{"id":215261,"date":"2017-01-01T16:33:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T00:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=215261"},"modified":"2017-01-01T16:34:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T00:34:21","slug":"bantamweight-champ-cody-garbrandt-discusses-ufc-207-win-dominick-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/cody-garbrandt\/bantamweight-champ-cody-garbrandt-discusses-ufc-207-win-dominick-cruz\/","title":{"rendered":"Bantamweight champ Cody Garbrandt discusses his UFC 207 win over Dominick Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Friday, in the co-main event of UFC 207<\/a>, undefeated 25-year-old\u00a0Cody Garbrandt<\/a> picked up one of the biggest upsets of 2016 by capturing a unanimous decision win from dominant bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz<\/a>. In the moments after this win, the new champ sat down for a post-fight press conference with the media.<\/p>\n

According to Garbrandt, the most surprising thing about the fight was that Cruz wasn’t nearly as fast or elusive<\/a> as he expected him to be.<\/p>\n

“I was really just curious to see his speed, his angles,” Garbrandt said. “Everyone believed the hype of him being … he’s The Matrix, he’s a ghost in there. He’s great. I’m not taking nothing away from him, but I was almost in shock he was as slow as he was in his movements and his angles weren’t there.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Garbrandt also commented on the cut he opened on Cruz’s face in the early portion of the fight, identifying this as a key moment to his victory.<\/p>\n

“That’s when it changed right there,” he said. “He didn’t like that blood running down his face. That’s when I said, \u2018Dominick, are you having fun yet?’ And he didn’t answer me. In the first and second round, he would answer me back each time. That’s right then, I knew that he wasn’t having fun in the fight.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Finally, Garbrandt touched on his plentiful, mid-fight trash talk and taunting.<\/p>\n

“I was just living in the moment,” he explained. “I was just having fun out there and enjoying it. It was a great fight. I had so much fun in there. He’s a great sh*t talker. He knows a lot of good words. He speaks well. Sh*t, I couldn’t read until I was in the third grade. I barely graduated high school. I knew what I was getting into with him. I knew I couldn’t let his words and his trash talk get me emotional in there.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What did you think of Cody Garbrandt’s win over Dominick Cruz? Sound off, PENN Nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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