The last time T.J. Dillashaw fought Renan Barao it was all about how fast Barao would dispose of Team Alpha Male’s cutest wonder. The skew was simple: Barao hadn’t lost in nine freaking years, a span of some 33 fights. Dana White was calling him the most gooseflesh inducing, most thoroughly dominant pound-for-pound greatest hand-to-hand combat dynamo that ever stormed this here planet of mortals.
In retrospect, White was coming on a bit strong.
Dillashaw clubbed Barao early, picked him apart through the clearing of cobwebs, and finished him in the fifth round.