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Conor McGregor’s comments about UFC bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw being a “snake” for leaving Team Alpha<\/a> Male didn’t go over too well with the champ.<\/p>\n

Dillashaw left Urijah Faber’s Team Alpha Male to join the newly assembled Elevation Fight Team<\/a> in Denver, Colorado. As Dillashaw sees it, the decision wasn’t for McGregor to judge.<\/p>\n

Dillashaw spoke on The MMA Hour<\/a> to fire back at McGregor.<\/p>\n

“Yeah, pretty crazy. It was just timing\u2026timing\u2019s everything I guess on that, and it all happened at the time when Conor called us out. It\u2019s actually kind of ridiculous for him to call me a \u2018snake\u2019 or a \u2018traitor,\u2019 when the fact is I made a business decision. I feel like that\u2019s\u2026that\u2019s like Conor saying it\u2019s making business decisions, it\u2019s all about business, it\u2019s the fight business.”<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m getting told I\u2019m a snake because I make a business decision for my career. That\u2019s just pretty hypocritical, it\u2019s very hypocritical to me when other people believe what he says.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Dillashaw took his response one step further when he questioned McGregor’s loyalty to his home country of Ireland.<\/p>\n

“If I\u2019m a traitor, I feel like [McGregor]\u2019s an even bigger traitor to his country. He went to Ireland, and he\u2019s a big country man, and then he lives in the United States now. He moved to Las Vegas. Why? It\u2019s better for his career. It\u2019s business. And so, I put it so everyone understands, I\u2019m just trying to stay on top and I want to become the best MMA fighter possible and I need coaches to do so. Right now in Sacramento, I\u2019m teaching kickboxing classes, Martin Kampmann\u2019s moving home. He was a great mitt-man and a boxing coach, but he\u2019s a boxing coach. We have to coach each other at Team Alpha Male right now, and that\u2019s a big problem for me.”<\/p>\n

“Ultimately, it was a business decision. I\u2019m going to have these haters out there, but haters are gonna hate.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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