Bantamviktsmästaren Dominick Cruz kommer härnäst att ta sig an Cody Garbrandt, då de möts under UFC 207 den 30 december. Cruz anser dock personligen att Garbrandt inte ens tillhör topp 5 i organisationens bantamvikt, och enligt honom har Cody enbart pratat sig till matchen.
Detta hade Dominick att säga om det hela, via ”MMAFighting”:
Plain and simple, he’s not in the top-five of the division. And that’s my job, to go out there and prove it. He did talk himself into this fight, 100-percent, and now it’s my job to go out there and fight him. I want to fight him. I want to fight this man, and that’s why this fight is happening, because it sparks interest. There’s a beef there. This guy’s been running his mouth a lot, so my job is to go out there and shut it for him and show him why he’s nowhere near the level he think he is.
He’s got knockouts on his record, yes, in the first round, yes, but so did Shane Carwin and we all saw what happened to him when he went out there and went past the first round, didn’t we? And that’s what this game is. This is a game where you have to be able to mix it up, and not just (fight for) one round and show how dominant you can be with your power.
I don’t think that he’s smart enough to know if that would even be possible. I honestly believe that. I think he’s literally about as smart as a rock. He’s had multiple concussions. If you look at any of the spelling that he does on any of his stuff, I mean, he wrote ‘plain’ as like a ‘plan.’ He just doesn’t have the intelligence to understand if somebody was in his head. All he knows is he’s either angry at you, or he’s cool with you, and that’s it. And that’s alright. If he wants to be angry with me, that’s fine. I applaud that. I look forward to it. It makes this thing more fun for me.
Sist vi såg Cruz inne i oktogonen tog han sig an Urijah Faber, en match som Dominick tog hem via ett enhälligt domslut under UFC 199.
