{"id":94478,"date":"2014-04-20T13:32:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T20:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=94478"},"modified":"2022-02-06T11:46:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T19:46:21","slug":"white-cruz-can-take-immediate-title-shot-upon-return-if-he-wants-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/white-cruz-can-take-immediate-title-shot-upon-return-if-he-wants-it\/","title":{"rendered":"White: Cruz Can Take Immediate Title Shot Upon Return If &#8216;He Wants It&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/dana-white-thinks-dominick-cruz-has-kind-of-been-stalling-his-fight-with-barao\/cruzpng\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74775\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74775\" title=\"cruzPNG\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cruzPNG.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cruzPNG.png 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cruzPNG-300x207.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cruzPNG-361x250.png 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI, literally, have heard nothing from Dominick Cruz. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on with him. And I don\u2019t think after this much of a layoff it would be right to throw him in there for [a title shot], unless he wants it. He was the champ before all this stuff happened to him, and if he wanted to come right back and fight (Barao), then yeah, I\u2019d do it. But Barao is one of those guys \u2013 man, I just think Barao is so nasty. I\u2019d fight somebody else. If it was me, personally.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/video-dana-whites-ufc-on-fox-11-post-fight-media-scrum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UFC on FOX 11 post-fight media event<\/a>, UFC President Dana White discussed the future of his former bantamweight champ, Dominick Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz has been sidelined for two-years with multiple injuries. The former champion was forced to relinquish his belt when he pulled out of his scheduled UFC 169 bout against Renan Barao. 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He was the champ before all this stuff happened to him, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":74775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[291,11,649,755,15,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>White: Cruz Can Take Immediate Title Shot Upon Return If &#039;He Wants It&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/white-cruz-can-take-immediate-title-shot-upon-return-if-he-wants-it\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"White: Cruz Can Take Immediate Title Shot Upon Return If &#039;He Wants It&#039; | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cI, literally, have heard nothing from Dominick Cruz. 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