{"id":113213,"date":"2014-09-22T12:34:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T19:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/?p=113213"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:24:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:24:54","slug":"urijah-faber-of-course-i-still-want-to-fight-dominick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/urijah-faber-of-course-i-still-want-to-fight-dominick\/","title":{"rendered":"Urijah Faber: &#8220;Of Course I Still Want To Fight Dominick&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Urijah-Faber-Wins.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Urijah-Faber-Wins.png\" alt=\"Urijah Faber Wins\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-103973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Urijah-Faber-Wins.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Urijah-Faber-Wins-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Urijah-Faber-Wins-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Saturday, former UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz will be returning to the Octagon after a three year long absence.  The UFC Cruz is returning to is nothing like the one he left.  Since his absence, in the bantamweiht division alone, Renan Barao became champion, defended his belt 3 times, and then lost to TJ Dillashaw, who has defended the belt once.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that hasn&#8217;t changed however, is Cruz&#8217;s greatest rival, Urijah Faber.  Faber spoke with <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2014\/09\/video-urijah-faber-of-course-i-want-to-fight-dominick-cruz-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie<\/a> about the possibility of fighting Cruz once again.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOf course I still want to fight Dominick.  I hope that he comes back and performs well. \u2026 I hope it\u2019s a great fight and we\u2019re going to see Dominick leaving off right where (he was when he) got injured. You never know in this sport, but I\u2019m sure that\u2019s a fight that will happen.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cruz and Faber first faced off in the WEC back in 2007, with Faber capturing the win by guillotine.  In the pair&#8217;s second meeting, Cruz won via unanimous decision back in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to see the pair go at it for a third time?<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/author\/evan-stoumbelis\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Evan Stoumbelis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday, former UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz will be returning to the Octagon after a three year long absence. The UFC Cruz is returning to is nothing like the one he left. Since his absence, in the bantamweiht division alone, Renan Barao became champion, defended his belt 3 times, and then lost to TJ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":103973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[291,9,11,15,8705,1045],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Urijah Faber: &quot;Of Course I Still Want To Fight Dominick&quot; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/urijah-faber-of-course-i-still-want-to-fight-dominick\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Urijah Faber: &quot;Of Course I Still Want To Fight Dominick&quot; | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This Saturday, former UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz will be returning to the Octagon after a three year long absence. 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