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Marlon Moraes still wants T.J. Dillashaw fight: ‘I want to put my hands on him one day’

Top UFC bantamweight Marlon Moraes has said he wants to fight T.J. Dillashaw regardless of the former champion’s two-year suspension for a positive EPO test.

Dillashaw was handed the ban by USADA last month, and he will be ineligible to fight again until January 2021. Moraes, who will fight Henry Cejudo next at UFC 238 for Dillashaw’s relinquished bantamweight title, spoke to MMAWeekly about the question mark that will now be held over Dillashaw’s career.

“My mind as a fan and as a fighter to look up to a guy and he is good but I don’t know was he going to be like that if he wasn’t cheating?