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- Updated: June 1, 2016
Cody Garbrandt picked up a major win for Team Alpha Male when he knocked out Brazilian super-prospect Thomas Almeida on Sunday in the main event of UFC Fight Night 88.
The breakout performance was the perhaps the biggest boost Garbrandt’s team has gotten since its heavily publicized split with former UFC champion T.J. Dillashaw, and for the squad’s founder and leader Urijah Faber — who challenges for the bantamweight title at UFC 199 — it couldn’t have come at a better time.
“It does (help),” Faber said Tuesday on The MMA Hour. “It’s been a rocky year, as far as emotionally for me, because I really put my heart and soul into building a great culture and a great team. We went through a divorce, in my opinion at the hands of greed, which I hate to see. So to see the renewed enthusiasm for what we’ve built here, with guys like Justin Buchholz stepping up, guys like Danny Castillo stepping up, guys like Chris Holdsworth and Fabio Prado and Coach Joey and Master Thong, the list goes on — we’ve got so many great contributors to our team, and Cody is such a good guy, man.”
Garbrandt entered the match against Almeida as an unranked fighter, but left with a No. 7 ranking in the UFC’s media-generated …
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