Cory Sandhagen predicts a bantamweight title shot isn’t far out of reach despite his loss to T.J. Dillashaw at UFC on ESPN 27 . Sandhagen (14-3 MMA, 7-2 UFC) experienced a heartbreaking split decision loss to Dillashaw (17-4 MMA, 13-4 UFC) in Saturday’s bantamweight headliner at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. It went down to the wire, with judges scoring it three rounds to two across the board. Although Dillashaw had a lot of successful moments in the fight, Sandhagen thought he absorbed less damage and did more over the course of 25 minutes. “I know I had him hurt more times than me,” Sandhagen told Megan Olivi on the UFC on ESPN 27 post-fight show
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