{"id":204865,"date":"2016-09-21T07:28:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T14:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=204865"},"modified":"2016-09-21T07:28:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T14:28:52","slug":"cody-garbrandt-says-hell-belt-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/cody-garbrandt\/cody-garbrandt-says-hell-belt-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Cody Garbrandt Says He&#8217;ll Have the Belt by 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks, there&#8217;s been plenty of discussion as to who should get the next crack at Dominick Cruz&#8217;s UFC bantamweight title.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tj-dillashaw\/tj-dillashaw-blasts-py-dominick-cruz\/\">TJ Dillashaw<\/a>, who surrendered the title to Cruz earlier this year, certainly has a strong case for the title shot. <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/jimmie-rivera\/ouch-jimmie-rivera-sustains-crack-behind-retina-after-urijah-faber-eye-poke\/\">Jimmie Rivera<\/a>, who recently scored a career-best win over long time contender Urijah Faber, is also in the running. <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bryan-caraway\/bryan-caraway-miesha-tate-ufc-championship-power-couple\/\">Bryan Caraway<\/a>, who recently ended the unbeaten streak of Aljamain sterling, is in the conversation. The same can be said of the winner of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/videos\/video-john-lineker-knocks-out-michael-mcdonald\/\">John Lineker<\/a> and John Dodson&#8217;s looming bantamweight scrap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Cody-Garbrandt.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-124559\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Cody-Garbrandt.png\" alt=\"Cody Garbrandt\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Cody-Garbrandt.png 550w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Cody-Garbrandt-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Cody-Garbrandt-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yet there is perhaps no contender with a better chance of securing the next bantamweight title shot than wickedly powerful 25-year-old Cody Garbrandt.<\/p>\n<p>Garbrandt, who trains out of Team Alpha Male in Sacramento, California, has made his case with a rousing blend of savage stoppages and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/cody-garbrandt\/cody-garbrandt-blasts-dominick-cruz\/\">Cruz trash talk<\/a>. In 2016,\u00a0he&#8217;s scored first-round knockouts over Augusto Mendes, Thomas Almeida, and Takeya Mizugaki, and all the while, he&#8217;s taken every opportunity to make his disdain for the reigning champ known. Because <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dominick-cruz\/dominick-cruz-verbally-destroys-cody-garbrandt\/\">Cruz hasn&#8217;t shied away from firing back<\/a>, we&#8217;ve suddenly got the recipe for an exciting, bantamweight grudge match on our hands \u2013 and the UFC loves a good grudge match, because <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc-202\/nate-diaz-vs-conor-mcgregor-2-appears-broken-ufcs-previous-ppv-record\/\">grudges sell fights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Garbrandt-Mizugaki.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-201732\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Garbrandt-Mizugaki.png\" alt=\"Cody Garbrandt\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Garbrandt-Mizugaki.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Garbrandt-Mizugaki-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Garbrandt-Mizugaki-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Garbrandt-Mizugaki-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a result, there have recently been whispers that a Cruz vs. Garbrandt bout is in the works \u2013 possibly for UFC 207 on December 30. The first of these whispers came from reliable MMA news-breaker @TalkMMA on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/TalkMMA\/status\/776849540272054272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n<p>Late yesterday evening, we received even more reason to believe a Cruz vs. Garbrandt bout is in the works, as Garbrandt suggested he&#8217;d have the belt before 2017 in a response to a fan on Twitter. This, of course, means he&#8217;d have to fight for the belt in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/cody_nolove\/status\/778420707420024834<\/p>\n<p>While the news is not likely to go over well with Dillashaw \u2013 who has been <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tj-dillashaw\/tj-dillashaw-cody-garbrandt-not-deserve-title-shot-yet\/\">open in his belief that Garbrandt hasn&#8217;t yet earned the shot<\/a> \u2013 it seems as though a Cruz vs. Garbrandt title shot is very much in the works.<\/p>\n<p>The big question, of course, is this: can the brick-fisted Garbrandt succeed where talents like Joseph Benavidez, Demetrious &#8220;Mighty Mouse&#8221; Johnson, Urijah Faber, and TJ Dillashaw have failed by unseating the dominant bantamweight champ? It appears we&#8217;ll have our answer soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Cruz-Faber.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"730\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-195958\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Cruz-Faber.png\" alt=\"Cruz Faber\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Cruz-Faber.png 730w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Cruz-Faber-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Cruz-Faber-585x305.png 585w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Cruz-Faber-390x203.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you give Cody Garbrandt a chance against Dominick Cruz, or will the young fighter be stifled by the champ&#8217;s baffling elusiveness? Sound off, PENN nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks, there&#8217;s been plenty of discussion as to who should get the next crack at Dominick Cruz&#8217;s UFC bantamweight title. TJ Dillashaw, who surrendered the title to Cruz earlier this year, certainly has a strong case for the title shot. 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