{"id":206188,"date":"2016-10-04T22:45:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T05:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=206188"},"modified":"2016-10-04T22:45:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T05:45:10","slug":"tj-dillashaw-blasts-dominick-cruz-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/tj-dillashaw\/tj-dillashaw-blasts-dominick-cruz-running\/","title":{"rendered":"TJ Dillashaw blasts Dominick Cruz once again for “running”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former UFC bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw has been doing everything in his power to secure a rematch<\/a> with UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz.<\/p>\n

Cruz, who returned to the Octagon earlier this year, fought Dillashaw in the main event of ‘UFC Fight Night: Boston’ back in January, and reclaimed the bantamweight championship that he never actually lost inside the Octagon as he picked up a split decision win over Dillashaw.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"dillashaw<\/a><\/p>\n

Since then, Cruz went on to defend his bantamweight championship by defeating Urijah Faber<\/a> via unanimous decision in a dominant showing at UFC 199. Dillashaw on the other hand picked up a unanimous decision win over Raphael Assuncao on the preliminary card of UFC 200 back in July. With the win, Dillashaw believed that he had secured himself a rematch with Cruz, however all signs point to the UFC opting to book a bantamweight title fight between Cruz and Team Alpha Male prospect Cody Garbrandt instead.<\/a><\/p>\n

In an effort to bait Cruz into a fight, Dillashaw offered the champ a $100,000 bet. However Cruz has yet to respond to the challenge.<\/p>\n

\"Dillashaw<\/a><\/p>\n

During a recent interview with Fight Society<\/a>, Dillashaw once again put the bantamweight champ on blast:<\/p>\n

“He’s running as far and hard as he can and he’s doing a good job at it. He’s enticing these people that are into the drama and the reality TV of fighting rather than the actual sport,”<\/p>\n

“He knows that I have the best chance of getting that belt and he doesn’t want to fight me. I know that’s the case because he came and congratulated me. As soon as the bell rang in the fifth round, he came and congratulated me and told me ‘hey man I just wanted to let you know that I am a martial artist and I do show respect, I was just hyping up the fight, congratulations, I didn’t do too bad for being out that long’. His coaches congratulated my coaches and they thought that I won the fight.” <\/p>\n

“I’m thinking he’s trying to stay on top as long as he can,” Dillashaw said. “He’s already pushing for a second job in commentating, which he does a great job of, I do think he does a great job of commentating. He’s got a great knowledge base of the sport and he does his homework and I think he’s looking to his second career and he’s trying to stay on top until he does that and I think he knows that I’m going to steal it from him.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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