The aftermath of the Khamzat
Chimaev–Dillon
Danis pairing at RAF 10 has garnered much more attention than
the match itself.

After the former
UFC middleweight champion scored a quick victory over Danis,
Chimaev kicked the legs of a grounded “El Jefe,” sparking a huge
melee at the Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis. Danis appeared to draw
Chimaev’s ire by holding on to his foot at the conclusion of the
match.

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Danis also attempted a guillotine on Chimaev after being taken down
earlier in the match.

Chimaev has since broken his silence on the situation, directing
the majority of the blame toward his opponent.

“What should I think? Stupid guys do stupid things,” Chimaev told
Red Corner MMA. “I accept something like that. He knows he wasn’t
my level in wrestling so he felt that and then he tried to sub me.
Like do submission, bro. If he did a submission on me, I’m never
going to train again.

“He’s a weird guy, honestly. You know I try to hold myself but this
idiot do stupid things. What should we do?”

With animosity still lingering, the Chechen standout indicated that
he would welcome a streetfight against Danis, who has been known
for his controversial antics since rising to prominence as Conor
McGregor’s training partner several years ago.

“I was thinking winning the match then outside I want to ask him
let’s go. Let’s dance outside,” Chimaev said. “I asked him before
like [let’s] do a street fight, you know? He don’t want it. He knew
a lot of security is going to be there and that’s why he was doing
same shit stuff.

“Whenever he wants, just send me a message [with] location wherever
you are and so I’m open.”

It’s not the first time such an incident has occurred at an RAF
event. A match between UFC lightweight contender Arman
Tsarukyan and influencer-wrestler Georgio Poullas at RAF 6

erupted into a brawl after Tsarukyan shoved his opponent down
to land a punch and a knee at the conclusion of their chippy
encounter.

RAF Exec Responds

RAF CEO Chad Bronstein addressed the most recent incident at
Saturday’s post-fight press conference. While the melee did bring
more attention to the organization, it is not something that RAF
wants to encourage going forward.

“I don’t think for what we do for wrestling this is what we want,
right?” Bronstein said (via MMAFighting.com). “It should just stay on the
stage. We talked to both of them prior to the match and said keep
it all wrestling on the stage. There should not be anyone getting
on that stage. The show was amazing before we got to that issue.
The wrestling world deserves wrestling. That’s what we’re here to
provide.

“No, we didn’t want that, as you probably know. We’re 10 shows in,
we had it happen once, now two. We just have to make sure again
that any of those matches happen, security’s even bigger so we
don’t have that situation.”

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