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Dillashaw: Faber outlandish $#!@ crossed the line
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<p>T.J. Dillashaw fights <span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Raphael </span>Assuncao<span style="line-height: 20.8px;"> at UFC 200; the winner could go on to fight champion Dominick Cruz. Dillashaw's former teammate Urijah Faber fought Dominick Cruz at UFC 197, losing valiantly. However, in the lead up to the fight, Faber implied that both Cruz and Dillashaw were at least sometime PED users.</span></p>
Dillashaw appeared recently on Ariel Helwani's The MMA Hour, and was not impressed with the remarks.
"I knew that Cruz's footwork and feints and movement was going to be too much for Faber," said Dillashaw, as transcribed by Luke Thomas for MMA Fighting. "He's a very flat-footed fighter and hasn't been making any gains. He's kinda been the same fighter for the last ten years. I knew that Cruz was going to pick him apart."
"Yeah, I definitely don't think [Faber] is going to get the belt. He might get another shot. Who knows? I don't really know. He's going to have to work his way back up, which I think is going to be really hard in this division. You've got a lot of tough kids in the weight class.
"I think it's going to be tough to get back up there. He's towards the end of his career. He's already done the right things in looking to what he should do next. He's already set himself up pretty. He's a smart guy when it comes to business."
"I kinda feel like Urijah's been building his name off of me the last couple of years, ever since I won the belt. With me and Duane [Ludwig] and The Ultimate Fighter thing and Conor [McGregor], it's just been bad mouthing me to make him look more relevant. It was a little bit unfortunate because I thought we were friends. I thought we were good friends. Just because I followed a coach that I thought has made my career better - left a bad taste in his mouth. It's just unfortunate the way everything went down. Kinda crazy, actually. Very childish."
"I didn't think there'd be any time in my life ever that'd I'd be not only rooting against Faber - especially against Cruz - but he just crossed the line, man. He stepped the boundaries with the stuff he said, the kind of person he became. Like I said, it was childish and it actually kinda hurt my feelings, man. I really don't feel like I've done anything to deserve it, just because I'm training elsewhere and following my career and doing what I think is best for myself. It's kinda crazy for him to badmouth me.
"Also for him to come out with some outlandish s*** to say to me and Cruz were on PEDs. That's bad mouthing my career. That's putting a bad taste in people's mouth about my name. That kinda crossed the line with me."
Dillashaw was asked if he had reached out to Faber privately, to try to put the dispute behind them.
"At this point, no," he said. "Everyone's got their own story. He probably believes something else, but I don't feel like it's my fault to apologize.
"I'm hoping he feels he's done the wrong, but who knows?"
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