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A fan runs into the cage to check on Conor McGregor during the wild UFC 229 post-fight brawl.

One of the men who was pivotal in defusing the chaotic post-fight brawl at UFC 229 was two-division champion Daniel Cormier, who trains with Khabib Nurmagomedov at American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose, California.

Cormier and teammate Luke Rockhold managed to calm Nurmagomedov down after ‘The Eagle’ leapt from the cage and attacked Conor McGregor’s Brazilian Jiu Jitsu coach, Dillon Danis, in the immediate aftermath of the UFC 229 main event.

Speaking to ESPN’s Ariel Helwani in a recent interview (h/t Christopher Taylor of BJPenn.com), ‘DC’ picked up on something that everyone else missed at UFC 229: A heroic fan ran into the cage to check on ‘The Notorious’.