LOS ANGELES -- Just about any fighter who makes it to a championship level will tell you it wasn’t the money that got them into the game in the first place, but rather the drive to become the best in the world at what they do.
Such was the case for former UFC bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt, who will have the opportunity to regain the championship he lost to T.J. Dillashaw when the duo square off in their rematch Saturday night in the main event of UFC 227 at Staples Center.
“My money thing, I never wanted to have my motivation to be money, that’s not why I got into this sport, I got into it to be a world champion,” Garbrandt told reporters at a media event Monday.