{"id":186271,"date":"2016-02-16T09:57:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T17:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=186271"},"modified":"2016-02-16T09:57:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T17:57:34","slug":"dominick-cruz-viciously-stirs-pot-drama-team-alpha-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dominick-cruz\/dominick-cruz-viciously-stirs-pot-drama-team-alpha-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominick Cruz viciously stirs the pot of drama at ‘Team Alpha Fail’"},"content":{"rendered":"

UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz has had a long time rivalry with Urijah Faber and he has been getting an absolute kick out of all the drama surrounding Faber’s camp<\/a> at Team Alpha Male. A fall out between Faber and striking coach Duane Ludwig caused a rift between fighters with the former bantamweight champion Dillashaw leaving Team Alpha Male to join Ludwig at the Elevation Fight Team.<\/p>\n

Cruz spoke with MMA Junkie<\/a> on how he sees things looking from the outside at Team Alpha Male.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s hilarious because you just see the true colors of everybody,\u201d Cruz told MMAjunkie. \u201cAll you heard was how those guys wouldn\u2019t fight each other, if you recall. And how close they were and how much of a brotherhood they had. They would never fight their friends, but now all it takes is one little thing to stray away from that in a heartbeat. There\u2019s no loyalty in any of those gentlemen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cruz says that all the guys there will ultimately choose to better their own lives if the opportunity presents itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ll all write each other off in a heartbeat to get up on the other one,\u201d Cruz said. \u201cThat\u2019s just the truth because they proved it. If there\u2019s a better situation these guys can move into for themselves, they\u2019re going to take it. It has nothing to with friendship, it has nothing to do with loyalty, it has nothing to do with brotherhood \u2013 it has to do with what they need for themselves. I have no problem with that mindset if you just admit it, but the problem is these guys are trying to play this friendship game and they don\u2019t want to fight each other because they\u2019re \u2018best buds.\u2019 It\u2019s just really stupid to me.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo hear all that and that\u2019s why they\u2019ve never faced in each other in the octagon, and now they split up and are willing to face each other, it\u2019s just stupid. It\u2019s really, really dumb. It\u2019s like a fraternity house and one fraternity changes to the other one and now they\u2019re not cool anymore and there can only be one group that\u2019s cool. It\u2019s just silly, those guys are just a bunch of drama and they\u2019re all in it for themselves. If they would just admit that then I probably wouldn\u2019t have to say it, but I have to say it because they won\u2019t say it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cruz went on to say that the new group of younger guys at Team Alpha Male are showing up Faber, who is the leader of the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cFaber is more of a training partner slash buddy slash older brother to those guys, so it\u2019s kind of a weird chemistry,\u201d Cruz said. \u201cHe\u2019s not really a head coach, and if they\u2019re beating Faber up in the gym you don\u2019t want that to be your coach because that guy is getting ready for a title shot next and you think you\u2019re better than him, so why would you take advice from him?<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s kind of what happened with Benavidez and Palmer<\/a> and T.J., they were beating Faber up in the gym and we\u2019re like, \u2018Why am I going to take advice from this guy who is calling himself my coach or my training partner when I could go to (Duane) Ludwig (in Colorado) and he\u2019ll teach me something?’\u201d<\/p>\n

While nothing has been booked yet, a title fight rubber match between champion Dominick Cruz and Urijah Faber has been rumbling from both sides. Is this the fight fans want to see? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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