{"id":309075,"date":"2019-04-08T19:19:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T02:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=309075"},"modified":"2019-04-08T19:23:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T02:23:01","slug":"patricio-pitbull-says-michael-chandler-didnt-sign-with-ufc-to-avoid-usada-is-doing-same-thing-as-tj-dillashaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/patricio-pitbull-says-michael-chandler-didnt-sign-with-ufc-to-avoid-usada-is-doing-same-thing-as-tj-dillashaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricio Pitbull says Michael Chandler didn’t sign with UFC to avoid USADA, is ‘doing same thing’ as TJ Dillashaw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bellator 221 is set to be a big one as the promotion heads to Chicago, Illinois on May 11 and is headlined by their second ever champion vs champion bout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going at it will be the featherweight and lightweight champions, Patricio ‘Pitbull’ Freire and Michael Chandler. Both of which are two of the most accomplished fighters in Bellator history. Factually, they are<\/em> the most accomplished in their respective divisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brazil’s Pitbull will be coming up in weight as he looks to become Bellator’s second double champ behind Ryan Bader<\/a>. As for his opponent in Chandler, who his older brother, Patricky has become quite familiar with, Patricio doesn’t believe he’s a clean athlete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Chandler’s teammate, the former UFC bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw’s recent dealings with USADA after an ‘adverse finding,’<\/a> it just further aided to Pitbull’s belief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am curious because I believe Michael Chandler is doing the same thing [as Dillashaw],\u201d Patricio Pitbull said (via MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cThis is a fight between champion versus champion and it needs to be fair. In my opinion, they [work with the same people], they\u2019re training partners, and he could be doing the same thing as TJ. Because imagine TJ\u2019s being tested by USADA and he\u2019s in trouble now possibly for adverse findings \u2014 imagine Michael Chandler, who\u2019s not even tested at all, imagine what he could be on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe\u2019s not young anymore, and as he gets older, he keeps getting more ripped and getting more stronger and he looks more like a bodybuilder than a fighter. His legacy is doping. That\u2019s his legacy. He\u2019s done this all by doping. He knows it. He knows he just needs to be random tested and you\u2019ll see. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s why he didn\u2019t join the UFC, because he\u2019s avoiding USADA.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the 32-year old Chandler, when he faces off with the younger Pitbull brother for the first time next month, he’ll be looking to defend his title for the first time since winning the lightweight title for the third time in his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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