LAS VEGAS – Almost out of nowhere, the talk has sprung up: Renan Barao is the best fighter in the world. Renan
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The odds are overwhelmingly in Barao’s favor as he prepares to defend his bantamweight title on Saturday
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He’s a minus-650 favorite at the MGM Grand sports book and the number could go up before it comes back down.
For weeks, Dillashaw has been asked during interviews about Barao’s greatness. If he were to turn to the Internet to get away from reporters asking incessantly about Barao’s prodigious talents, Dillashaw would find himself being taunted by fans on social media, telling him he has no chance to win.
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Team leader Urijah Faber is 0-6 in his last six world title fights, including two losses to Barao. Joseph Benavidez is 0-3 in championship matches. Chad Mendes is 0-1.
Barao has an exceptionally low-key personality and there is nothing about him that would make a casual fan who hasn’t seen him fight want to buy his pay-per-view, so UFC president Dana White has gone over the top in an attempt to hype him up.
He’s not only the best fighter in the world, White has repeatedly said, he’sjordan shoes also the scariest.
Dillashaw has heard all of this ad nauseam, so much that he laughs about it now.
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865412488523. (Getty Images)”I’m pretty sure I’m going to show up,” he says, chuckling.
The problem with all this, of course, is that in its bid to build up Barao, to elevate his drawing power to something close to his fighting ability, the UFC has effectively ignored Dillashaw.
There are a lot of fighters who have won titles as massive underdogs. Just ask former UFC welterweight champion Matt Serra, who knocked out the legendary Georges St-Pierre to win the title in a bout still considered the greatest upset in UFC history.
Buster Douglas won the boxing heavyweight title as a 42-1 underdog to Mike Tyson in 1990. Evander Holyfield won as a 25-1 underdog to Tyson in 1996.
Becoming the first man to defeat Barao since he was an 18-year-old rookie nine years ago is a massive challenge, to be sure, but it’s not one Dillashaw has shied away from. Barao first emerged on Dillashaw’s radar in the summer of 2012, when he worked the corner for Faber when Faber met Barao in Calgary for the interim bantamweight belt.
Dillashaw’s job that day was to analyze the bout and give advice and suggest adjustments for Faber
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But Dillashaw had a hard time not putting himself in Faber’s place and imagining what he’d do against Barao.
“After watching him fight that fight, I knew the guy was the champ and that’s where I wanted to be and so I had to kind of pay more attention to him than the rest of the guys,” Dillashaw said.
Dillashaw is a wrestler who is used to the grind and battling adversity. Wrestlers generally don’t get intimidated or back down from much, and Dillashaw isn’t going to back down from Barao.
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