UFC president Dana White spoke recently about Saturday’s event with ESPN MMA’s Brett Okamoto, and the conversation turned to T.J. Dillashaw. The disgraced former two-time UFC bantamweight champion has returned from a two-year suspension for injecting EPO into his butt cheek, and would like to get a title fight vs. the winner of champion Petr Yan vs. Aljamain Sterling on Saturday night.

That’s not happening, but White said Dillashaw is one fight away from a title fight.

We’re working on something for T.J. right now that would line him up, said White, as transcribed by Mike Heck for MMA Fighting. The winner of that fight would fight for the title next.

Late last month Dillashaw appeared on the Real Quick with Mike Swick podcast, and 

“The ultimate goal for me is to be the champion,” he said. “The greatest things come to you when you’re champion, the goal is to be champion, so why not get out there and get it done.

I’m in a good situation. I think everyone in the top five has called me out. I want to come back and fight the best. I’m 35 years old now, I’ve got a lot of things in life going on, so I want to come back and prove that I’m the best bantamweight of all time, and I want to come back and fight the best. If that’s for the belt right away then so be it. If that’s fighting someone else in the top five, awesome.

Every person that’s called me out, I’ve said yes to the UFC, so that’s just showing them that I’m eager to get back in there. So it doesn’t really matter as long as it’s someone that’s at the top of the game, because I’m gonna climb up and get that belt back fast.

UG, here’s the top 10 contenders:
1. Aljamain Sterling
2. Cory Sandhagen
3. Rob Font
4. Cody Garbrandt
5. Jose Aldo
6. Marlon Moraes
7. Frankie Edgar
8. Pedro Munhoz
9. Raphael Assuncao
10. Jimmie Rivera

Who do you think Dillashaw gets for the #1 contender fight?