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Henry Cejudo’s coach: T.J. Dillashaw positive test ‘throws a wrench in our plans’

Henry Cejudo’s head coach said T.J. Dillashaw’s positive drug test changes things up for the current flyweight champ.

Eric Albarracin said he was disappointed to learn that an “adverse finding” was found in a Dillashaw drug sample in relation to Dillashaw’s January loss to Cejudo at UFC Brooklyn. Dillashaw announced the news on social media Wednesday morning and said he planned to relinquish the UFC bantamweight title.

“This sucks,” Albarracin wrote in a written statement sent to ESPN’s Ariel Helwani. “Henry wanted that rivalry/money fight and the 135-pound belt and to shut the critics up once and for all.