{"id":182061,"date":"2016-01-09T12:42:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T20:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=182061"},"modified":"2016-01-09T12:43:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T20:43:17","slug":"dominick-cruz-only-your-true-believers-stick-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dominick-cruz-only-your-true-believers-stick-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominick Cruz:  &#8220;Only your true believers stick with you&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Only your true believers stick with you through the amount of injuries I have sustained. Thank You <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MonsterEnergy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MonsterEnergy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6TcHdh6gKO\">pic.twitter.com\/6TcHdh6gKO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dominick Cruz (@DominickCruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DominickCruz\/status\/685325824761856000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There was a point in<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/must-see-in-depth-breakdown-of-dominick-cruzs-footwork-and-counter-striking\/\"> Dominick Cruz&#8217;s career<\/a> that it started to look unlikely that he would be returning to competition after he re-injured his knee back 2012. \u00a0 \u00a0Cruz has since been healthy after his last successful knee surgery and appears to be in top form heading into the title bout with champ TJ Dillashaw next week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/dominick-cruz-more-on-tj-dillashaw-you-can-dress-up-a-turd-but-it-still-stinks-ufc-fn-boston\/\">Dillashaw has been under an onslaught<\/a> of verbal abuse from Cruz prior to their match-up, however, Cruz has made great points about the match-up, Cruz considers that both men will have trained, prepared and conditioned themselves for the title bout leaving the &#8220;mental&#8221; edge factor the difference between who wins and who loses Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Will Dillashaw make it three title defenses? \u00a0 Will the &#8220;Dominator&#8221; pick up where he left off with another W and the gold?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only your true believers stick with you through the amount of injuries I have sustained. Thank You @MonsterEnergy pic.twitter.com\/6TcHdh6gKO &mdash; Dominick Cruz (@DominickCruz) January 8, 2016 There was a point in Dominick Cruz&#8217;s career that it started to look unlikely that he would be returning to competition after he re-injured his knee back 2012. \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":157414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[],"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>Dominick Cruz: &quot;Only your true believers stick with you&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\/dominick-cruz-only-your-true-believers-stick-with-you\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dominick Cruz: &quot;Only your true believers stick with you&quot; | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Only your true believers stick with you through the amount of injuries I have sustained. Thank You @MonsterEnergy pic.twitter.com\/6TcHdh6gKO &mdash; Dominick Cruz (@DominickCruz) January 8, 2016 There was a point in Dominick Cruz&#8217;s career that it started to look unlikely that he would be returning to competition after he re-injured his knee back 2012. \u00a0 [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dominick-cruz-only-your-true-believers-stick-with-you\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"| BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-01-09T20:42:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-01-09T20:43:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Dillashaw-Cruz.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"730\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"380\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"bjpenndotcom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@bjpenndotcom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@bjpenndotcom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"bjpenndotcom\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dominick-cruz-only-your-true-believers-stick-with-you\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dominick-cruz-only-your-true-believers-stick-with-you\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"bjpenndotcom\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/person\/7c8b8d1602cb47040b7a5cd250d5b90a\"},\"headline\":\"Dominick Cruz: &#8220;Only your true believers stick with you&#8221;\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-01-09T20:42:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-01-09T20:43:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dominick-cruz-only-your-true-believers-stick-with-you\/\"},\"wordCount\":148,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"UFC NEWS\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2016\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dominick-cruz-only-your-true-believers-stick-with-you\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dominick-cruz-only-your-true-believers-stick-with-you\/\",\"name\":\"Dominick Cruz: \\\"Only your true believers stick with you\\\" | BJPenn.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-01-09T20:42:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-01-09T20:43:17+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dominick-cruz-only-your-true-believers-stick-with-you\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dominick-cruz-only-your-true-believers-stick-with-you\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dominick-cruz-only-your-true-believers-stick-with-you\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"UFC NEWS\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Dominick Cruz: &#8220;Only your true believers stick with you&#8221;\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\",\"name\":\"| BJPenn.com\",\"description\":\"MMA &amp; UFC News, Results &amp; Fight Videos\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization\",\"name\":\"| BJPenn.com\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bj_penn_logo_amp.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bj_penn_logo_amp.png\",\"width\":600,\"height\":148,\"caption\":\"| BJPenn.com\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/bjpenn\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bjpenn\",\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/bjpenndotcom\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/0fficialbjpenn\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bjpenndotcom\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/person\/7c8b8d1602cb47040b7a5cd250d5b90a\",\"name\":\"bjpenndotcom\",\"description\":\"UFC NEWS - MMA NEWS\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/author\/bjpenndotcom\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Dominick Cruz: \"Only your true believers stick with you\" | BJPenn.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dominick-cruz-only-your-true-believers-stick-with-you\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Dominick Cruz: \"Only your true believers stick with you\" | BJPenn.com","og_description":"Only your true believers stick with you through the amount of injuries I have sustained. Thank You @MonsterEnergy pic.twitter.com\/6TcHdh6gKO &mdash; Dominick Cruz (@DominickCruz) January 8, 2016 There was a point in Dominick Cruz&#8217;s career that it started to look unlikely that he would be returning to competition after he re-injured his knee back 2012. \u00a0 [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dominick-cruz-only-your-true-believers-stick-with-you\/","og_site_name":"| BJPenn.com","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn","article_published_time":"2016-01-09T20:42:10+00:00","article_modified_time":"2016-01-09T20:43:17+00:00","og_image":[{"width":730,"height":380,"url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Dillashaw-Cruz.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"bjpenndotcom","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@bjpenndotcom","twitter_site":"@bjpenndotcom","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"bjpenndotcom","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dominick-cruz-only-your-true-believers-stick-with-you\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dominick-cruz-only-your-true-believers-stick-with-you\/"},"author":{"name":"bjpenndotcom","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/person\/7c8b8d1602cb47040b7a5cd250d5b90a"},"headline":"Dominick Cruz: &#8220;Only your true believers stick with you&#8221;","datePublished":"2016-01-09T20:42:10+00:00","dateModified":"2016-01-09T20:43:17+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dominick-cruz-only-your-true-believers-stick-with-you\/"},"wordCount":148,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization"},"articleSection":["UFC NEWS"],"inLanguage":"en-US","copyrightYear":"2016","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dominick-cruz-only-your-true-believers-stick-with-you\/","url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dominick-cruz-only-your-true-believers-stick-with-you\/","name":"Dominick Cruz: \"Only your true believers stick with you\" | BJPenn.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-01-09T20:42:10+00:00","dateModified":"2016-01-09T20:43:17+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dominick-cruz-only-your-true-believers-stick-with-you\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dominick-cruz-only-your-true-believers-stick-with-you\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/dominick-cruz-only-your-true-believers-stick-with-you\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"UFC NEWS","item":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Dominick Cruz: &#8220;Only your true believers stick with you&#8221;"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#website","url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/","name":"| BJPenn.com","description":"MMA &amp; UFC News, Results &amp; Fight Videos","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#organization","name":"| BJPenn.com","url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bj_penn_logo_amp.png","contentUrl":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/bj_penn_logo_amp.png","width":600,"height":148,"caption":"| BJPenn.com"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/instagram.com\/bjpenn","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bjpenn","https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/bjpenndotcom\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/0fficialbjpenn","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bjpenn","https:\/\/twitter.com\/bjpenndotcom"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/#\/schema\/person\/7c8b8d1602cb47040b7a5cd250d5b90a","name":"bjpenndotcom","description":"UFC NEWS - MMA NEWS","sameAs":["http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn"],"url":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/author\/bjpenndotcom\/"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}