{"id":310588,"date":"2019-04-22T08:30:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T15:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=310588"},"modified":"2019-04-22T06:03:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T13:03:34","slug":"joseph-benavidez-surprised-tj-dillashaw-wasnt-caught-sooner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/joseph-benavidez-surprised-tj-dillashaw-wasnt-caught-sooner\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Benavidez ‘surprised it took that long’ for TJ Dillashaw to get caught"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TJ Dillashaw is no longer the UFC bantamweight champion. He surrendered that title when he tested positive for EPO, an injectable-only performance-enhancing drug, and was suspended for two years by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many members of the MMA community were shocked to learn of Dillashaw’s PED use. But not everybody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joseph Benavidez, a former training partner of TJ Dillashaw at Team Alpha Male, is only surprised it took Dillashaw so long to get caught. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI wasn\u2019t surprised at all that he finally got caught,\u201d Benavidez told MMA Junkie over the weekend (transcript via MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cWasn\u2019t surprising at all. There\u2019s nothing I can really say as far as, like, that hasn\u2019t already been said. I\u2019m not gonna sit here and say the guy is this and that because if you look at the internet and everyone, it\u2019s already been said. So there\u2019s nothing worse you can say than what everyone already thinks, which I think is warranted. Everything that people are out there giving him, it\u2019s 100 percent warranted for what he did.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt just goes to show, there\u2019s consequences for what you do and you can\u2019t hide who you are forever,\u201d Benavidez added. \u201cI\u2019m surprised it took that long for him to get caught, and hid what he\u2019s about this long. But you can\u2019t hide that stuff forever. It\u2019s great that it came out. There are consequences and if anything, I don\u2019t think the consequences are that much. It\u2019s not that bad. Get some surgeries. You got paid the day after the fight anyway. So it\u2019s not like you\u2019re getting suspended for the year. But like I said, it\u2019s all the other things. All the disgrace and everything that is warranted, and maybe hurts more.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you make of these comments from Joseph Benavidez on the TJ Dillashaw situation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article first appeared on <\/em>BJPENN.COM<\/em><\/a> on 4\/22\/2019. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TJ Dillashaw is no longer the UFC bantamweight champion. He surrendered that title when he tested positive for EPO, an injectable-only performance-enhancing drug, and was suspended for two years by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). Many members of the MMA community were shocked to learn of Dillashaw’s PED use. But not everybody. 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