Demetrious Johnson’s reign as the champion of the flyweight division will apparently take precedence over a switch to bantamweight, even with a win over TJ Dillashaw in the near-future. It may seem like quite a long time ago, but back in the year 2011, when the phenomenally talented Demetrious Johnson competed at 135lbs, very little about his record on-paper suggested …
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TJ Dillashaw has responded to talk of him granting Cody Garbrandt an immediate rematch with some harsh words for the Team Alpha Male product’s ability to take a punch. For all the spectacular happenings at UFC 217 earlier this month, TJ Dillashaw’s win over his heated rival Cody Garbrandt managed to see him make the strongest argument out of the three …
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Joe Rogan has made a pretty strong argument for TJ Dillashaw’s inclusion in the pound-for-pound number one discussion following his UFC 217 victory over Cody Garbrandt. The UFC rankings and, in particular, its pound-for-pound rankings can often be a fickle and inconsistent indicator of where fighters stand in relation to each other. Sure, it’s fun to see the very best of the …
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Some pretty stunning footage has emerged of TJ Dillashaw silencing a hostile crowd at UFC 217 last weekend.
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Urijah Faber has addressed the possibility of him shaking hands with TJ Dillashaw and Duane Ludwig following UFC 217.
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The former bantamweight champion of the world gave his take on UFC 217's co-main event between TJ Dillashaw and Cody Garbrandt.
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The ongoing feud between the members of Sacremento-based gym Team Alpha Male and the UFC’s former bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw is showing absolutely no signs of letting up ahead of TJ’s coaching stint on the Ultimate Fighter opposite Cody Garbrandt. Dillashaw, who left MMA pioneer Urijah Faber’s Team Alpha Male to follow striking coach Duane Ludwig when he left to start …
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Cody Garbrandt has once again found himself in the spotlight, this time for a short but succinct tweet in which he confirmed his desire to move up in weight to take on two of the UFC’s current champions. Ever since his dominant win over Dominick Cruz at UFC 207, the star power of Team Alpha Male’s Garbrandt has gone through …
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The UFC recently made the announcement that their upcoming 25th season of the Ultimate Fighter would feature both Cody Garbrandt and TJ Dillashaw in opposing coaching roles. The UFC’s bantamweight division has all of a sudden become one of the promotion’s most talked about weight classes. This has been a result in equal parts due to a huge influx of …
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The UFC’s former women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm has spoken about her former opponent Ronda Rousey’s mindset in the lead-up to her short-lived UFC 207 comeback fight against Amanda Nunes. Holly Holm’s name is one that will forever be relevant in the sport of MMA for several reasons but perhaps none more so than due to the thunderous head-kick she …
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Cody Garbrandt put on a clinic at UFC 207. It has been a few days now since last weekend’s UFC 207, an event that many are still struggling to fully contemplate and digest due to the sheer insanity of what transpired that night. And though it was the quick destruction of Ronda Rousey that grabbed the attention of the masses, …
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MMA is just about as crazy a sport as is realistically possible in this day and age. It’s completely unique in the sense that no matter what you may think going into a fight, there is virtually no way that you can ever be certain about what to expect when the octagon doors close, and for me last Friday’s UFC …
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One of the main talking points in the lead-up to this weekend’s UFC 207 card has been the seemingly short-fused, and somewhat volatile temperament of UFC bantamweight title challenger, Cody Garbrandt, who makes his first attempt to win UFC gold in the co-main event. Garbrandt, who takes on 135-pound legend Dominick Cruz, has been set off repeatedly by his opponent, …
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It almost feels as though the imminent return of the UFC’s former women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey has been underplayed slightly in the past few weeks. Indeed, there is still some time to go until she faces Amanda Nunes in an attempt to reclaim her title, but for many fight fans, the “Rowdy” one has been keeping an uncharacteristically low profile …
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For all the fabricated animosity in the world of MMA, sometimes fight fans have the pleasure of witnessing true hatred between two combatants. It adds an extra layer of intrigue to any match-up and, for the most part, fuels performances that tap into something beyond the competitive drive most would take from. One such relationship can be found between Miesha …
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