T.J. Dillashaw var tidigare bokad för ett möte med den nuvarande bantamviktsmästaren Cody Garbrandt under UFC 213, men matchen kommer inte bli av då Garbrandt har skadat ryggen och blev tvungen att dra sig ur.
Man föreslog då att den regerande flugviktsmästaren Demetrious Johnson skulle möta Dillashaw i en supermatch, något som Dana White är mycket positiv till. Johnson vill dock inte gå med på ett möte.
I det senaste avsnittet av UFC Unfiltered berättar White att han är frustrerad över denna situationen och menar att Johnson inte har rätt till att bestämma vilken match han ska gå.
I have this fight with Demetrious Johnson right? Where he’s about to break the record. Anderson Silvas record for most title defenses. And T.J. Dillashaw can’t fight Cody ’No Love’ because Cody screwed up his back, he’s not going to be back for a while.
Dillashaw says he can make the weight and is already working on it, he says ’I can stop him from breaking that record’. T.J.’s gonna go down to 25 to stop DJ from breaking that record, but DJ does not want to fight him. Why? You tell me.
Why? It’s insanity. This is the first fight ever in DJ’s history that he actually gets paid to fight pay-per-view. He gets pay-per-view for this one, and it’s the first real fight people want to see him and gets pay-per-view, and he is refusing to fight T.J. Dillashaw.
Johnson vill hellre möta Ray Borg i sin nästa match.
He says he wanna fight Ray Borg next. What’s his rank, like 5 or 6? Dillashaw is a former world champion, coming down from the weight class above him, who’s next in line for the title. Absolutely he’s next in line for the title. It’s nothing against Ray Borg.
At the end of the day, you know how I am with that stuff. Unfortunately, DJ, you don’t make the fights around here. I do, so. That’s the fight we’re pushing for.
That’s the fight. We talked to T.J. Dillashaw yesterday. It’s the fight he wants, he’s ready, he’s already cutting weight for it. It’s probably going to be in august. It will probably be august 19th.
