{"id":185720,"date":"2016-02-10T15:26:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T23:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=185720"},"modified":"2017-01-30T21:06:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T05:06:35","slug":"dominick-cruz-gift-urijah-faber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dominick-cruz-gift-urijah-faber\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominick Cruz has a gift for Urijah Faber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dominick Cruz reclaimed the UFC bantamweight championship last month after <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/video-highlights-tj-dillashaw-vs-dominick-cruz-ufc-fight-night\/\">defeating TJ Dillashaw<\/a> via split decision at <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dominick-cruz\/watch-tj-dillashaw-vs-dominick-cruz-behind-the-scenes-part-2\/\">&#8216;UFC Fight Night: Boston&#8217;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Immediately after winning the title, Cruz found himself being called out by his <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/watch-faber-calls-out-newly-crowned-champion-dominick-cruz\/\">nemesis Urijah Faber<\/a>.  While TJ Dillashaw <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/dillashaw-why-does-faber-deserve-a-title-shot\/\">wanted an immediate rematch<\/a> given how close the fight was, Cruz seems to prefer a trilogy bout with Faber instead.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2016\/02\/champ-dominick-cruz-ready-to-gift-urijah-faber-title-shot-im-all-hes-got-left\" target=\"_blank\">MMAJunkie<\/a>, Cruz explained why he prefers a matchup with Faber, and why he&#8217;s actually offering &#8216;The California Kid&#8217; a gift.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI like that Faber matchup because we were supposed to fight but it got put off because of my knee injury, so I feel like that could happen.  It\u2019s been 10 years of building with this guy, and I just kind of want to shut him down and keep him out of the division after this. He really isn\u2019t the most relevant guy in the world, but he still does a pretty good fight. He brings some things to the table. He\u2019s still got a championship mindset.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is just another gift for Faber. He\u2019s been gifted his whole career with title shots, but oh well. Screw it. I\u2019m all he\u2019s got left, so I might as well give him one more.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominick Cruz reclaimed the UFC bantamweight championship last month after defeating TJ Dillashaw via split decision at &#8216;UFC Fight Night: Boston&#8217;. Immediately after winning the title, Cruz found himself being called out by his nemesis Urijah Faber. While TJ Dillashaw wanted an immediate rematch given how close the fight was, Cruz seems to prefer a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":147335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10131,10086,10116],"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 has a gift for Urijah Faber | 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\/mma-news\/dominick-cruz-gift-urijah-faber\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dominick Cruz has a gift for Urijah Faber | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dominick Cruz reclaimed the UFC bantamweight championship last month after defeating TJ Dillashaw via split decision at &#8216;UFC Fight Night: Boston&#8217;. 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