Dillon Danis was at one point in his life regarded as one of the best Jiu Jitsu grapplers in the world, a promising MMA star, and huge draw in the youtube boxing world.

But in just 3 years all of Dillon Danis hype has died.

How did Dillon Danis fall so far off? Its hard to sum it up in just one story. It started with his split from Marcelo Garcia, then went into his controversial MMA coaching and career, then finally into his short lived boxing career. Lets divide Dillon Danis into a 3 part story, starting with Jiu jitsu.

Dillon Danis started his career at a very young age with one of the best jiu jitsu practitioners in the world as his coach, Marcelo Garcia. Marcelo Garcia is a very humble, kind, and caring competitor who has translated his competition style into coaching flawlessly. With his very high level training partners Dillon was able to gain world championships at blue belt, purple belt, and even brown belt. He was on track for a very promising Jiu jitsu career.

Then one day Dillon Danis was noticed by the notorious Conor McGregor and was asked by McGregor to join his team and help him level up his jiu jitsu for his next fight. McGregor is known for running his mouth and large brash opinions, not scared of who he will offend. This is why Conor rose to popularity so fast and is the most well known MMA fighter of all time.

When Dillon joined McGregor’s team you could tell something changed with him. He was no longer this humble, kind, caring, Marcelo Garcia student. He fully adapted the Conor McGregor style and personality. As a result of this Dillons popularity skyrocketed by millions of followers. Shortly after joining forces with Conor, Dillon Danis was kicked out of Marcelo Garcias gym.

Dillon hardly competed in jiu jitsu after his split with Marcelo, and eventually made the full transition to MMA.

We will cover Dillons MMA career in part 2 of The Dillon Danis Disaster series.