Dominick Cruz var tidigare den regerande bantamviktsmästaren i UFC och blev av med bältet när han förlorade mot utmanaren Cody Garbrandt via ett enhälligt domslut.
Garbrandt är nu bokad för ett titelförsvar mot den forne mästaren T.J. Dillashaw och känner att han har gjort sig förtjänh av att möta vinnaren i denna matchen.
Via ’The MMA Hour’:
There are three people that people know and it’s me, T.J., and Cody. And the reason you know us three is because I’ve been fighting these two people, and I’ve been talking about them and I’ve been building them on FOX and giving them a lot of shine and I’ve also been bashing on them, too.
But, the mixture of the entire thing has built the three of us and I think that between the three of us, we can fight for 10 years and probably have a good fight. But, realistically, that’s the fight that makes sense to me. It doesn’t make sense to me to go down in the division. I’m the number one contender now, and to fight backwards in the division, after the amount of title defenses I’ve had in the past, it just doesn’t resonate or make sense to me.
I am here to fight the best in the world and fight for the title. I think I’ve earned that position, and if I got completely to where I wasn’t even in that fight, I would understand, but I was in that fight from beginning to end. In that fifth round, I’d even say that I won. So there still a case for me in this matchup against Cody or T.J., either one.
Cruz gick tidigare med 13 raka vinster innan förlusten mot Garbrandt.
