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Dominick Cruz: Det finns inga likheter mellan mig och T.J. Dillashaw

Dominick Cruz blev fråntagen sitt bantamviktsbälte då han var skadad under en längre tid, och i dagsläget återhämtar sig Cruz från ytterligare en knäskada. Planen är att återvända in i oktagonen runt slutet av året, och väl där vill han ta tillbaka titeln.

Detta hade Dominick att säga om den nuvarande titelhållaren T.J. Dillashaw, via ”The MMA Hour”:

Barao was the guy that needed to be built because I wasn’t there. And when T.J. came up, now he’s the guy that needs to get built up because I am not there. That being said, the division has just been trying to strive and build with me gone. Now that I’m coming back, it can get back on its feet again. That’s the truth.

I see absolutely no similarities in my fighting style and T.J. Dillishaw’s. The reason I say that is we do different things. He’s switching stances and I’m not. I am doing something totally different that nobody understands. You can listen to my fights commentary from years ago, and what I was doing was awkward, herky jerky, never seen before. It was just weird. I got this weird style that doesn’t make sense. Now four years later, the game is changed in the last four years. Now you hear commentary on T.J. Dillishaw that he is moving his feet, using feints switching his stance and instead of it being awkward and weird, it’s beautiful to everybody else.

So, the point is, the sport is evolving and people are starting to see the use of switch stances, the use of feints, angles and moving your feet and making people miss. That happened in the last four years since I have been out. Now, my style is being appreciated. When I go out there, people will see that T.J. Dillashaw is nothing but a wannabe and I look forward to going out there and proving that I am the best in the world.

I’m in an extremely awkward position where you can only talk so much and only be so confident on the outside where people are going to listen to you when you can’t go out there and compete. So there is only so much I can really say because I have to sit on my words right now. I have to sit on my hands because I’m injured. So I’m careful with the words I choose because I can’t go in there and compete quite yet. Dillishaw is out there competing, so kudos to him for staying healthy and keeping the division rolling. But, when I come back, the real fights are going to get started and people are going to see what this division is capable of with me as the champion.

Sist vi såg Cruz tog han sig an och slog ut Takeya Mizugaki i första ronden, då de möttes under UFC 178. Det var Dominicks 11:e raka seger sedan förlusten mot Urijah Faber under WEC 26.

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