{"id":213436,"date":"2016-12-23T23:55:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T07:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=213436"},"modified":"2016-12-23T23:55:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T07:55:59","slug":"dominick-cruz-taunts-ignorant-cody-garbrandt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dominick-cruz\/dominick-cruz-taunts-ignorant-cody-garbrandt\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominick Cruz taunts “ignorant” Cody Garbrandt"},"content":{"rendered":"

In just under one week, UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz will step into the Octagon against #8 ranked bantamweight Cody Garbrandt<\/a> in a highly anticipated grudge match for the bantamweight title. <\/p>\n

While Garbrandt is entering the fight undefeated, on a 10 fight win streak that has seen him go 5-0 inside the Octagon<\/a>, the champ believes that the challenger’s confidence going into the fight is nothing but ignorance.<\/p>\n

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

He spoke to MMAJunkie<\/a> to discuss the fight, as well as Garbrandt’s recent comments leading up to the fight:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only difference between me and Cody is I\u2019ve dealt with my demons and he\u2019s still facing them. When he\u2019s in there in the octagon with me he\u2019s got another person to face on top of the demons he\u2019s still already facing in his own personal life. I\u2019m making him battle himself, his own intuition of himself, his own feelings of himself, his feelings about his past, because he refuses to deal with that on his own. He runs from it, and the more he runs from it the more I\u2019m going to make him pay. And the more strength he thinks he has in life, I\u2019m going to take those strengths away and make him deal with his own weaknesses. One of the weaknesses of Cody is his emotions. So, when I say stuff like that it attacks his emotions because he can\u2019t control his emotions. He\u2019s an emotional wreck. I just let him know that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s be honest here: The things he\u2019s saying are a cry for attention,\u201d Cruz said. \u201cThere\u2019s no logical explanation for what he says, and there\u2019s no proof behind what he says. What there\u2019s proof behind is he knocks people out in the first round and he hasn\u2019t gone much further. There\u2019s proof behind he\u2019s undefeated. But there\u2019s proof behind Shane Carwin doing the exact same thing and getting smashed in the second round because he couldn\u2019t get out of the first round against a top-notch competitor. That\u2019s not be bashing Shane Carwin; that\u2019s me bashing a style and type of style that has been so dominant for so long, so quickly with so much power that it actually works against you in the end.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen to Cody Garbrandt. He just doesn\u2019t know it yet. Experience is bliss, and I\u2019m going to be able to show him how ignorant he really is.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While the two have been talking trash since long before the fight was ever officially announced, earlier this month things escalated when both men appeared on Fox to talk trash in a side-by-side video interview<\/a> at ‘UFC Fight Night: Sacramento’.<\/p>\n

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

Only time will tell which man will leave Vegas with the bantamweight title on December 30th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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