UFC bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw leaving Team Alpha Male became official this week, and there’s been relative silence from the man who is the head of the team Dillashaw left: former WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber.
On the Stud Show Radio podcast on Thursday, Faber went into detail about Dillashaw’s decision, what happened and what the future holds. “It’s been hard for everybody,” Faber says. “It’s been really uncomfortable. Obviously, it’s a weird situation. I never really saw it coming.”
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According to Faber, he had heard from an unnamed MMA journalist as well as unsolicited texts from Duane Ludwig that a team in Colorado was poaching members of Team Alpha Male. Faber says he asked Dillashaw and at first didn’t get any indication that he had talked to another team. Eventually, however, Dillashaw revealed he’d be leaving Team Alpha Male and listed some of the reasons for his departure.
“He’s talking about how it’s an amazing opportunity money-wise or whatever,” Faber says. “Pfff, you gotta be kidding me, dude. You could dedicate yourself to mowing lawns for Sanchez Carlino’s business and make the same amount of money if you do it full time.”
Skip to the 1:20 mark on the video above to hear it all.
