Several members of the team have spent time training with Dillashaw for this fight in Colorado. Ludwig had been the head coach for the Faber-led Team Alpha Male in Sacramento, Calif., before they parted ways.ĭillashaw says he had still hoped to be a part of the team when he was in town, but that Faber banned him from the gym. I’m not going to look like a jackass.”Ī win over Cruz would almost certainly thrust Dillashaw into a circuslike atmosphere for his next fight as it would likely mean a matchup with Urijah Faber.ĭillashaw and Faber had a falling out last year when Dillashaw announced he would follow coach Duane Ludwig to a new gym in Colorado. “I want to look back on my career and know that I made the right choices and portrayed myself the way I wanted to be portrayed. I’m not one of these guys that’s gonna do the WWE or Conor McGregor route just to make money.

“It’s just that I’m a martial artist and I like to show respect. “It’s funny that Dom likes to say that I don’t talk crap because I’m not very smart, but I’m the one with a college degree,” the champion said.

That comment finally appeared to bother Dillashaw. “It doesn’t mean he won’t be ready to fight on that day.” He’s the type of guy that would rather fight than talk and I think that’s just because he’s not that smart,” Cruz said, unable to fight off the urge to get in another jab. In the end, however, he knows all that matters is what happens in the cage. It all just comes down to the night of the fight.”Ĭruz said promoting the fight is a big part of the job, especially fighters at the championship level and thinks one day Dillashaw will understand that. “Just let him talk crap and look like an idiot. “You have to laugh it off,” Dillashaw said. “I’m just not one of those guys,” Dillashaw said on a conference call of his disinterest in verbally sparring with Cruz before their UFC Fight Night 81 bout at TD Garden in Boston. It’s more like a one-sided military campaign rampaging through a disinterested enemy force.Ĭruz is lobbing missiles and flying sorties as Dillashaw just watches the chaos happen all around. Dillashaw and former champ Dominick Cruz a war of words would demonstrate quite a lack of understanding of the term “war.” To call the buildup to Sunday’s Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweight title bout between champion T.J. TJ Dillashaw celebrates after defeating Renan Barao during UFC 173 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday, May 24, 2014.

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