{"id":404886,"date":"2025-11-26T01:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/404886\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T01:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:43:10","slug":"ufc-brawl-under-investigation-in-new-york-says-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/404886\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC brawl under investigation in New York, says mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/84469955007-20250704-t-024457-z-1165667294-rc-2-dffan-1-to-5-rtrmadp-3-usatrump.JPG\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Trump: White House will host UFC fight for America&#8217;s 250th birthday<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump announced the White House plans to host a UFC fight for America&#8217;s 250th birthday next year.<\/p>\n<p>New York&#8217;s mayor and the UFC&#8217;s CEO have different ideas about discipline following a recent brawl.<\/p>\n<p>Dana White said MMA fighter Dillon Danis would be banned from future UFC events for his role in a brawl that erupted in Madison Square Garden on Nov. 15, during UFC 322. Afterward, White said, &#8220;So they called me from downstairs and they said, &#8216;We got him down here. Do you want to press charges and have him arrested?&#8217; And I said, no, we don&#8217;t want to press charges. It&#8217;s the fight business, man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But New York Mayor Eric Adams indicated he has more extensive plans than White, the UFC\u2019s CEO. The New York Police Department is involved, according to the outgoing mayor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese assaults at Madison Square Garden are completely unacceptable,\u2019\u2019 Adams wrote on his personal X account. \u201cThe NYPD is already conducting a full investigation, and everyone responsible will be held accountable.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">These assaults at Madison Square Garden are completely unacceptable. The NYPD is already conducting a full investigation, and everyone responsible will be held accountable. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1hO15blaKs\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/1hO15blaKs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Adams (@ericadamsfornyc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericadamsfornyc\/status\/1993108720201744771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Danis, a former teammate of Conor McGregor, was thought to have instigated the brawl that took place near the octagon before the main card started the night of UFC 322.<\/p>\n<p>After the event, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/11\/16\/dana-white-ufc-322-brawl-dillon-danis-banned\/87304124007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">White said he was to blame<\/a>. But Adams suggested the individuals who participated in the brawl will have to take responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>On X, Adams shared video of the brawl that included Danis, who previously competed on the Bellator circuit, and members of Khabib Nurmagomedov&#8217;s team, according to MMAJunkie.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN reported that multiple videos showed teammates of UFC welterweight champion Islam Makhachev also were involved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump: White House will host UFC fight for America&#8217;s 250th birthday President Donald Trump announced the White House&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":404887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[191188,567,5714,5229,648,10888,5289,454,556,117577,557,21573,21574,451,635,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,450,457,62,1458,646,552,191189,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,8572,8576,636],"class_list":["post-404886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-191188","tag-abuse","tag-adams","tag-america","tag-arts","tag-eric","tag-eric-adams","tag-government","tag-islam","tag-islam-makhachev","tag-makhachev","tag-martial","tag-martial-arts","tag-negative","tag-new","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-u0026","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-322","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-violence","tag-violence-u0026-abuse","tag-york"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115613467733864944","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}