Tränaren Duane ”Bang” Ludwig gick nyligen ut och hävdade att T.J. Dillashaw var den enda på ”Team Alpha Male” som faktiskt ville vara mästare, och det är ett uttalande som Ludwig nu ber om ursäkt för. Här förklarar Duane varför han sade som han gjorde, via ”The MMA Hour”:
I love you guys. Sorry for being stupid. I say some stupid stuff sometimes. And they’re training at their full potential. T.J. just really wants it. If you look at it in comparison, there’s a difference. If someone is training a certain way — and not just coming out to Colorado — it’s the focus and the intensity and the desire in the room. You can just see it, you can feel it. And it’s just different with T.J.
They train their butts off and for me to say they don’t want to be champ, that’s not fair. That’s not actually true. T.J. just puts in a little extra effort, a bit more focus and a bit more desire. That’s what I see and that’s what I was truly meaning, not to discredit anybody.
I don’t think, I know that Chad Mendes and Joseph Benavidez will be champions, they can be champions. The only thing that’s separating them is just a little more focus and desire. Everybody wants to be champion, but he wants it the most. That’s what I should have fucking said.
Dillashaw besegrade nyligen Renan Barao via TKO för andra gången i karriären, då de möttes under ”UFC on FOX 16” i Chicago.
