Max Holloway is the latest fighter to chime in on T.J. Dillashaw’s positive drug test for EPO.
T.J. Dillashaw will get no sympathy from Max Holloway.
Dillashaw has come under attack by fellow fighters after testing positive for EPO, an injectable only performance-enhancing drug. The former two-time bantamweight champion has been suspended until January 2021 and has been removed from the official UFC rankings.
His coaches Sam Calavitta and Duane Ludwig have stood by their prized student, with Calavitta hailing Dillashaw ‘a fallen soldier on the battlefield of public expectation.’
Holloway, who says Dillashaw would have been in for a rude awakening had he ever moved up to 145-pounds, criticized the former champ’s coaches for not apologizing for his misconduct.
Max Holloway on the Dillashaw situation and what would have happened if Dillashaw tried his hand at featherweight
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“It is what it is, it happened,” Holloway told reporters ahead of his interim lightweight title fight against Dustin Poirier at UFC 236. “I remember him saying I was slow and this and that. It would have been a rude awakening if he came to 45.
“I read everything that his coaches said and I didn’t hear one single sorry. Not one, not one single sorry. So it is what it is with that guy.”
Holloway will look to become the UFC’s next two-division champ when he takes on Poirier later this evening at UFC 236. The pay-per-view extravaganza takes place at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.