Former UFC bantamweight champion, Dominick Cruz, is planning to retire from combat sports after scoring “one last dance” inside the Octagon. No word yet on who “The Dominator” will fight, but it sounds like Henry Cejudo is volunteering to throw down.
Cejudo stopped Cruz at UFC 249.
“Dominick Snooze, the only thing I only remember about Dominick Cruz is when I put that freaking knee on top of his freaking dome,” Cejudo said on his Pound 4 Pound podcast. “That’s the only thing I remember [about] him. He woke up and was like ‘alcohol and cigarettes’, and he starts blaming the referee when he had 13 unanswered shots.”
Let’s hope Keith Peterson is not assigned as referee.
“I actually like that fight,” Cejudo continued. “If the UFC wants to make it, let’s make it happen. But as I told you before, as I told [Mario] ‘Bum’tista, and everybody else, I don’t want to get into a fight with Hunter [Campbell] anymore. I’m allowing Hunter to really pick the fight. If he wants to give Dominick Cruz that fight, let’s do it.”
Cruz (24-4) has not competed since a knockout defeat to Marlon Vera at UFC San Diego back in summer 2022. As for Cejudo (16-4), he’s looking to rebound from back-to-back decision losses to Aljamain Sterling (UFC 288) and Merab Dvalishvili (UFC 298).