Many call him John Pork, but it was the beef with Dillon Danis that grabbed headlines from over the weekend, and the former is giving their side of the story.
The man known as Magomed Zaynukov, aka John Pork, was at Madison Square Garden in support of his teammate Islam Makhachev, seeking the goal of becoming a two-division UFC titleholder. The proximity of Danis to Zaynukov and other Dagestan combatants in the cageside assigned seating areas for the card stoked the long-existing intensities between the McGregor and Nurmagomedov camps, with Dillon Danis and Magomed Zaynukov having historical ties to those groups, respectively.