Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweight ace T.J. Dillashaw was a recent guest on the “MMA Hour” with Ariel Helwani and talked about how he found himself in frantic negotiations to save the UFC 223 card after the main event between Max Holloway and Frankie Edgar was cancelled due to an injury the Hawaiian sustained while training.
Dillashaw was asked to step in to rematch former teammate Cody Garbrandt, but it never happened as negotiations broke down. Dillashaw provided his thoughts on what transpired.
“They just kinda wanted me to save the card, and unfortunately I wasn’t able to,” Dillashaw said Monday on The MMA Hour.