{"id":197195,"date":"2016-06-21T22:32:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T05:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=197195"},"modified":"2016-06-21T22:32:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T05:32:20","slug":"dominick-cruz-demetrious-johnson-is-not-unbeatable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dominick-cruz\/dominick-cruz-demetrious-johnson-is-not-unbeatable\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominick Cruz: &#8220;Demetrious Johnson is not unbeatable&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC bantamweight champion <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/watch-compilation-of-dominick-cruzs-trash-talk\/\">Dominick Cruz has never been one to shy away from giving his thoughts<\/a> on his fellow fighters.  In addition to being able to dish out an incredible volume of trash talk, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-dominick-cruz-urijah-faber-octagon-interivews\/\">Cruz backs up his talk inside the Octagon,<\/a> earning him the reputation as one of the most talented fighters in the UFC.  <\/p>\n<p>Cruz, who holds a win over arguable pound for pound kingpin Demetrious Johnson, was asked by <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2016\/06\/dominick-cruz-sees-reis-self-confidence-as-key-for-ufc-201-title-shot-we-know-that-johnson-is-beatable\" target=\"_blank\">MMAJunkie<\/a> for his thoughts on Johnson&#8217;s upcoming UFC 201 fight with Wilson Reis:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cDemetrious Johnson is not unbeatable \u2013 if anyone knows that, it\u2019s me.  He\u2019s a very beatable individual. I beat him for five rounds straight. He didn\u2019t win one round of that fight. I know how to beat him. I understand what you\u2019ve got to do. And Wilson does, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love that fight because there\u2019s a lot of unknowns about Wilson,\u201d Cruz said. \u201dI brought him to help me get ready for my first fight with Joseph Benavidez because he\u2019s a short-statured fighter, with good explosive movement. And he has a good grappling game in general. He\u2019s got good wrestling, good jiu-jitsu. And if you look at his striking, he keeps getting better training with us. We understand how to build a gameplan around his strengths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWilson believes in himself. The first step is believing that Demetrious is beatable. And we all know that he is. A lot of these other guys go in there almost believing that they can\u2019t. Wilson won\u2019t go in there with that mindset. He\u2019s going in there very confident. And he should, because he\u2019s very tough to deal with.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Video | Donald Cerrone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[ooyala code=&#8221;pndmF3MzE6sJ64YllwcZqQjNBohOgt3P&#8221; player_id=&#8221;bd214e34cfad476984102de4bf5e8da2&#8243; auto=&#8221;true&#8221; width=&#8221;1280&#8243; height=&#8221;722&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz has never been one to shy away from giving his thoughts on his fellow fighters. In addition to being able to dish out an incredible volume of trash talk, Cruz backs up his talk inside the Octagon, earning him the reputation as one of the most talented fighters in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":195840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10131],"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;Demetrious Johnson is not unbeatable&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\/mma-news\/dominick-cruz\/dominick-cruz-demetrious-johnson-is-not-unbeatable\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dominick Cruz: &quot;Demetrious Johnson is not unbeatable&quot; | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz has never been one to shy away from giving his thoughts on his fellow fighters. 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