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When former bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw left his long-time home in Sacramento’s Team Alpha Male, it created something of a media frenzy, as it was reported again and again that his relationships with his former Team Alpha Male training partners had been damaged irreparably.<\/p>\n

On the latest addition The MMA Hour<\/a>, however, Dillashaw explained that things are not as tense as they seem between him and his former training partners<\/a>. In fact, he was actually quite friendly with many of them during the buildup to UFC 207<\/a>, when he defeated John Lineker<\/a>, and current Team Alpha Male star Cody Garbrandt defeated Dominick Cruz.<\/a><\/p>\n

His words:<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw [the Team Alpha Male guys] a couple times and said what\u2019s up. I think it gets blown out of proportion a bit through the media. And then obviously Alpha Male is going to continue to blow it up because they\u2019re getting a lot of attention from it and they think they\u2019re making themselves look cool, but when we\u2019re face to face, it\u2019s not that big a deal. I\u2019m going to say hi to them. I mean, I feel like I\u2019ve created lifetime friendships with them, and if they\u2019re going to show their true colors all I can do is put a smile on my face and and say what\u2019s up. I\u2019ve got no bad blood. I\u2019ve got no reason no hate those guys other than the sh*t that Urijah was talking, and now the stuff that Cody\u2019s talking. Everyone else, I\u2019ve got some good friends. Danny [Castillo] was out training in Colorado until he got cut from the UFC. I\u2019ve had Justin Buchholz in my corner for every fight except for the last two. He was the one that convinced me to actually make the move out to Colorado and told me that I was doing the right thing. I know those guys know that I did this because of their influences as well. It\u2019s getting blown out of proportion a bit in the media.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Dillashaw went on to explain that he even made the effort to congratulate Garbrandt on his bantamweight title winning defeat of Cruz.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw him walking out, and he was all suited up, and I told him congratulations,” he said. “It\u2019s a big thing, and a huge thing for him. He came to the gym before he was even in the UFC, and for him to come up and perform that well, yeah I told him congratulations, for sure.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While Dillashaw is clearly attempting to keep things civil with his former teammates, it’s very likely that he and Garbrandt fight for the title in the near future. If the two Team Alpha Male veterans do scrap, who do you think wins? Sound off, PENN Nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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