{"id":201380,"date":"2016-08-17T10:28:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T17:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=201380"},"modified":"2016-08-17T10:28:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T17:28:04","slug":"cody-garbrandt-fires-back-dominick-cruz-threatens-retire-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/cody-garbrandt\/cody-garbrandt-fires-back-dominick-cruz-threatens-retire-champ\/","title":{"rendered":"Cody Garbrandt fires back at Dominick Cruz, threatens to retire champ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Cody Garbrandt is currently making his final preparations for his <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc-results\/ufc-202-results\/ufc-202-official-lineup-set\/\">UFC 202 fight with Takeya Mizugaki<\/a> this Saturday, the Team Alpha Male prospect has <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/cody-garbrandt\/video-cody-garbrandt-im-going-break-dominick-cruz-jaw1\/\">continued to relentlessly call out UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After Cruz <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-dominick-cruz-verbally-destroys-cody-garbrandt\/\">compared Garbrandt to former WWE champion CM Punk<\/a>, who will be making his MMA debut at UFC 203, Garbrandt took a break from fight-prep to fire back at the bantamweight champion via Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CMPunk\">@CMPunk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DominickCruz\">@DominickCruz<\/a> thanks for the good laugh I&#39;m going to retire your Eddie Munster looking ass! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DeathByKicks?src=hash\">#DeathByKicks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Euwo7hLxmP\">https:\/\/t.co\/Euwo7hLxmP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cody Garbrandt (@Cody_Nolove) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cody_Nolove\/status\/765924995486756864\">August 17, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Cody Garbrandt is currently making his final preparations for his UFC 202 fight with Takeya Mizugaki this Saturday, the Team Alpha Male prospect has continued to relentlessly call out UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz. 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