{"id":333284,"date":"2019-11-26T05:27:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T13:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=333284"},"modified":"2019-11-26T05:27:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T13:27:18","slug":"tj-dillashaw-on-epo-usage-i-sold-my-soul-to-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/tj-dillashaw-on-epo-usage-i-sold-my-soul-to-the-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"TJ Dillashaw on EPO usage: &#8216;I sold my soul to the devil&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Former UFC bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw has opened up on his EPO usage which led to his USADA suspension from earlier this year.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Dillashaw was forced to relinquish his UFC Bantamweight Championship after being handed a two-year suspension as a result of him taking Erythropoietin (EPO). Dillashaw was widely condemned by the mixed martial arts community, but even with that being the case, he&#8217;s already looking ahead to the future and what he can do to improve upon returning to the Octagon.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>During a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XuxuLD9AP6U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"ESPN (opens in a new tab)\">ESPN<\/a>, Dillashaw spoke about the incident and the details behind it.<\/p>\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TJ Dillashaw opens up about EPO suspension | Ariel Helwani&#039;s MMA Show\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XuxuLD9AP6U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cI took an anemia medication called Procrit, which the main ingredient in it was Erythropoietin (EPO). It helps rebuild blood cells,\u201d he said (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2019\/11\/25\/20982504\/ufc-tj-dillashaw-sold-soul-to-devil-failed-drug-test-have-to-build-myself-back-up-mma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"MMA Mania (opens in a new tab)\">MMA Mania<\/a>). \u201cWhen you become anemic, your red blood cells start to plummet and you lose energy. I was on a super strict 1600-calorie day diet and working too hard. I pushed my body to extreme limits,\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cNo excuses. I made the mistake of wanting to do something that hadn\u2019t been done. I sold my soul to the devil and now I got to build myself back up and deal with it.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u201cI was getting down to that bare minimum weight where everything was affecting me. I didn\u2019t want to wake up and train in the morning. I had to lose a bunch more weight and I didn\u2019t want to go to the gym, I didn\u2019t want to run and didn\u2019t want to do what I had to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Dillashaw took the substance in the lead-up to his scheduled UFC Flyweight Championship bout <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dominick-cruz-says-ufc-is-pretty-interested-in-booking-him-against-henry-cejudo-next\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"against Henry Cejudo (opens in a new tab)\">against Henry Cejudo \u2014<\/a> a fight which saw him get finished via TKO in 32 seconds. Cejudo has gone on to claim the Bantamweight Championship, whereas TJ Dillashaw will continue to sit out until he&#8217;s eligible to return.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 11\/25\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw has opened up on his EPO usage which led to his USADA suspension from earlier this year. Dillashaw was forced to relinquish his UFC Bantamweight Championship after being handed a two-year suspension as a result of him taking Erythropoietin (EPO). Dillashaw was widely condemned by the mixed martial arts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54478,"featured_media":309263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10185,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>TJ Dillashaw on EPO usage: &#039;I sold my soul to the devil&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Disgraced former UFC champion TJ Dillashaw has opened up about his EPO usage which led to him receiving a suspension from USADA.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/tj-dillashaw-on-epo-usage-i-sold-my-soul-to-the-devil\/\" \/>\n<meta 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