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TJ Dillashaw Goes Off On Cody Garbrandt For Charity Offer

It’s not a secret that UFC bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw and current title holder Cody Garbrandt do not like each other. The story is well known how the former training partners became enemies as Dillashaw left Team Alpha Male to continue training under Duane Ludwig the TAM trainer who parted ways with the gym. Now,

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It’s not a secret that UFC bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw and current title holder Cody Garbrandt do not like each other. The story is well known how the former training partners became enemies as Dillashaw left Team Alpha Male to continue training under Duane Ludwig the TAM trainer who parted ways with the gym. Now, the UFC put the two fighters against each other as coaches on the current season of The Ultimate Fighter, which will set up their fight in a few months.

There has been a ton of trash talk between the two fighters, but one of the most discussed storylines is the rumored existence of some video footage of a training session where Garbrandt knocks out Dillashaw. Justin Buchholz and Garbrandt both insist they have copies of the footage and have teased releasing it but have yet to do so despite TMZ offering $50,000 for the tape. However, no tape has been released. Garbrandt recently took to Instagram where he offered to sell the tape to the highest bidder. He stated that he would donate all the money to a charity of Dillashaw’s choice.

Pick a Charity @tjdillashaw #LetsGo

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Dillashaw didn’t exactly answer Garbrandt’ offer. However, he did respond to the message while he was on UFC Unfiltered by saying that Garbrandt should release it and levy a personal attack against him as well.

“I told him to go for it. Release it, because I, for one, don’t believe it and even if he did, I agree with Matt, I think it’s petty. I think they’re reaching. It’s something like, we put this time and sweat and tears into the gym, and he’s got this one clip of him doing good. What about the 70% of the time that I was doing awesome that [Justin] Buchholz has footage of? You know what, I could care less what happened then. I get to make, on pay-per-view, some film of me beating Cody’s ass that the world’s going to see and I’m going to make a lot more than selling it to TMZ. So they can do whatever they want with the practice room because we all know how it went down. So I could care less. Release the footage. The charity should be something for kids without fathers, so they don’t grow up to act like Cody.”

Garbrandt grew up without his biological father in his life, and he’s spoken openly about how that influenced him and the resentment he carries for the man. Dominick Cruz brought up Garbrandt’s “daddy issues” before their title fight last year and Garbrandt was quick to note on social media that Dillashaw was pulling from the same well.

The UFC released a clip from TUF where Garbrandt grabs Dillashaw by the throat. Dillashaw says that the clip was overblown in that nothing really happened.

“The guy’s a hot head. He wants to start drama, but he’s not witty enough to make good comebacks, so he wants to create conflict and get aggressive. He’s just not a good person.”

As for Dillashaw, he’s being quiet about the whole thing and waiting until they fight to do his talking.

Garbrandt and Dillashaw will fight each other at UFC 213 on July 8 in Las Vegas.

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Cody Garbandt Says The More he Knew T.J. Dillashaw, The More of a D*ckhead he Became

Cody Garbrandt’s stance on T.J. Dillashaw hasn’t softened one bit. The bad blood between “No Love” and Dillashaw is still brewing. Garbrandt is set to defend his Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bantamweight title against Dillashaw on July 8 for UFC 213. The latest season of “The Ultimate Fighter” sees Garbrandt and Dillashaw as opposing coaches. […]

Cody Garbrandt’s stance on T.J. Dillashaw hasn’t softened one bit. The bad blood between “No Love” and Dillashaw is still brewing. Garbrandt is set to defend his Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bantamweight title against Dillashaw on July 8 for UFC 213. The latest season of “The Ultimate Fighter” sees Garbrandt and Dillashaw as opposing coaches. […]

TJ Dillashaw Seeks Redemption From Team Alpha Male Against Garbrandt

TJ Dillashaw is ready to get his shot at Cody Garbrandt. The two former teammates’ relationship took a spill following Dillashaw’s departure from Team Alpha Male (TAM), opting to follow former TAM head-coach Duane Ludwig to Colorado. After the former bantamweight champion’s departure some bad blood between Dillashaw and TAM founder Urijah Faber began to

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TJ Dillashaw is ready to get his shot at Cody Garbrandt.

The two former teammates’ relationship took a spill following Dillashaw’s departure from Team Alpha Male (TAM), opting to follow former TAM head-coach Duane Ludwig to Colorado. After the former bantamweight champion’s departure some bad blood between Dillashaw and TAM founder Urijah Faber began to take the mixed martial arts (MMA) newswire by storm.

After dropping his title to Dominick Cruz back in January of 2016 Dillashaw has once again found himself in the title picture as he sits at the No. 1-ranked position in the UFC’s bantamweight rankings. Fate will have it, however, that the champion he challenges this time around won’t be Cruz, but instead former TAM teammate Cody Garbrandt.

The pair will collide for the UFC’s bantamweight throne at UFC 213 live on pay-per-view (PPV) from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 8, 2017. In the lead-up to their bout the two adversaries have been coaching opposite one another on the 25th season of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF 25).

Dillashaw recently did an interview with UFC.com (via MMA Mania) to promote the show, and claimed that the season will show Garbrandt’s true colors to the MMA world:

“You definitely learn some new things about his character and who he is,” Dillashaw said. “In my mind, he’s not a very good person — he’s about himself and very selfish, and that also comes across in training. I saw a lot of new things that I’m going to be able to use to my advantage in this training camp and in our fight.

“I don’t feel like he shows anybody any respect,” he continued. “He’s got a chip on his shoulder and I can’t wait to make him pay for it.”

Aside from attempting to regain the bantamweight title and put an abrupt end to ‘No Love’s’ short reign as 135-pound champ, Dillashaw also sees his fight against Garbrandt as an opportunity at redemption against TAM who he feel’s ‘burned’ him:

“I think the redemption theme for me is redemption against my old team (Team Alpha Male), the guys that have kind of burned me, the guys that stabbed me in the back a little bit,” he said. “My redemption is proving them all wrong, showing that I did make the right choice in my life and telling my story.

“Everything’s been in the public eye so much about me moving and following (coach) Duane (Ludwig) out to Colorado,” Dillashaw continued. “But, I don’t feel like the true story has ever been told.”

You can check out the season premiere of TUF 25, appropriately titled TUF: “Redemption”, tonight (Wed. April 19, 2017) at 10 P.M. ET on FS1.

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Demetrious Johnson on Cody Garbrandt Bout: ‘It Will Not be my Next Fight’

Demetrious Johnson is interested in a potential bout with Cody Garbrandt, but not for his next fight. This past Saturday night (April 15), Johnson was able to tie Anderson Silva’s record for most consecutive successful Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) title defenses at 10. “Mighty Mouse” turned in a one-sided trashing of Wilson Reis and scored […]

Demetrious Johnson is interested in a potential bout with Cody Garbrandt, but not for his next fight. This past Saturday night (April 15), Johnson was able to tie Anderson Silva’s record for most consecutive successful Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) title defenses at 10. “Mighty Mouse” turned in a one-sided trashing of Wilson Reis and scored […]

Demetrious Johnson Comments on Potential Cody Garbrandt Fight

Dominant UFC flyweight champion Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson etched his name into the history books this past weekend (April 15, 2017), as he tied Anderson Silva’s record for the most consecutive title defenses by defending his 125-pound strap for the 10th time with a third round submission victory over Wilson Reis. Johnson has consistently proven

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Dominant UFC flyweight champion Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson etched his name into the history books this past weekend (April 15, 2017), as he tied Anderson Silva’s record for the most consecutive title defenses by defending his 125-pound strap for the 10th time with a third round submission victory over Wilson Reis.

Johnson has consistently proven that he’s ahead of the pack at 125 pounds and he’s nearly cleaned out the division, which is why some have expressed interest in seeing him face off with bantamweight titleholder Cody Garbrandt. “Mighty Mouse” has said that he welcomes all challenges to his title, but he also confirmed that his next fight will not be against Garbrandt:

“He’s his own person,” Johnson said on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “Me and Cody talked off scene, everything’s fine, its just business. … It will not be my next fight. Don’t worry about it.”

As far as who his next opponent could be, Johnson didn’t have a definitive answer, although he did make it clear that he’ll be remaining at flyweight where he’ll look to break Silva’s long held record:

“People say I need to go up and do this, do that,” Johnson said. “Why not be the greatest ever? UFC went out and signed a whole bunch of great new flyweight talent and I would not mind putting my name against their’s and giving them a loss.”

“I’m going to let my body heal, relax, enjoy this history and just take my time,” Johnson said. “I won’t say any guy is on the radar until UFC sends me a contract, and then, that’s how it was for Wilson too. I knew Wilson was fighting, I didn’t know if we was going to win or not, I didn’t care if he was going to win or not, I had my training camp and I was ready to fight on April 15. If the UFC gave me a list of their events for the fall, I will look at it and go ‘hmm, I like this fight, I like the location, I’ll start my training camp 10 weeks out from there, and whoever is my opponent is my opponent.”

Who would you like to see the reigning flyweight king take on next?

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For Demetrious Johnson, Champ vs. Champ Fight with Garbrandt Is the Only Call

For a long time, Demetrious Johnson has been the UFC’s most anonymous champion. Every few months, it dusts him off, winds him up and lets him do his thing—which is something close to perfection—and everyone claps politely and then proc…

For a long time, Demetrious Johnson has been the UFC’s most anonymous champion. Every few months, it dusts him off, winds him up and lets him do his thing—which is something close to perfection—and everyone claps politely and then proceeds to forget about him within a few minutes of his departure.

At least for one night, we may have hope that is about to change. In Kansas City, Missouri, Johnson was greeted like a star, performed like a star and walked off basking in the brightest spotlight his amazing reign has yet seen. 

Perhaps this is all it took: a near flawless, jaw-dropping kind of mastery that left him alongside one of the most legendary names in the sport and threatening to rise above him. Johnson’s third-round submission win over Wilson Reis on Saturday marked his 10th straight UFC flyweight title defense, tying Anderson Silva for the most successful defenses in UFC history.

“[Georges St-Pierre] and Anderson Silva were great champions, but I’m the best champion to ever step foot in the Octagon,” Johnson said in the cage moments after his win, per the UFC.

That claim is still debatable, but his case has plenty of evidence that is irrefutable, and more than that, it continues to build.

With one more win, Johnson will have done something that no one in the UFC has ever done. That is an argument with no counter.

The question between now and then will be which man gets the chance to end his streak. Will it be Joseph Benavidez, in a trilogy bout? Will Ray Borg get a shot? Or will the UFC try to set up Johnson’s most high-profile match to date and grant bantamweight champ Cody Garbrandt’s wish to face him?

The last of the three is the one Johnson is most deserving of, but it’s also the matchup with the most hurdles. Johnson would have to be willing to wait until July just to set it up, all the while hoping that Garbrandt defeats T.J. Dillashaw in his first title defense.

And oh, yeah: He’d require a seven-figure payday, something that has thus far eluded him in his career.

“The whole thing with Cody; I’m not worried about it,” Johnson said in the post-fight press conference. “I’ve never turned anybody down. I have nothing but love for the guy. He just won a belt. I’ve defended mine 10 times. If he comes down at 125, we welcome it. He doesn’t dictate terms. Well maybe he does? I don’t know, but at the end of the day, it is what it is. If Cody wants to come to 125, and UFC deems him ready for a title shot, perfect.”

If Johnson comes off as indifferent to the prospective champion vs. champion fight, it’s only because humility and modesty is a staple of his personality, as is his continued drive.

As Johnson’s reign has unfolded, there has been a striking difference in his championship comportment as compared to either Silva or St-Pierre.

Late in their reigns, both of those men openly discussed the crushing strain of wearing a target. Johnson has never shown any signs of being stressed by the many would-be usurpers circling him.

Stardom also has little meaning to him, which is why he has never altered his personality to fit the MMA superstar archetype. 

“I’m not searching for that. That’s not why I do this sport,” he said. “I’m not here to be prom king. I want to be the best fighter in the UFC. I think I proved that tonight, dominating a world-class grappler. I don’t think I was touched on the feet.”

Yes, Saturday’s win was even more stunningly perfect than those that have come before it. According to FightMetric, Johnson limited Reis to landing just 10.6 percent of his strikes (18 of 170), a dismal ratio that amounted to quicksand for the challenger. It’s already nearly impossible to beat Johnson, but when you are consistently swinging at air, it is hopeless. By the middle of the second round, Reis must have felt like a dog chasing his tail.

And like all great champions, once Johnson had his opponent deflated, the fight’s ending was a mere formality. Johnson nearly finished Reis in the second, dropping him with a knee to the body and then pouncing on his grounded opponent with a series of hammerfists, but Reis was able to survive the few seconds to the horn.

Reis wasn’t so lucky in the third. Worn down and damaged, he was put down after Johnson pummeled him from the top and pivoted to an arm bar, making the first submission loss in Reis’s 29-fight, decadelong career.

When it was over, Reis just shrugged and hugged Johnson. There was nothing else to do. There was no way to spin things for a positive outlook.

There was just the stark bluntness of both the process and the result.

And that, in the end, is the greatness of Johnson. Yes, his numbers are impressive. Yes, his skill set is sublime. But during this 10-fight stretch, he has mostly left opponents bewildered. 

He has been so good for so long that in formulating the game plan against him, opposing coaches have to concede a few basic truths. If they are honest with themselves and their charges, they must admit in their preamble, “I know you’re going to miss strikes…” 

With that kind of statement, there is usually something afterward, some plan of action or attack. Some theoretical offense. But none of it ever comes to pass. 

Against Demetrious Johnson, it’s a pipe dream, a mirage, a fantasy.

Maybe we can all acknowledge him now. And maybe the UFC can give him his well-deserved payday. Whether it’s Garbrandt or the co-main event spot of a Conor McGregor card, Johnson has earned this like no one in UFC history ever has.

At least on Saturday night, the fight world took notice. That’s a start. Now as he flies back home and disappears from our view for a couple of months, let’s not forget him.

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