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UFC bantamweight Cody Garbrandt has reiterated his desire to fight Jose Aldo after a recent back and forth over social media.<\/p>\n

Garbrandt hasn’t been seen inside the Octagon since his remarkable knockout win over Raphael Assuncao at UFC 250 last June. Garbrandt was initially expected to move down in weight to battle Deiveson Figueiredo for the Flyweight Championship in November, but “No Love” tore his bicep and also contracted COVID-19 – with the lingering effects of the latter delaying his return.<\/p>\n

Aldo, on the other hand, was able to break a three-fight losing streak in December with an impressive unanimous decision win over Marlon Vera.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cody_Nolove\/status\/1361924155218665472<\/p>\n

“We doing this @josealdojunior,” Garbrandt wrote. “@danawhite We both say send the contracts”.<\/p>\n

While Garbrandt may be focused on the task of battling Aldo right now, a recent interview<\/a> seems to indicate that he hasn’t taken his eyes off of a potential trilogy fight against rival TJ Dillashaw.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like T.J. caught me at a time where mentally I was not in the best state of mind to go in there and be a champion and that\u2019s why it was taken from me,\u201d Garbrandt said (via\u00a0MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cHe capitalized and I look back on it, I kept going back to those fights, and it\u2019s a little bit of insanity. You have to be insane to repeat the same thing expecting a different outcome and that\u2019s what I was doing\u2026 Looking back, hindsight is 2020 always in a fight, but I\u2019m thankful for that. I feel like if I would have went off and defended the title, I probably wouldn\u2019t have been as hungry and motivated as I am today and that\u2019s going to help me out for the next five years of my career or however long I\u2019m going to fight for.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not to say I didn\u2019t like T.J. I don\u2019t agree with a lot of the things that happened but that\u2019s so far in the past, I\u2019m passed that,\u201d Garbrandt added. \u201cBut definitely, taking that in there, my mental state was not what it should have been to go against a guy like T.J. We can fast forward to when he got popped and this and that, T.J. can be on that stuff. He can be on that stuff and he still can\u2019t beat me when I\u2019m focused and I\u2019m mentally there and I\u2019m in there and I\u2019m excited. I\u2019m glad that he\u2019s coming back. He\u2019s got to prove to himself and that\u2019s a big fight for me to come back to in the future. That\u2019s gonna happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Who do you want to see Cody Garbrandt fight next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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