Add Dominick Cruz to the small but growing number of fighters who aren’t willing to throw T.J. Dillashaw under the bus after his positive drug test for EPO.

Dillashaw, the former two-time bantamweight champion, voluntarily relinquished his title before the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) handed him a two year suspension (retroactive Jan. 19, 2019) earlier this month.

Former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar has not been inside the Octagon for nearly three years. After testing positive for a banned substance at UFC 200 in 2016, he was slapped with a yearlong suspension and a $250,000 fine.

Israel Adesanya has beaten Kelvin Gastelum by unanimous decision to lift the UFC middleweight interim belt in a fight of the year contender.

The 29-year-old was on the brink of stopping Gastelum in the final seconds of the fight in the co-main event of UFC 236 at State Farm Arena in Atlanta.

Once teammates, Cody Garbrandt and T.J. Dillashaw soon became fierce rivals, with Dillashaw twice getting the better of Cody in UFC men’s bantamweight title fights.

While Garbrandt is now on a three-fight losing streak, he’s somehow in a much better position than Dillashaw, who accepted a two-year USADA suspension after testing positive for EPO (recombinant human erythropoietin). Dillashaw relinquished his title — he was going to be stripped anyway — and of course he’s coming off a 32-second TKO loss to Henry Cejudo in an ill-fated attempt to become flyweight champion.

UFC welterweight Alan Jouban was hoping for a victory for his return to action after more than a year in the sidelines. Instead, what he got was a split decision loss against Dwight Grant in his main card fight at UFC 236 on Saturday night.

Jouban was convinced he had done enough to secure the win, which makes the verdict a lot more difficult to digest.

Top UFC middleweight Kelvin Gastelum is not convinced that his UFC 236 opponent Israel Adesanya has earned his shot at the interim middleweight title.

Gastelum and Adesanya will fight for the interim 185-pound strap in the co-main event of UFC 236 next weekend. A fight between current champion Robert Whittaker and Gastelum was supposed to take place at UFC 234 in February, but Whittaker pulled out on the day of the event and the fight was cancelled.

Khabib Nurmagomedov is eyeing an imminent fight against Dustin Poirier in September.

The UFC lightweight champion congratulated Poirier on his win at UFC 236 in a tweet early Sunday morning. Poirier defeated featherweight champ Max Holloway for the interim 155-pound title in an instant classic Saturday night in Atlanta.

For a couple of years now, former UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo has been looking to retire from MMA and pursue a career in boxing. Now down to two fights left in his UFC contract, these plans are becoming clearer for the 32-year-old Brazilian.