“Cory is really lucky that my knee was messed,” TJ Dillashaw without his knee injury he would’ve stopped Cory Sandhagen
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Cory Sandhagen vs TJ Dillashaw
TJ Dillashaw returned to the octagon after serving a two-year suspension from USADA, he faced the rising contender Cory Sandhagen at the main event of UFC Vegas 32, and after a lot of back-and-forth between these two Dillashaw got the split decision victory over his opponent.
It was a really close fight, and many people believed that it could gave gone either way, but Dillashaw claims that he would’ve knocked Sandhagen out had his knee was in perfect condition, on his recent appearance on Bruce Buffer’s “IT’S TIME!!!” he said, “Cory is really lucky that my knee was messed.”
“When I took his back so many times, because it would have been a different story if I was actually able to lift him or throw my hooks in. When I took his back, I tried doing a couple of trips. But every time – I remember lifting him in the second round, I took his back and my knee completely buckled on me and I was like ‘Oh, we can’t do that anymore.’”
He added, “So, a lot of those back controls would have been – I believe I would have finished him if my leg would have been healthy. But you know what? Maybe it’s better I didn’t. I got to show that I have that grit, I have that comeback mentality, I have that fight-through-adversity, and I showed that my cardio is second to none. No one is going to outpace me. I work harder than everyone. So maybe it worked out in my favor. I built a lot of fans back in that fight.”
“To beat a guy like Cory Sandhagen on one leg, I ain’t going to be mad at that,” says TJ Dillashaw
Dillashaw accepted that he was quite nervous when one judge scored the fight in favor of Sandhagen, “Going into the decision, I heard split – got me a little nervous. But I knew that it was a tough-fought fight,” Dillashaw said. “I knew that Cory did a great job. He definitely did a good job of using his range and his footwork and his striking accuracy and things like that. But you’ve got to remember, this fight is fought on rounds. He did do most of his damage in Round 2 when I came out after I popped my knee.”
“Most of the damage he did in the fight was in Round 2. Even if you give him two rounds, all of the damage he did were in those two rounds he did it in. The other rounds, I was controlling the distance, I was controlling the pace, I was on his back. I won. I did what I had to do on one leg to get that win. To beat a guy like Cory Sandhagen on one leg, I ain’t going to be mad at that.”
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