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‘No shame’ - Urijah Faber explains how ‘shady’ T.J. Dillashaw ‘took a calculated risk’ with PED use

Since T.J. Dillashaw left Team Alpha Male in 2015, he’d developed a publicized feud with his former mentor Urijah Faber. “The California Kid” most recently put the former UFC bantamweight champion on blast for being a “cheap shot guy” and a “crafty cheat.”

These comments obviously stem from Dillashaw’s EPO scandal in 2019 that subsequently sidelined him for the next two years of his career. In that same interview with Submission Radio, the former WEC featherweight champion shared his theory on what could’ve led Dillashaw down that path.

I mean, when you’re in a room with a bunch of guys with a lot of natural gifts and you can pinpoint where you lack, I think he was like, ‘You know what, I don’t have a chance unless…’

And it wasn’t because he didn’t think he can.