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Dominick Cruz has quite the rivalry with TJ Dillashaw and even though the two fought over six years ago, there is no love lost. Both men are currently working to get a UFC title shot at bantamweight.
TJ Dillashaw appears to be next and Dominick Cruz is having none of it. The former UFC bantamweight champion doesn't think Dillashaw deserves it and he's having it handed to him.
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“He was suspended for cheating, so to get a shot after one win, OK, cool. Sounds like a hook-up to me,” he said on his Wednesday appearance on The MMA Hour.
“He got two years off, didn’t really lose any money, and then just gets right back up in [the title picture]. It’s not like he had an easy fight; [Cory] Sandhagen’s no joke. But still, one fight? Pedro Munhoz and all these other people that are in the division that have just been competing, competing, competing, it’s crazy.”
Dominick Cruz continued to question TJ Dillashaw's status as the number one contender at bantamweight. There are many names in the UFC's bantamweight division that could potentially earn themselves a shot.
“But it’s showing me that what is dominant in each division is ticket sales and storyline, and the storyline of T.J. Dillashaw, the fact that he cheated, isn’t really in that. If anything, it just makes people dislike him more, which will make people tune in. So I think that the storyline is more important for the UFC than anything else to sell tickets than who deserves what.
“I’ve said it a million times – nobody really deserves anything in this sport. You get everything you earn. He fought Cory Sandhagen. He earned that. But that’s pretty much my layout. I think that there’s a lot of good fights you can make. To make that one? I guess so,” Cruz continued.
“I guess, but there’s plenty of other fights you can make that you could give that opportunity to besides him. But obviously, the storyline sells, so they’re going with it.”
