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Report: Dominick Cruz vs. Cody Garbrandt Title Fight Targeted For UFC 207

Apparently Amanda Nunes vs. Ronda Rousey won’t be the only title match taking place at the UFC’s year-end pay-per-view in Las Vegas.

Multiple sources are reporting that Dominick Cruz vs. Cody Garbrandt is “in the works” for the December 30th PPV eve…

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Apparently Amanda Nunes vs. Ronda Rousey won’t be the only title match taking place at the UFC’s year-end pay-per-view in Las Vegas.

Multiple sources are reporting that Dominick Cruz vs. Cody Garbrandt is “in the works” for the December 30th PPV event in Nevada, which as noted, will feature a main event of Nunes-Rousey for the UFC Women’s Bantamweight Title.

Cruz defending his UFC Bantamweight Title on the 12/30 fight card had already been rumored after UFC President Dana White all but confirmed the news during a recent appearance on FOX Sports 1. The question was who would get the next shot at the champion — Garbrandt, TJ Dillashaw or someone else.

It looks like “No Love” is the fighter that the UFC has decided to go with.

UFC 207: Nunes vs. Rousey takes place on Saturday, December 30th from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Join us here at MMANews.com on 12/30 for live coverage of the UFC 207 pay-per-view event.

Dominick Cruz vs. Cody Garbrandt Targeted For UFC 207

After months of trash talk, it appears that current UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz and top prospect Cody Garbrandt are finally going to fight. Ariel Helwani of MMA Fighting is reporting that the UFC is planning to book Cruz vs. Garbrandt for the bantamweight title at UFC 207. The promotion has yet to officially announce

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After months of trash talk, it appears that current UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz and top prospect Cody Garbrandt are finally going to fight. Ariel Helwani of MMA Fighting is reporting that the UFC is planning to book Cruz vs. Garbrandt for the bantamweight title at UFC 207. The promotion has yet to officially announce the fight.

Cruz (22-1) hasn’t lost since March 2007 and is coming off a win over Urijah Faber in June to successfully defend the 135-pound title once again. On the other hand, Garbrandt (10-0) is 5-0 inside the world famous octagon with four of his five wins coming by TKO and is fresh off a win over Takeya Mizugaki at UFC 202 in August.

UFC 207 takes place on December 30th at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The prelims will air on UFC Fight Pass and FOX Sports 1 while the main card will air on pay-per-view event. This event will be headlined by the return of Ronda Rousey against newly-crowned women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes. Here is the current card for the event:

* Champion Amanda Nunes vs. Ronda Rousey – for women’s bantamweight title

* Cain Velasquez vs. Fabricio Werdum

* Alex Garcia vs. Mike Pyle

* Sabah Homasi vs. Brandon Thatch

* Tim Means vs. Alex Garcia

* Johny Hendricks vs. Neil Magny

* Matt Brown vs. Tarec Saffiedine

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Cody Garbrandt Hits TJ Dillashaw With USADA Bomb

The top end of the UFC bantamweight division has really come of age in the last few years. The fairy tale story of TJ Dillashaw’s victory against Renan Barao at UFC 173 really engaged fans, who had already been paying close attention to Dominick Cruz. Barao was gunning for legendary status when he claimed Cruz’s

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The top end of the UFC bantamweight division has really come of age in the last few years. The fairy tale story of TJ Dillashaw’s victory against Renan Barao at UFC 173 really engaged fans, who had already been paying close attention to Dominick Cruz. Barao was gunning for legendary status when he claimed Cruz’s vacated belt, and Dillashaw was a huge underdog when they fought. Then it was ‘The Dominator’s’ turn to overcome huge odds. After a run of harrowing injuries meant Cruz had to give up the belt, he returned to reclaim the title from Dillashaw in January of this year.

Completing one of the greatest career comebacks ever, Cruz then defended the belt against old rival Urijah Faber at UFC 199. All the while Dillashaw’s former Alpha Male team mate Cody Garbrandt was gaining steam. ‘No Love’ is now 10-0, five wins deep in to his UFC career including a brutal knockout over Thomas Almeida. After Dillashaw split from TAM to join Duane Ludwig in Colorado, a triangle of beef was formed. Following his quick finish against Takeya Mizugaki, Garbrandt continued his tirades towards ‘The Dominator,’ but he isn’t quite done with TJ either.

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Cody Garbrandt has certainly been living up to his nickname lately. As well as starching his opponents with ruthless precision inside the octagon, ‘No Love’ has been taking aiming at the champions current and former. A growing feud between himself and Dominick Cruz will probably lead to an entertaining title fight, but Garbrandt is still involved in banter with TJ Dillashaw too.

This Instagram post by ‘The Viper’ emerged yesterday, as he offers Dominick Cruz a $100K bet on their next fight. Never one to sleep on an opportunity, Garbrandt dropped the USADA bomb on his old teammate in the comments section. Check it out:

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TJ Dillashaw Blasts Urijah Faber: I Don’t Want To Beat The Guy Up

Earlier this year, a bout between former teammates Urijah Faber and TJ Dillashaw seemed to be a very realistic possibility after Dillashaw left Faber’s Team Alpha Male. Now, however, the former bantamweight champion is no longer interested in a scrap with “The California Kid”. In recent months, Faber has lost two consecutive bouts, one to

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Earlier this year, a bout between former teammates Urijah Faber and TJ Dillashaw seemed to be a very realistic possibility after Dillashaw left Faber’s Team Alpha Male. Now, however, the former bantamweight champion is no longer interested in a scrap with “The California Kid”.

In recent months, Faber has lost two consecutive bouts, one to reigning champ Dominick Cruz last June, and one to Jimmie Rivera earlier this month. Prior to their bout, Rivera had been ranked No. 12, although he scored a dominant decision victory over the highly-ranked Faber.

Due to his recent performances, Dillashaw simply feels as if Faber hasn’t gotten any better over the last few years:

“After he got dominated by a number 12, it doesn’t make sense for me to drop down and fight Urijah,” T.J. said to Inside MMA’s Ron Kruck yesterday. “For one, I don’t wanna beat the guy up. It’s not worth my time. Urijah hasn’t gotten any better in the last – I don’t know how many years. He’s kinda stuck in his ways.”

Faber isn’t the only Team Alpha Male member who Dillashaw has strung up a rivalry of sorts with, as No. 5-ranked Cody “No Love” Garbrandt has also mentioned the ex-champion’s name. In fact, both men are in the running for the next title shot, although Dillashaw doesn’t feel as if “No Love” should be:

“It just doesn’t make sense,” Dillashaw said. “It shouldn’t happen, that’s for sure. He beats the No. 11 ranked fighter and then gets the title fight. How does that make sense when I’m ranked #1….I walked through #2. How does he leapfrog me to get a title shot?”

After losing a closely fought decision to Cruz last January, Dillashaw rebounded with a victory over Raphael Assuncao at July 9’s UFC 200. Who would you like to see him fight next?

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Video: Bantamweight Contender Cody Garbrandt Host Q&A

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Tune in later this afternoon as Cody Garbrandt hosts a live Q&A for UFC 203. The event is scheduled to begin streaming in the video above at 4 p.m. ET form the Quicken Loans Arena in C…

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Tune in later this afternoon as Cody Garbrandt hosts a live Q&A for UFC 203. The event is scheduled to begin streaming in the video above at 4 p.m. ET form the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.

Garbrandt, a member of Team Alpha Male, improved to 10-0 last month with a 48-second finish of Takeya Mizugaki at UFC 202. He is 5-0 since signing with the UFC, holding wins over Thomas Almeida, Augusto Mendes, Henry Briones and Marcus Brimage.

Cody Garbrandt On Bryan Caraway’s Challenge: “He’s A Bigger B*tch Than Dominick Cruz”

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Following his impressive first-round finish of UFC Bantamweight veteran Takeya Mizugaki at the recent UFC 202: Diaz vs. McGregor 2 mega-event, rising UFC 135-pound contender and Team Alpha Male standout Cody “No Love” Garbrandt apparently had a bullseye placed on him by fellow UFC 135-pound contender Bryan Caraway.

It was reported after the UFC 202 pay-per-view that Caraway immediately contacted UFC officials asking for the fight against Garbrandt. “No Love,” who spoke to Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour, is claiming that Caraway turned down a fight with him twice in the past.

“That’s funny because that dude has turned me down twice. That guy turned me down twice. He’s a bigger b*tch than Dominick Cruz. He knows that I’m next in line for a title shot, now he wants to keep his name relevant. All these fighters want to throw their name in with me. They want to throw their name in with the best just to get a chance to get in there, because they know I’m the real deal, they know I’m going to be the next champion, they know I’m the big fight.

“But’s it’s funny, Bryan, you were supposed to be my last fight, but you said you were hurt and that’s why Takeya stepped up and took the fight. So he turned me down twice. The first time because I wasn’t ranked, then this time I think just because I was finally ranked and then he said ‘I was hurt.’ That was before all of this. So that’s funny that he wants to grow some balls and call me out.”

Garbrandt, who has been on an impressive win streak as of late, elaborated on the Caraway issue, claiming he is “not a fighter.” As he describes, Caraway is an opportunist who is attempting to get the most out of a win over a guy in Aljamain Sterling that he says was also “over-hyped.”

“Look, you can’t force fighters to fight. That guy isn’t a fighter. I don’t even know why he’s in the division. I really don’t. I think he should just go and hang it up and be a coach. He don’t want to fight anybody. He doesn’t. He doesn’t want to fight anybody. He got a win over a very over-hyped opponent last time and thinks that he deserves a title shot with that? I don’t think so.”

For highlights of Garbrandt’s first-round knockout of Mizugaki at UFC 202, watch the following video, which shows the finish of their fight by clicking here.

H/T to MMAFighting.com for the above quotes from Cody Garbrandt’s interview on “The MMA Hour.”

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Following his impressive first-round finish of UFC Bantamweight veteran Takeya Mizugaki at the recent UFC 202: Diaz vs. McGregor 2 mega-event, rising UFC 135-pound contender and Team Alpha Male standout Cody “No Love” Garbrandt apparently had a bullseye placed on him by fellow UFC 135-pound contender Bryan Caraway.

It was reported after the UFC 202 pay-per-view that Caraway immediately contacted UFC officials asking for the fight against Garbrandt. “No Love,” who spoke to Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour, is claiming that Caraway turned down a fight with him twice in the past.

“That’s funny because that dude has turned me down twice. That guy turned me down twice. He’s a bigger b*tch than Dominick Cruz. He knows that I’m next in line for a title shot, now he wants to keep his name relevant. All these fighters want to throw their name in with me. They want to throw their name in with the best just to get a chance to get in there, because they know I’m the real deal, they know I’m going to be the next champion, they know I’m the big fight.

“But’s it’s funny, Bryan, you were supposed to be my last fight, but you said you were hurt and that’s why Takeya stepped up and took the fight. So he turned me down twice. The first time because I wasn’t ranked, then this time I think just because I was finally ranked and then he said ‘I was hurt.’ That was before all of this. So that’s funny that he wants to grow some balls and call me out.”

Garbrandt, who has been on an impressive win streak as of late, elaborated on the Caraway issue, claiming he is “not a fighter.” As he describes, Caraway is an opportunist who is attempting to get the most out of a win over a guy in Aljamain Sterling that he says was also “over-hyped.”

“Look, you can’t force fighters to fight. That guy isn’t a fighter. I don’t even know why he’s in the division. I really don’t. I think he should just go and hang it up and be a coach. He don’t want to fight anybody. He doesn’t. He doesn’t want to fight anybody. He got a win over a very over-hyped opponent last time and thinks that he deserves a title shot with that? I don’t think so.”

For highlights of Garbrandt’s first-round knockout of Mizugaki at UFC 202, watch the following video, which shows the finish of their fight by clicking here.

H/T to MMAFighting.com for the above quotes from Cody Garbrandt’s interview on “The MMA Hour.”