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Cody Garbrandt & TJ Dillashaw Go Off In Heated Twitter War

There’s been much speculation as to whether or not UFC 213’s anticipated Cody Garbrandt vs. TJ Dillashaw fight will actually take place on the July 8 card from Vegas. The two bitter rivals have been going all-out to bash each other on the current season of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 25: Redemption, with former champion […]

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There’s been much speculation as to whether or not UFC 213’s anticipated Cody Garbrandt vs. TJ Dillashaw fight will actually take place on the July 8 card from Vegas.

The two bitter rivals have been going all-out to bash each other on the current season of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) 25: Redemption, with former champion Dillashaw’s team taking a commanding 5-0 lead.

The chance to settle those differences is in jeopardy although, as “No Love” went to Germany to receive special treatment for a back injury. He did so, and tweeted he was back in the United States yesterday. That’s when an all-out Twitter war with Dillashaw broke out after Garbrandt affirmed Dillashaw would get his:

Garbrandt took it to a new level responding to an article about “The Viper’s” view that he was ‘mentally weak,’ suggesting that Dillashaw had used PEDs during his run as champion and has not not knocked anyone out – or even down – in the year since:

“No Love” insisted he was focused on getting himself back to health, and the rest would fall into place:

Dillashaw then fired back that his team was 5-0, so he must be sharing his PEDs with them:

Garbrandt responded by noting the show didn’t matter as much as their eventual match-up:

Dillashaw then fired back with the insistence that Garbrandt was downplaying the importance of a venture all the fighters on their season of TUF had put their lives into what he called just a ‘reality show’:

So the beef between two of the world’s top bantamweights has been heightened to an all-new level; something it may not have needed in the first place.

But the real question is when the fight will actually take place based on “No Love’s” back issues are legitimately cleared up. With UFC 213 lacking a true main event and the UFC struggling for true top bouts in 2017, the promotion will be looking for one of their rising stars to make it to the octagon on time.

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Cody Garbrandt: TJ Dillashaw ‘Needed To Take PEDs To Be Champion’

UFC bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt might have more time on his hands coming up to continue his verbal feud with TJ Dillashaw. Garbrandt recently returned to the U.S. after going out of the country in hopes of getting his back fixed in time to face Dillashaw in July at UFC 213. All the while, the […]

UFC bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt might have more time on his hands coming up to continue his verbal feud with TJ Dillashaw. Garbrandt recently returned to the U.S. after going out of the country in hopes of getting his back fixed in time to face Dillashaw in July at UFC 213. All the while, the […]

The Ultimate Fighter Recap: Another Win by Team Garbrandt

James Krause made Cody Garbrandt look like a genius, pushing the UFC bantamweight champions record as coach on The Ultimate Fighter to 4-0. Krause scored a first round submission victory over Johnny Nunez, who was competing for T.J. Dillashaw on the reality series. To change things up, UFC officials decided to bring back former contestants […]

James Krause made Cody Garbrandt look like a genius, pushing the UFC bantamweight champions record as coach on The Ultimate Fighter to 4-0. Krause scored a first round submission victory over Johnny Nunez, who was competing for T.J. Dillashaw on the reality series. To change things up, UFC officials decided to bring back former contestants […]

Flashback: Watch UFC Champ Cody Garbrandt Get Knocked Out Cold

After winning the UFC bantamweight title from 135-pound legend Dominick Cruz in the co-main event of last December’s UFC 207, Cody Garbrandt is headed for a highly-publicized title bout with former champion TJ Dillashaw in the co-main event of July 8’s UFC 213 from Las Vegas. Their bad blood comes from their well-documented history as onetime

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After winning the UFC bantamweight title from 135-pound legend Dominick Cruz in the co-main event of last December’s UFC 207, Cody Garbrandt is headed for a highly-publicized title bout with former champion TJ Dillashaw in the co-main event of July 8’s UFC 213 from Las Vegas.

Their bad blood comes from their well-documented history as onetime teammates at Urijah Faber’s Team Alpha Male, a camp where Dillashaw became the team’s first UFC champion – and also where Garbrandt reportedly knocked him out in training as a rising prospect. When Dillashaw split the team alongside former TAM head coach Duane “Bang” Ludwig; however, a dividing rift was created and “The Viper” became instant enemies opposite his old training partners and friends.

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With Faber now retired, Garbrandt seems to have taken up the onus of defending Team Alpha Male’s name against a man they feel is a “snake” after he supposedly sold them out to take the higher payday at Colorado’s Elevation Fight Team. Riding high on one of the most impressive performances ever witnessed at 135 when he outclassed Cruz over five rounds, Garbrandt is quickly becoming one of the hottest rising stars in MMA.

But it wasn’t always like that, because while Garbrandt is undefeated in his professional MMA career, he lost two bouts in his amateur career, and one of them came when he was absolutely floored by Jerrell Hodge in the North American Allied Fighting Series (NAAFS) back in early 2012. Watch the shocking KO video right here:

Such a brutal stoppage loss will stick in a fighter’s mind, but while Cruz tried to point to the loss to Hodge as a sign of weakness, Garbrandt was quick to turn that around with his belief that the knockout only served to make him a much better and stronger fighter.

It’s hard to argue with that train of thought, too, as the ultra-exciting “No Love” has reeled off 11 consecutive wins against top competition, including nine by T/KO and seven in the first round. Garbrandt obviously displays knockout power that we’ve rarely if ever seen in the bantamweight division, and his rigorous commitment to training with TAM has paid big dividends for his all-around game during a meteoric rise to prominence as a young and marketable champion.

Photo by Mark J. Rebilas of USA Today Sports

And it couldn’t be at a more opportune time, either, as the UFC currently needs bankable stars arguably more than they ever have in their nearly 24-year history. Dillashaw brings some of the most confusing footwork along with amazing accuracy and an NCAA-level wrestling background, but Garbrandt showed he could easily withstand all the skills of “The Dominator,” who beat Dillashaw, albeit quite narrowly, in their early 2016 meeting.

MMA math rarely adds up, and the bad blood dynamic of this fight will certainly mean that emotions will be running high for both sides. The drama of the TV show has amplified that to a much greater degree as well, especially with Faber present as one of Garbrandt’s coaches.

Dillashaw will bring a unique challenge, that much is true, but it’s also one Garbrandt has seen before. So while the champ has been brutally knocked out before, he’s shown he has rebounded to become one the fast-rising stars in all of MMA.

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Cruz: Dillashaw Will Lose Because Of Team Alpha Male Drama

Cody Garbrandt is set to defend the UFC bantamweight title for the first time against former champion TJ Dillashaw at UFC 213 on July 8th in Las Vegas, Nevada. Former champion Dominick Cruz is keeping his eye on the fight from the sidelines as he likely face the winner of the fight. The history between

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Cody Garbrandt is set to defend the UFC bantamweight title for the first time against former champion TJ Dillashaw at UFC 213 on July 8th in Las Vegas, Nevada. Former champion Dominick Cruz is keeping his eye on the fight from the sidelines as he likely face the winner of the fight.

The history between Dillashaw and Team Alpha Male has been well documented, but it has also made it easy to create a narrative leading up to fight night. The fact that the two sides are filmed on TUF 25 adds to it and draws interest. According to Cruz, Dillashaw’s beef with his former team could be mentally draining and be his downfall come fight night.

“I think stylistically, TJ has the technique and the tools to beat a guy like Cody,” Cruz said on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour (via MMA Fighting). “He kicks fluently, he mixes his punches and kicks. Cody has the edge in the power in the pocket, but TJ can make up the pocket work with kicks, movement, and angles, and he’s kicking a little bit more than I did against Cody, so I think that will play to his advantage. But as for the mental game, I think the fact that TJ is facing that whole camp, not just Cody Garbrandt, I think that’s really wearing on TJ. I think it’s going to keep wearing on him. I think the mental is what gets him beat against Cody.”

It’s well known that Dillashaw left Team Alpha Male to train full-time with Duane Ludwig in Colorado, which made his ex-teammates upset and called him out by saying that he is a “snake in the grass” as Conor McGregor had previously put it. Cruz blames the team’s founder, Urijah Faber, for the situation.

“It hurt his ego that his guy would go somewhere else and train with somebody that TJ thinks is better than Faber, and it hurt him that Ludwig was getting all this shine while he was at Faber’s camp, because that’s Faber’s camp. So that all being said, TJ isn’t just fighting Cody,” Cruz said. “He’s fighting that entire camp. He’s fighting Danny Castillo. He’s fighting Faber. He’s fighting Cody. He’s fighting all his old coaches. He’s fighting all his old friends and family members.”

“I think that mental strain and the loneliness that he’s feeling on that show and over this period of time is wearing on him, and I think that the mental aspects of that are what gets him beat against Cody, not the technical aspects that TJ has.”

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That Time UFC’s Steve Bosse Threw Down in Classic Hockey Fight in Pre-MMA Days

UFC light heavyweight Steve Bosse was booked for his fourth bout in the promotion this week. The light heavyweight will lock horns with Jared Cannonier at The Ultimate Fighter 25 Finale this summer, a classic striker versus grappler matchup that s…

UFC light heavyweight Steve Bosse was booked for his fourth bout in the promotion this week. The light heavyweight will lock horns with Jared Cannonier at The Ultimate Fighter 25 Finale this summer, a classic striker versus grappler matchup that should prove a nice test for both guys.

Cannonier is something of a prospect at this stage, and the UFC will look to test him against the Canadian slugger. Bosse is a dangerous commodity and something of a grizzled veteran, as despite only 14 pro fights, he had an entire life as a legendary hockey enforcer before tackling MMA.

Looking at the stats, it’s probably not exaggerating it to suggest he’s been in hundreds of on-ice wars. So to put it mildly, The Boss knows a thing or two about throwing hands.

In his younger days, Bosse made a name for himself in the Ligue Nord-Americaine de Hockey, a semi-professional league in Quebec known as much for brawling as for hockey. In only 113 career games, he put up a staggering 808 penalty minutes.

That’s an average of just over seven penalty minutes a game. For comparison, according to SportingCharts.com, in the 2016 NHL season, only three players in the entire league who played a full season averaged over two.

So yes, in his day Bosse was quite a handful on the ice. With 10 of his 12 wins coming by knockout, you could pretty convincingly argue he still is.

One of his greatest fistic sagas was shared with another Canadian minor pro enforcer, Jon “Nasty” Mirasty. The documentation is sparse given the limited exposure of the league they played in, but they fought no less than five times and might well have been into double digits by the time Bosse permanently traded skates for four-ounce gloves in 2015.

To see how a hockey fight is set up between the combatants and unfolds in the game, enjoy the clip below. It shows Bosse and Mirasty chatting pregame, eyeing each other before the tilt, circling one another and getting amped up, then throwing absolute bombs with reckless abandon until the officials break it up.

If you like the honor and gamesmanship of MMA but you’re not into things like defense or head movement, you’ll probably enjoy it.

The TUF Finale happens July 7 in Las Vegas and is presently without a headliner. TJ Dillashaw and Cody Garbrandt are coaching the season and will meet the next night at UFC 213.

 

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