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UFC 229 Brawl was Business as Usual

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It turns out Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov weren’t exaggerating when they asserted, in the build up to their blockbuster fight at UFC 229, that there would be no shaking hands after all was said and done.

Rather than let the dust settle after the formal face punching had concluded on Saturday in Las Vegas, “The Eagle” kicked it up into a cyclone by scaling the cage and hulk jumping into the crowd to assault McGregor-lackey and Bellator MMA fighter Dillon Danis just moments after he’d forced “The Notorious” one to submit to a neck crank in the fourth round.