Cody Garbrandt made a successful return to the octagon after beating Trevin Jones in the preliminary card of the UFC 285 pay-per-view. However, his fight wasn’t as exciting as other fights in the show. It garnered a lot of boos from the crowd due to little action. However, the UFC commentator and podcaster, Joe Rogan, did not seem impressed with Cody Garbrandt’s performance.

While commentating, Joe Rogan commended Garbrandt on his comeback fight. He claimed that the former champion did look like a real-world champion in the fight. However, Rogan believes that ‘No Love’ cannot be taken as a serious contender in the division. He said, “This doesn’t give you the confidence to set him [Cody Garbrandt] up with a real contender.”

There were many fans who shared the same sentiment as Joe Rogan regarding Garbrandt’s status as a credible contender in the bantamweight division. However, ‘No Love’ revealed that he suffered from an injury coming into his fight at UFC 285.

Cody Garbrandt claims to have suffered an injury before fighting Trevin Jones

A neck injury could have delayed No Love’s return fight, which he revealed at the post-fight press conference at UFC 285. Garbrandt said, “… there were so many things that were just trying to block and not let me get to the octagon.”

He claimed to have suffered from a neck injury a week prior to UFC 285. “I ended up injuring my neck. (I) had to have a nerve block put in my neck last week,” said Garbrandt. He added that he lost sensation in his left hand as a result. Garbrandt said, “My last takedown of my warm up (on fight day), I ended up slamming my neck, getting a huge stinger, losing full range of motion in my left arm.”

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Garbrandt also said that his neck injury affected the way he was training and affected him during the fight against Trevin Jones. He claims to have battled a lot of hurdles on his way coming back to the UFC.

However, ‘No Love’ was able to break his losing streak and grab his first win in almost three years. But it seems like he will sometime before coming into title contention.

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