The good news is Luke Rockhold is moving up to light heavyweight to face Jan Blachowicz at UFC 239! The bad news is that T.J. Dillashaw’s career is in tatters. This was Wednesday morning in the UFC. The news broke in reverse order, of course. Dillashaw posted on his Instagram early that he had “voluntarily relinquished” his bantamweight title after being popped by the New York State Athletic Commission for a banned substance, which really sucks.
But I’ll tell you what, the UFC has mastered the art of the sidetrack; it can counter any ugly headline by pulling a string of colored tissue from its sleeve.