This has been a little over four years since the two most talented 135 pound fighters have faced each other in the octagon. Metal Mulisha MMA UFC Bantamweight World Champion, Dominick Cruz is more than ready to battle is out and take on Faber in this highly anticipated fight. Cruz hasn’t lost a fight since. He has reeled off eight straight victories, twice defending his bantamweight title, once in the WEC and once in the UFC. The two fighters have built something of a rivalry in recent months. But Cruz said the grudge goes back to that first fight – and more specifically, over a official MMA event poster.

“In the beginning it had nothing to do with him at all. In the very beginning, it had to do with the fact that I wasn’t even on the event poster and I was fighting him for a world title. That really got under my skin. So, my way of getting on the poster was to sign where I signed (over Faber’s picture), and it ended up pissing him off. Since then, he’s been the one calling me out. He’s done a million YouTube videos, went on like a media frenzy, and just done a bunch of YouTube videos running his mouth. After that, that’s when everything started up. That’s when I started talking because I’m not just going to let him keep running his mouth about me for no reason“.

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