TJ Dillashaw (12-3) förlorade sitt bantamviktsbälte till Dominick Cruz (21-1) på UFC Fight Night 81 och Urijah Faber (33-8) berättar att han tror att Dillashaw blev manipulerad till att byta gym.
Faber berättar att han tycker synd om Dillashaw och känner att han blev manipulerad till att byta camps.
”I feel bad for T.J., because I know what a competitive guy he is, and that guy really trains his butt off,” sa Faber. ”Getting manipulated by people here and there and going for money over where he’s built, that’s all second-hand to the fact that he’s a human being, and he’s an emotional guy, and he’s going to take this really hard.”
Faber medger att han saknar att vara en mentor åt Dillashaw och förklarar att när Dillashaw fick veta att han inte kunde vara i gymmet då han inte tränade där mer, började Dillashaw rekrytera fighters till sitt nya gym.
”When he lost to (Raphael) Assuncao, I had to give him a pep talk,” sa Faber. ”I asked him, ‘How are you doing?’ And he said, ‘Pretty down and out.’ All I said was, ‘You can’t be so emotionally invested with a win or loss like that, otherwise, you’re not going to enjoy this thing and that’s going to hurt you.’ He was like, ‘Thank you.’ I’ve been mentoring that guy, so I feel for him.”
”It’s a weird situation,” sa Faber. ”I don’t foresee that. What he started to do, once I told him he couldn’t be in the gym because he’s not on the team, he started recruiting our guys. It’s like this cancer, where you give someone a little bit of doubt or fear in your mind, that stuff’s contagious.”
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