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Team Alpha Male’s Chris Holdsworth has not fought since May of 2014, when he defeated Chico Camus by unanimous decision. The reason for his prolonged absence has been a series of concussions. It has been widely speculated that these concussions were spurred on by a surprise knee from a former training partner: UFC 217’s TJ Dillashaw.<\/p>\n

On Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour<\/a>, Holdsworth confirmed these rumors, admitting, at long last, that his first concussion was caused by a cheap-shot from his estranged Team Alpha Male stablemate.<\/p>\n

“Yes, so leading up to The Ultimate Fighter, if I can go back a bit… TJ has always been a great fighter, he’s a great athlete, but he’s always had some kind of competitive feud with me ever since I came to the team,” Holdsworth said. “I don’t know if it’s because of envy, or jealousy, or whatever it was, but I always kind of just brushed it off as him being competitive and being ultra-aggressive. So I was just like ok, let’s go. I was always up for the fight, but there was multiple occasions where TJ got a little too aggressive, he went overboard in training. He’s kneeing you while boxing, he’s elbowing you while we’re doing jiu jitsu…<\/em><\/p>\n

“That instance that’s out in the public is definitely true,” Holdsworth continued. “I shot in on TJ, and I was on all fours, he was sprawled out, and he kneed me on top of the head. That was before the Ultimate Fighter. I remember I was kind of jarred up, and everyone was watching. I took like 30 seconds off, but I kept going. I kept going through the rounds and I finished practice, but after that practice I was concussed. That was my first concussion, and it just kind of kept happening from there.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Holdsworth then went one step further, implying that Dillashaw was on a regimen of “special substances” ahead of his first bout with Barao.<\/p>\n

“There was another instance, leading up to the Chico [Camus] fight, when he was getting ready for Barao, then I hear that he’s on some special supplements and stuff, and I just lost respect for the guy. There’s no hard feelings or whatever, but he’s a cheater.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What do you make of Chris Holdsworth’s claims about TJ Dillashaw?<\/p>\n

This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on 10\/30\/2017. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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