islam (Makhachev). 'I blame myself for that, actually. 'They came back and told me right before I walked out for the main card that Dillon Danis was here and he was moving around, sitting in fighters' seats and not sitting in his own seat that he had. He had a ticket. And they said, ‘Do you want us to throw him out of here?' and I said, ‘He has a ticket?' and they said, ‘Yeah.' 'So I said, "If the guy has a ticket, let him sit in his seat. Let him do what he's doing, but keep an eye on him"'. This incident can likely be explained by Danis' long-running feud with Makhachev, dating back to the infamous post‑fight melee after Khabib Nurmagomedov's victory over Conor McGregor. Danis, at the time, was a core member of McGregor's team and was seen in viral videos clashing with Khabib's crew after they charged at the Irishman post-fight. Last month, Danis claimed Makhachev 'punched me in the head seven times' during that post-fight brawl. 'He jumped in such a weird way where he jumped with his feet and hands,' Danis told the MightyCast podcast. 'It was like the weirdest thing. So I didn't know what to block, he had his feet in the air and his hands up. 'I was like, am I getting drop-kicked right now? I should have just run forward and tackled him. That would have been the best thing, but in the moment I didn't know what he was going to hit me with. So he landed and we got into that brawl. 'Then f***ing security is holding me and Islam punched me in the back of the head, but during the whole fight it was kind of building up in the corner. They were saying s*** to me and Islam was saying s*** to me.