{"id":204375,"date":"2016-09-16T12:05:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T19:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=204375"},"modified":"2016-09-16T12:05:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T19:05:50","slug":"details-emerge-targeted-dominick-cruz-vs-cody-garbrandt-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dominick-cruz\/details-emerge-targeted-dominick-cruz-vs-cody-garbrandt-bout\/","title":{"rendered":"Details emerge on targeted Dominick Cruz vs. Cody Garbrandt bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Dominick Cruz convincingly <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-dominick-cruz-urijah-faber-octagon-interivews\/\">defeated Urijah Faber in the co-main event of UFC 199<\/a> back in June, he has been on a collision course with Faber&#8217;s protege, Cody Garbrandt.<\/p>\n<p>Garbrandt has been on a tear of the UFC&#8217;s bantamweight division, going 5-0 in the UFC, finishing all but one of his opponents via KO\/TKO.  Following his <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-cody-garbrandt-knocks-out-thomas-almeida-highlights\/\">KO win over Thomas Almeida back in May<\/a>, Garbrandt began calling for a title fight with Cruz.  <\/p>\n<p>The pair traded numerous verbal blows through interviews, which continued as Garbrandt was booked to fight Takeya Mizugaki at UFC 202 last month.  During the UFC 202 fight week, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/cody-garbrandt\/cody-garbrandt-opens-backstage-incident-dominick-cruz\/\">Garbrandt and Cruz were involved in a rather heated backstage confrontation<\/a> that resulted in security separating the two men.<\/p>\n<p>When Garbrandt entered the Octagon on August 20th to fight Mizugaki, Cruz was in attendance, watching closely from the Fox Sports 1 booth.  &#8216;No Love&#8217; went out and finished Mizugaki in under a minute before using his post-fight Octagon interview to call for a fight with Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>The pair verbally agreed to a bout in the days following the event, however there has been no word on the UFC looking to book the fight. Until now.<\/p>\n<p>TalkMMA is reporting that the UFC is looking to book Cruz vs. Garbrandt at UFC 207 on December 30th, the UFC&#8217;s New Years Eve card, which takes place on Friday, rather than on Saturday, which is indeed New Years Eve.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dominick Cruz vs Cody Garbrandt in discussion for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC207?src=hash\">#UFC207<\/a> Dec 30 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFCNYE?src=hash\">#UFCNYE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Deplorable #Dizz \u00a9 (@TalkMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TalkMMA\/status\/776849540272054272\">September 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So far <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFC207?src=hash\">#UFC207<\/a> is rumored to have DC vs Rumble, Cruz vs Garbrandt, Werdum vs Cain 2<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Deplorable #Dizz \u00a9 (@TalkMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TalkMMA\/status\/776856239129128961\">September 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If the UFC chooses to book this fight, who do you see leaving Las Vegas with the UFC bantamweight championship? 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