At UFC 207 Cody ‘No Love’ Garbrandt put on a show against Dominick Cruz for the UFC bantamweight title. The bout went the distance and Cody took home the belt. Not only did Cody beat Cruz but he also made a mockery of him with his dance moves and push-ups inside the octagon.

Cody Garbrandt shows off his new belt with former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson.

Cody wants his next fight to be a real ‘money fight’ with the likes of Jose Aldo or Conor McGregor, he even suggests a rematch with Cruz would be of interest. Former teammate and former champion TJ Dillashaw is also a contender so Dana White says after his recent victory over John Lineker but Cody isn’t interested in the matchup saying “he doesn’t even draw pay-per-view buys”.

On a recent episode of UFC unfiltered Cody voiced his opinions on Dillashaw and it now appears that he may be interested in a fight after all. Money wouldn’t be motivation for this matchup however. Cody threatened to release footage of himself knocking TJ Dillashaw out whilst he was on the show.

“I don’t mind whoopin’ T.J.’s ass,” Cody said. “He was a cancer to our team and having what he tried to do – destroy it – to make that s**t personal too. I’ll spare everybody 60 bucks to buy the pay-per-view and put out the video of me knocking his ass out when I was 1-0. 1-0. He wasn’t saying that he made me cry in practice. That motherf**ker never made me cry. I wasn’t the one looking at the ceiling, being on my back looking at the ceiling, knocked out. So he’s just trying to do anything – the guy’s a horrible trash talker. Horrible.”

Cody and Dillashaw are former training partners who were both members of Team Alpha Male. Dillashaw left the training team shortly after winning the bantamweight championship. Cody still trains with the team but many members split when team owner Urijah Faber and head coach Duan Ludwig fell out. Duan Ludwig left and started his own team at another gym and Dillashaw was one of the members who left with his coach. This caused a lot of friction between the two teams.

“I would get satisfaction from whoopin’ his ass, that’s for sure,” said Cody. “Just for what he did to the team. He sold out. He’s a sellout. He sold his friends, everybody that got him there. He forgot who got him to where he was at. Saw a little bit of money and f**kin’ ran. Ran away. But there was me always there, the uncrowned champ. I was the uncrowned champ when he was there.” “He never even won the title because truly, Cruz never lost it. So T.J. really was never a world champion. They use that ‘former world champion,’ Cruz was the world champion, never lost his belt, and I’m the one that went out there and ripped it from him.”

TJ Dillashaw lost his bantamweight belt back in January of 2016. There was much controversy over the bout against Cruz of which he lost by a split decision. Dillashaw has been working hard to get the belt back and even broke the jaw of iron chinned Lineker when they fought. Dana White says that this “probably” puts him next in line for the next title shot, which will now be against Cody.