T.J. Dillashaw valde nyligen att lämna Urijah Fabers ”Team Alpha Male” och kommer hädanefter att träna på ”Elevation Fight Training” i Colorado, en flytt som rört upp en hel del känslor mellan Dillashaw och Faber. Detta hade Urijah att säga om hela situationen, via ”Stud Show Radio podcast”:
It’s been hard for everybody. It’s been really uncomfortable. Obviously, it’s a weird situation. I never really saw it coming.
I heard T.J. say he gotten taken care of better in college than he does here, whatever that means. That’s ridiculous. He said he wants to come back and be a part of our team, but he made a big boy decision. He walked away from the family that brought him up, the guys who were a big part of his success.
From him making a business decision to go somewhere he feels is going to be better for him, that’s not the right message for the championship team I’m trying to build. That’s not the right message for the little kids to see someone you built into a champion and then he walks away. That’s not a right message when you’re letting him come in and spar guys when he loses self control and actually injures people sometimes.
That’s not how it works for a team I’m trying to build into a tradition of championships. Our team is the best team in the world and I’m going to maintain that and I’m not going to let anybody break that up. If people want to leave, we never ask people to stay if they don’t want to stay. Go ahead and go. If you want to be friends, let’s be friends.
Zuffa’s not going to be like, oh we can’t fight T.J. because he used to train with us. Trust me, this train is going to get blown out of proportion.
Härnäst ser vi Faber inne i oktagonen vid UFC 194, då han möter Frankie Saenz den 12 december.
