Just two fights into his MMA career, Dillon Danis is having to deal with the toll the sport can take on the body.
Danis’s coach John Kavanagh confirmed on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show that the jiu-jitsu star-turned cagefighter injured his knee ahead of his bout with Max Humphrey at Bellator 222 last Friday. The result was still overwhelmingly positive for Danis and his team as he dominated Humphrey on the ground before finishing with a first-round armbar, but there was some concern that he might not make it to fight night after injuring his lateral collateral ligament a week before the show.