TJ Dillashaw Questions Legitimacy Of Cody Garbrandt’s Back Injury

In an interview with the Fight Society podcast, TJ Dillashaw questioned whether or not Cody Garbrandt’s back injury was even real. Here are highlights:

On wanting the fight with Garbrandt: “Trust me, I want the Cody fight as well but he’s injured, I guess you can say.”

On Garbrandt’s back injury: “It’s just the fact that I’ve seen him drunk and wrestling around with his buddies while his back is supposedly hurt doing rehab. There’s some posts that I got tagged in or got sent to me when I woke up one morning, of him getting all drunk with his buddies and him getting into a full blown wrestling match on the ground with Danny Castillo. It’s kind of crazy. If it was hurting you to walk, and you couldn’t take the title fight, then you should probably be doing some rehab.”

On why Garbrandt wouldn’t want to fight him: “He does not want to fight me because he’s scared to lose the belt. I respect Demetrious Johnson as a person. I like him, I like his wife. But by him acting this way and turning down the fight, he’s really tarnishing his career and reputation in my eyes.”