{"id":47431,"date":"2017-11-04T22:23:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T05:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=47431"},"modified":"2017-11-04T22:23:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T05:23:24","slug":"angels-camps-tj-dillashaw-regains-title-as-he-takes-garbrandts-belt-in-ufc-217","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=47431","title":{"rendered":"Angels Camp’s TJ Dillashaw Regains Title as He Takes Garbrandt’s Belt in UFC 217"},"content":{"rendered":"
New York, NY…(UFC.com) After nearly two years in the wilderness as he attempted to regain his UFC bantamweight title,\u00a0TJ Dillashaw<\/a>\u00a0finally got his chance Saturday against a former teammate in\u00a0Cody Garbrandt<\/a>\u00a0and made the most of it, stopping the previously unbeaten Ohio native in the second round of their UFC 217 co-main event at Madison Square Garden.\u00a0 The win was Dillashaw\u2019s third since he lost the belt to\u00a0Dominick Cruz<\/a>, and he expects this time his reign will be even longer than the first one from 2014 to 2016.<\/div>\n
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TJ Dillashaw fights Cody Garbrandt in their UFC bantamweight championship bout during the UFC 217 event at Madison Square Garden on November 4, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Josh Hedges\/Zuffa LLC\/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)<\/span><\/div>\n
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\n\u201cThis is my belt,\u201d said Dillashaw, who had to get through some significant firepower to defeat his heated rival from the Team Alpha Male squad he used to call home.<\/div>\n
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\nStanding mere inches away from each other for most of the first five minutes, Garbrandt and Dillashaw almost dared each other to throw caution to the wind, and while there weren\u2019t too many wild exchanges, when they did decide to throw down, it was Garbrandt holding the edge over the California native, who also got dropped hard to the mat just before the horn. After taking some follow-up shots, Dillashaw rose and tried to laugh off the knockdown, but his legs were still wobbly as he walked to his corner.<\/p>\n

Trying to press his advantage, Garbrandt went on the attack early in round two, but when he saw Dillashaw\u2019s legs were back, he settled down, only to suffer a flash knockdown from a left kick to the head. Garbrandt appeared to be unhurt, but a right hand moments later hurt him and sent him to the deck. Dillashaw pounced, and after a series of unanswered strikes, referee Dan Miragliotta stopped the fight at 2:41 of the second round.<\/p>\n

There were still some tension in the Octagon immediately after the bout, but the two ultimately shook hands, with Dillashaw saying of his foe, \u201cHe\u2019s a helluva fighter, he\u2019ll be back and I\u2019ll see him again.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

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By Thomas Gerbasi<\/span>\u00a0November 04, 2017<\/span><\/div>\n
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New York, NY…(UFC.com) After nearly two years in the wilderness as he attempted to regain his UFC bantamweight title,\u00a0TJ Dillashaw\u00a0finally got his chance Saturday against a former teammate in\u00a0Cody Garbrandt\u00a0and made the most of it, stopping the previously unbeaten Ohio native in the second round of their UFC 217 co-main event at Madison Square Garden.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,20,1,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-angels-camp","category-featured","category-news","category-sports","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/GettyImages-870336790.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}