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Michael Bisping Makes Interesting Comments On TJ Dillashaw Relinquishing UFC Title

Michael Bisping makes some interesting comments on TJ Dillashaw and his decision to voluntarily relinquishing the UFC bantamweight title. Dillashaw has been suspended for one year and fined $10,000 by the New York State Athletic Commission (NYSAC) for failing a USADA drug test. The failed drug test came from his fight with Henry Cejudo. Bisping […]

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Michael Bisping makes some interesting comments on TJ Dillashaw and his decision to voluntarily relinquishing the UFC bantamweight title.

Dillashaw has been suspended for one year and fined $10,000 by the New York State Athletic Commission (NYSAC) for failing a USADA drug test. The failed drug test came from his fight with Henry Cejudo.

Bisping argued on his Believe You Me podcast that Dillashaw would not give up his title if he were innocent. Thus, he thinks by doing so was essentially an admission of guilt by Dillashaw.

“I don’t break the circle of trust,” Bisping said (H/T to MMAFighting). “I don’t speak outside of school. I don’t tell tales outside of f*cking tale-telling time, but I’m, telling you this, circle of trust or not, no motherf*cker relinquishes their belt out of respect for the rest of the division. It ain’t about the rest of the division, it’s about me. I’m not gonna relinquish my belt once I destroy the competition and become the champion. I’m not gonna relinquish my belt out of respect for the competition.

“You just wouldn’t do that. So that in itself – and I apologize if I’m wrong – is almost an admittance of guilt. It really is. You would not relinquish your belt unless there was some kind of guilt and you know you’re in a no-win situation.”

Before this suspension was handed out, the belief was that Dillashaw would likely have defended his bantamweight title this summer against Cejudo. Obviously, those plans are scrapped.

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Henry Cejudo Won’t Ever Fight TJ Dillashaw Again If Doping Allegations Are True

If the doping allegations against TJ Dillashaw are true, Henry Cejudo will not share the Octagon with the former 135-pound champion again. Initially, it was believed that Cejudo would challenge Dillashaw for the bantamweight strap after retaining his f…

If the doping allegations against TJ Dillashaw are true, Henry Cejudo will not share the Octagon with the former 135-pound champion again. Initially, it was believed that Cejudo would challenge Dillashaw for the bantamweight strap after retaining his flyweight title against “The Viper” with a first-round knockout in January. However, Dillashaw failed a United States […]

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Marlon Moraes vs. Henry Cejudo Expected to Determine New UFC Bantamweight Champion

With T.J. Dillashaw relinquishing the bantamweight title earlier this week, the UFC is moving towards a fight between Marlon Moraes and Henry Cejudo to determine a new 135-pound champion. That’s coming from UFC president Dana White, who announced the n…

With T.J. Dillashaw relinquishing the bantamweight title earlier this week, the UFC is moving towards a fight between Marlon Moraes and Henry Cejudo to determine a new 135-pound champion. That’s coming from UFC president Dana White, who announced the news on Saturday night following the UFC Fight Night card from Nashville. “I now have a […]

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Quote: Henry Cejudo Would Get ‘Smacked Up’ At 135

Henry Cejudo certainly has some thinking to do right now. The UFC flyweight champion was expected to jump up and challenge TJ Dillashaw for the 135-pound championship. However, due to Dillashaw’s recent issues with the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), the weight jump has lost a bit of its luster. Instead, Cejudo has the choice […]

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Henry Cejudo certainly has some thinking to do right now.

The UFC flyweight champion was expected to jump up and challenge TJ Dillashaw for the 135-pound championship. However, due to Dillashaw’s recent issues with the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), the weight jump has lost a bit of its luster.

Instead, Cejudo has the choice of, perhaps, competing for the vacant 135-pound belt, or defending his flyweight title. UFC bantamweight Aljamin Sterling believes “The Messenger” is better off staying at 125, unless he wants to get “smacked up” by the UFC’s bantamweights (via MMA Fighting):

“I look at Cejudo, he’s trying to swim with the big boys,” Sterling said. “He beat a depleted T.J. Dillashaw. Everyone advised T.J. not to cut that extra 10 pounds. If you look at him during that fight week, there was a picture where he had a whole table filled with, like, 20 bottles of supplements and pills.

“God knows what was in those pills and that was supposedly the way for him to get down safely to 125. I tell you, I cut down to 135, people think I’m huge for the weight, and I don’t take none of that shit. So he’s pumping himself up over beating a 125 T.J. Dillashaw.

“It’s not the same fighter. If he wants to come up and get smacked up by a couple of real big boys and swim with the sharks, he’s gonna want to go back running down to 125 real soon. … Let Cejudo come up. His wrestling’s only going to take him so far before the body weight and everything starts to play a factor.

“Honestly, I would like to be the guy to welcome him to this division. Welcome to 135, champ.”

Cejudo became the first man to defeat Demetrious “Mighty Mouse” Johnson at flyweight last summer. He followed that up with a huge title defense against TJ Dillashaw in January. Cejudo actually finished Dillashaw in the first round via TKO. Although the finish was a controversial one, it was still an impressive showing from Cejudo nonetheless.

Now, it remains to be seen what Cejudo decides to do next in his mixed martial arts (MMA) career. If he does decide to jump up to bantamweight, however, it makes for some very interesting match-ups.

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Coach Prefers Henry Cejudo Rematch Joseph Benavidez, Forget Vacant Bantamweight Title

UFC flyweight champion Henry Cejudo has a lot of options for his next fight inside the Octagon. Initially, it was a foregone conclusion that “The Messenger” would challenge TJ Dillashaw for the 135-pound title next. However, with Dillashaw …

UFC flyweight champion Henry Cejudo has a lot of options for his next fight inside the Octagon. Initially, it was a foregone conclusion that “The Messenger” would challenge TJ Dillashaw for the 135-pound title next. However, with Dillashaw relinquishing the title due to a recent “adverse finding” in his drug test, plans have changed. Of […]

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Miesha Tate Compares TJ Dillashaw’s USADA Situation To Jon Jones’ Picograms

Miesha Tate sees some similarities between TJ Dillashaw and Jon Jones’ United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) cases. Dillashaw recently tested positive for an “adverse finding” in his drug test during the time of his fight against Henry Cejudo in January. Speaking to Sirius XM Fight Nation, the former UFC women’s bantamweight champion gave her thoughts […]

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Miesha Tate sees some similarities between TJ Dillashaw and Jon Jones’ United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) cases.

Dillashaw recently tested positive for an “adverse finding” in his drug test during the time of his fight against Henry Cejudo in January. Speaking to Sirius XM Fight Nation, the former UFC women’s bantamweight champion gave her thoughts on the situation.

She offered a comparison between Dillashaw and Jon Jones, who has also had issues with the anti-doping agency in the past (via BJPenn.com):

“There was a point when it wasn’t strictly enforced, and I do believe that probably the majority of people were using,” said Tate. “It’s possible that he did it at one point in his career before it was a big no-no. And now, it’s a no-no, and maybe he’s clean, but maybe something is popping up that maybe he used a long time ago that he never got caught for.

“If it happens with Jon Jones…yes, he got busted, and now it’s reoccurring, but I think we’re actually going to see more cases. As USADA is getting down to a picogram…what is that, like 50 millionth of a gram of salt or something ridiculous like that?

“If they’re that specific, if anybody’s used anything at one point in their career, then it’s possible that these picograms are still floating around.”

Tate also said that Dillashaw cutting down to 125 pounds might have played a factor in the positive test:

“So he dropped down to 125, I mean, he cut all of his body fat,” she said. “If anything was gonna pop up that was from a long time ago…”

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