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Billy Quarantillo Says A Former Opponent Will Corner Him For Cub Swanson Fight In Tampa

At the UFC’s upcoming return to Tampa on December 14, Billy Quarantillo is looking to get back in the win column when he takes on a veteran of the featherweight division. In what will be the 25th fight of his UFC tenure, “Killer” Cub Swanson will also look to bounce back. In a recent interview […]

At the UFC’s upcoming return to Tampa on December 14, Billy Quarantillo is looking to get back in the win column when he takes on a veteran of the featherweight division. In what will be the 25th fight of his UFC tenure, “Killer” Cub Swanson will also look to bounce back.

In a recent interview with James Lynch for Fight Bananas, Quarantillo provided an interesting key point about his preparations for his next fight that in turn, will bring a significant change to his corner for this particular contest. The 35-year old has spent a large amount of 2024 training alongside PFL and ex-UFC fighter, Shane Burgos.

The two men faced off inside the Octagon three years ago at UFC 268 in Madison Square Garden where they put on one of the best fights of the year. Unfortunately, they had the tough task of following the undisputed fight of the year between Justin Gaethje and Michael Chandler which opened the main card.

During Burgos’ time in the UFC, he fought and defeated Swanson via split decision in May of 2019 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Quarantillo said that the time that he has spent training with Burgos and the fact that he has experience sharing the cage with Swanson made him the right man to have in his corner for this fight.

“We’re locked in. We got Shane Burgos, my old nemesis, he’s actually going to be in my corner which is pretty cool. He has a win over Cub Swanson and he moved down here to Tampa about six months ago and we just hit it off right away. He’s been at my gym pretty much every week helping me out with different aspects of my game, he obviously knows Cub’s game really well and he has some things that he knows will work well on him so I invited him out to my corner.”   

Cub Swanson Reveals Motivation After Signing New UFC Deal At 41

On December 14 in Tampa, Cub Swanson will look to make his 25th appearance inside the Octagon after debuting with the promotion all the way back in 2011. Having alternated wins and losses for the past few years, he’s looking to bounce back against Billy Quarantillo in a very fan-friendly match-up. Swanson spoke in a […]

On December 14 in Tampa, Cub Swanson will look to make his 25th appearance inside the Octagon after debuting with the promotion all the way back in 2011. Having alternated wins and losses for the past few years, he’s looking to bounce back against Billy Quarantillo in a very fan-friendly match-up.

Swanson spoke in a recent interview with MMA Junkie about how he’s taking each fight one at a time at 41-years old. He announced that this bout will be the first of a newly-signed four-fight deal that he believes will take him up to the end of his career.

“It’s fight by fight but this would have been my last one so I told them I didn’t intend on fighting out of my contract and going to other places, I want to stay here. I think it’s fitting and so yeah, we did a new deal.”

When asked about his motivation to continue competing at this stage, Swanson said that though he now has to balance being a fighter with his other work commitments and family life, it’s his kids that inspire him to keep going. “Killer” Cub is focused on supporting his family but he also wants them to have memories that wouldn’t exist if he’d already hung up his gloves.

This motivation comes from a deep and emotional place for Swanson based on the experiences he had in regards to his late father. He opened up about this during the interview and explained how this has shaped the later stages of his UFC run.

“My father passed away when I was a baby so I grew up people telling me stories about my dad and I was always like, ‘Okay, thank you,’ but it’s like somebody I never met so it was a little strange. So I did all these cool things and then towards the end of my career I had kids and then they were babies and I’m like man, I don’t want them to hear stories about me and not remember it so then it became a motivation for me to want to do it long enough so they would remember and say, ‘Yeah, I remember my dad doing that, that’s pretty cool.’ So that became my motivation so it was really important for me.”   

Cub Swanson reveals what it was like training with TJ Dillashaw ahead of UFC 280: “He couldn’t even lift his left arm”

Cub Swanson TJ DillashawThe former UFC bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw was looking to reclaim his crown this weekend at UFC 280. Dillashaw met the reigning champion Aljamain Sterling and lost via second-round TKO. The former champion had entered this fight with a major shoulder injury which was evident throughout the bout. It was clear that the 36-year-old Dillashaw’s […]

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The former UFC bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw was looking to reclaim his crown this weekend at UFC 280. Dillashaw met the reigning champion Aljamain Sterling and lost via second-round TKO. The former champion had entered this fight with a major shoulder injury which was evident throughout the bout.

It was clear that the 36-year-old Dillashaw’s shoulder was continuously dislocating in the match. In between rounds, his coach Duane ‘Bang’ Ludwig would pop it back into place. In the second round, it popped out again, and Dillashaw attempted to fix it during the fight.

UFC Hall of Fame fighter Cub Swanson worked with TJ Dillashaw going into this world title showdown and claimed that TJ could scarcely lift his arm even six weeks before the fight. On Twitter, he said:

“When I worked with TJ about 5-6 weeks before this fight he couldn’t even lift his left arm….it’s the truth.”

Fans commented on this Tweet and said that it was a dumb idea to fight with such a severe injury. Swanson Tweeted again in defense of Dillashaw and said:

“Why do fighters fight injured? Because we are crazy and always believe we can win. Also we are taught to push thru pain and to always seize an opportunity.”

TJ Dillashaw discusses his shoulder injury

Going into his title match at UFC 280, TJ Dillashaw knew that his shoulder was in trouble. The American-born fighter even warned the referee ahead of time and instructed the official to not stop the match if his shoulder happened to get dislocated. In the post-fight interview, the 36-year-old former titleholder explained:

“I told the ref in the back before we came out that most likely, the shoulder’s gonna pop out. If it does, I’ll get it back in, please do not stop it. Unfortunately, in the second round, I couldn’t push off my shoulder.”

Dillashaw knew his shoulder would not make it through the fight because it popped out during training more than twenty times he claims. TJ continued:

“I gotta apologize to the weight class. Kind of held it up. I completely blew my shoulder out at the end of April, as soon as I was getting ready for this. I probably dislocated it a good 20 times throughout training camp. This is by far the toughest training camp I’ve been through because of that.” [Transcript courtesy of Bloody Elbow]

See TJ Dillashaw’s full post-fight interview below:

Cub Swanson Speaks Out Following Bantamweight Debut Loss

UFC veteran Cub Swanson has broken his social media silence following his loss to Jonathan Martinez at UFC Vegas 62 on Saturday. Swanson lost to Martinez in his bantamweight debut in the UFC Vegas 62 co-main event. After a back-and-forth first round, a…

UFC veteran Cub Swanson has broken his social media silence following his loss to Jonathan Martinez at UFC Vegas 62 on Saturday. Swanson lost to Martinez in his bantamweight debut in the UFC Vegas 62 co-main event. After a back-and-forth first round, an accumulation of low leg kicks proved too much for him to handle…

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