Dillashaw: McGregor's a 'traitor to his country'

Conor McGregor has been at the center of the feud between T.J. Dillashaw and his former teammates at Team Alpha Male.

While it was slowly becoming clear that Dillashaw was planning his exodus from the Sacramento-based gym in favor of the (monetarily) greener pastures of Elevation Fight Team in Colorado, McGregor delighted in needling Dillashaw and Team Alpha Male head honcho Urijah Faber.

Coaching opposite Faber on the latest season of "The Ultimate Fighter," McGregor warned "The California Kid" that Dillashaw was a traitor and "a snake in the grass."

Dillashaw fired back at McGregor in kind.

"If I'm a traitor, I feel like (McGregor)'s an even bigger traitor to his country," Dillashaw told The MMA Hour, according MMAFighting.com. "He went to Ireland, and he's a big country man, and then he lives in the United States now. He moved to Las Vegas. Why? It's better for his career. It's business. And so, I put it so everyone understands, I'm just trying to stay on top and I want to become the best MMA fighter possible and I need coaches to do so. Right now in Sacramento, I'm teaching kickboxing classes, Martin Kampmann's moving home. He was a great mitt-man and a boxing coach, but he’s a boxing coach. We have to coach each other at Team Alpha Male right now, and that’s a big problem for me."

The UFC bantamweight champion, Dillashaw's move to Colorado came with the promise of more money and the chance to be closer to Duane Ludwig, the former head coach at Team Alpha Male, who helped shepherd Dillashaw's career to the next level.