Khamzat Chimaev Sparks RAF 10 Brawl After Rapid Pinfall Win
Khamzat Chimaev turned RAF 10 into a scene of chaos on Saturday, scoring a rapid-fire pinfall over Dillon Danis before a massive brawl erupted on stage. The melee left officials trying to hold the area together, and the fallout could affect whether either fighter returns to work with the promotion.
Chimaev Danis RAF 10
The match ended in the first period, but the finish did not settle anything. Danis held onto Chimaev’s foot as the referee tried to separate them, and Chimaev kicked him in the leg a second later before dozens of people flooded the stage.
That sequence turned a wrestling result into a full post-match fight. Chimaev left the arena immediately after the melee with Danis, while RAF officials worked to maintain control over the situation.
Street fight offer
Chimaev had already pushed the confrontation beyond the mat earlier in the week, when he invited Danis to a street fight. At the RAF 10 pre-match press conference, the two men showed a playful faceoff rather than a heated one, which made the collapse afterward even more abrupt.
Before the pinfall, Danis almost appeared to grab for a guillotine choke during Chimaev’s first takedown attempt. That moment added another flashpoint to a match that was already moving fast, and it helped explain why the scene on stage escalated so quickly once the bout ended.
Chimaev on Danis
On Sunday, Chimaev addressed the aftermath in comments to Red Corner MMA and made clear he would still fight Danis outside a rules setting. “What should I think? Stupid guys do stupid things,” he said, before adding, “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 kept going. “He’s a weird guy, honestly. You know I try to hold myself but this idiot do stupid things. What should we do?” Chimaev also said, “I was thinking winning the match then outside I want to ask him let’s go. Let’s dance outside,” and repeated that he had already offered a street fight: “I asked him before like [let’s] do a street fight, you know? He don’t want it.”
The unanswered issue now is whether RAF will want either man back after the stage fight. Chimaev said, “Whenever he wants, just send me a message [with] location wherever you are and so I’m open,” but the promotion’s next move will decide whether Saturday’s mess stays a one-night eruption or carries into its roster choices.
