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Cody Garbrandt can’t seem to help himself. The former bantamweight champion has now suffered three nearly identical KO losses in a row, all stemming from his insistence on planting his feet and just swinging full force from his hips with both hands down until his opponent catches him mid-swing and puts him out. TJ Dillashaw scored the first two; Pedro Munhoz scored the third this past Saturday at UFC 235. Garbrandt was knocked down in a clash of heads and got up swinging for the fences, on full autopilot brawl mode.
His Team Alpha Male corner were not happy with him. Danny Castillo was screaming at him; Chris Holdsworth had a look of profound resignation. Even Bruce Buffer, sitting behind them, could only shake his head.
Even Bruce Buffer was pissed at Cody Garbrandt! pic.twitter.com/JzqdK1aMPy
— Darren Russell (@DarrenRussell_) March 6, 2019
Former Team Alpha Male coach Justin Buckholz took the opportunity to take a couple jabs at his old team’s coaching and cornering.
How not to corner.
— Justin Buchholz (@JustinBuchholz) March 6, 2019
Must be rough having all your fighters lose. https://t.co/bgxXcxNwuH
— Justin Buchholz (@JustinBuchholz) March 6, 2019
Cody Garbrandt will have to be matched carefully going forward; his coaches will have to find new ways to try to reign in his brawler’s instincts. They clearly know what the issue is; getting Garbrandt to avoid it is the trick.
Insomnia
If you thought that was the end of the Cody Garbrandt news, you would be wrong. See, the weird thing about this new TJ Dillashaw ink is that Cody has a tattoo that is virtually identical, which he got in 2017, after TJ knocked him out the first time.
Why do Cody Garbrandt and TJ Dillashaw have essentially the same tattoo of their girl in a Tiger headdress? pic.twitter.com/W1jfjN7ThX
— Andrew Pearson (@Vorpality) March 6, 2019
I have no idea what to make of that.
Ben Askren vs. Robbie Lawler was an infuriating stoppage, but it was also prime meme material
If Robbie Lawler has just trained better he would have known to just do this against Ben Askren –
Rookie Mistake pic.twitter.com/RAasyzRnXr— Wikipedia Brown 007 (@WikkipediaBrown) March 6, 2019
Some of them got weird. Here is one of Askren’s future fight with Darren Till.
Matt Hughes is not a great human being to his wife, brain trauma or no.
The disturbing details regarding Matt Hughes in restraining order obtained by MMA Junkie pic.twitter.com/1Qk4PdMOKF
— Jason Cruz (@dilletaunt) March 6, 2019
We are all kinda grateful to Anthony Smith for not taking the DQ, but he lost out on hundreds of thousands of dollars and another chance (however slim) to beat Jon Jones. I can’t tell whether that’s honorable, plain stupid, or both.
“I was never in this to be famous or be the ‘cool guy’…I’m in it for the World Championship. And had I stayed down, I wouldn’t have felt like the World Champion” – @lionheartasmith explains why he did not consider a DQ win at #UFC235 @RJcliffordMMA @danhardymma pic.twitter.com/efPnoSgWDn
— MMA on SiriusXM (@MMAonSiriusXM) March 6, 2019
That’s a nice hook
Chase Gamble and Marcel Stamps are fictional names, the kind of names you think up for your first handwritten novel in high school.
Jackpot!
Chase Gamble chokes out Marcel Stamps and hands him his first loss!#IslandFights53 pic.twitter.com/jSVaepH1WJ
— UFC FIGHT PASS (@UFCFightPass) March 7, 2019
Random Land
I think the dog did this on purpose.
Poor dog pic.twitter.com/b5eyDFzU8P
— BlackEntertainment (@ILoveBeinBlack) March 7, 2019
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