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Don’t get me wrong, the guy’s an Olympian. How I showed up tonight, this version of me is with all the sparring rounds that I need me training the way I know I can and the way I know I need to, and that’s a different fight with him. Not an excuse, but I know I can show up better. I sparred, I think, 10 times before that fight after shoulder reconstructive surgery. He was supposed to have that fight, so they were training for 12 weeks, 10 weeks before that fight. Aldo got shut out of the country because of the pandemic.

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“He had a full camp for Aldo - I vied for that,” Cruz said. I don’t want to make excuses, it was in the pandemic, you had no training partners, I took that on short notice. “That didn’t do well with me with the way that - like I said, one second (left) on the clock. “I’d definitely prefer to fight Cejudo again,” Cruz said via MMA Mania. That, coupled with UFC 249 being the first fight back after the start of the pandemic, Cruz wants to run things back with Cejudo.

It’s a loss that Cruz disputed right after the fact, saying that referee Keith Peterson stopped the fight prematurely. Speaking with the media after the fight, there were two names Cruz mentioned as a potential next opponent, former UFC featherweight king Jose Aldo and ex-two division UFC champ Henry Cejudo.Ĭruz fought the latter in May 2020 when “Triple C” was the bantamweight champion, and he lost to the Olympian via second-round TKO. The event took place on December 11, 2021, at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.Ĭruz is now 2-0 in 2021 and after the UFC’s official rankings updated on Tuesday, the inaugural UFC 135-pound champ surged to No. One of the bigger storylines coming out of UFC 269 happened during the preliminary card when former UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz put on a vintage performance.Īlthough he was rocked in the first round of his fight with top-ranked contender Pedro Munhoz, Cruz utilized his timing, speed and volume to take over the fight in the second and third frames, winning the match via unanimous decision. Henry Cejudo fight Dominick Cruz at UFC 249 in May 2020.

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