Dillashaw: I don’t believe Garbrandt has got a chin

UFC bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw stopped former division champ Cody Garbrandt for the second time in a row at UFC 227 on Saturday night. At the post-fight press conference the champ said he thinks Garbrandt plays a dangerous game, and doesn’t have a chin.

Both fights played out in similar fashion, with Dillashaw taking and weathering Garbrandt’s vaunted power and then stopping him.

I think he has some technical problems that he needs to fix, said Dillashaw, as transcribed byMarc Raimondi for MMA Fighting. And I really don’t believe he’s got a chin. He plays a dangerous game. He likes to get in there and he likes to slug it.

We were planning on him throwing a right hand. Every time he throws a right hand, he drops his left. He’s looking to throw a left hook. He’s fast. He throws a big right, left hand. But he drops it to his pocket. So were planning on timing it.”

Garbrandt argued with referee Herb Dean about the stoppage, but it was a good one.

I wasn’t going to let off, said Dillashaw said. There’s no way. I’m too mean. I’m gonna go until I win. I didn’t have a problem giving him a little extra, too. That knee was a pretty hard knee. I felt that one and that finished him off.

I’m in too good of shape to let up the throttle. He’s not gonna be able to recover. I’m gonna be able to push the pace always.

Dillashaw also believes Garbrandt has a poor chin, but doesn’t base it on the time they trained together at Team Alpha Male.

It wasn’t anything in sparring, Dillashaw said. Cody was coming into the team as I was leaving, so we didn’t really get to work out as much as has been in the media. It was more when I hit him in the first fight with my foot. I dropped him with that left kick. I didn’t feel like that left kick had anything on it, but it affected him.