Watch: Dominick Cruz Forces Cody Garbrandt To Start ‘Throwing Things’
The trash talk and build-up for the bantamweight title bout between Dominick Cruz and Cody Garbrandt at this weekend’s (Fri., December 30, 2017) UFC 207 may be the most heated and emotional lead-in to a 135-pound match-up in MMA history.
And if that was ever in question before today, and interview between Cruz and Garbrandt on Canada’s Fight Network proved it, as “The Dominator” appeared to get in “No Love’s” head to the point of the Team Alpha Male standout storming out of the interview to ‘throw stuff’ offscreen according to Cruz:
To get Garbrandt’s goat, Cruz referred to a run-in he had with “No Love’s” girlfriend on social media:
“She shouldn’t be hollering at me on social media. Keep her to yourself. As far as I’m concerned, I did you and her a favor. She obviously wears the pants in the relationship or else she wouldn’t be having to defend you. So keep your fling on a string, keep her mouth shut because this is big boy business we’re dealing with.”
The talk set Garbrandt off to the point of being willing to fight, and he asked a UFC employee to help him remove his microphone so he could after the following exchange:
“I’ll come across there right now,” Garbrandt said. “You’re a room away.”
Cruz replied, “Go ahead, come over here. C’mon, turd. Let’s go. Ooh, I hope he comes. Bring it. Come on, come on. You comin’? You comin’ little boy? Come on. Come on. You already know. You already know I’m right. That’s why you’re mad. You already know what’s gonna happen. Control yourself. You got one day, boy.”
That was when Garbrandt left the stage, where Cruz reported he could hear him ‘yelling’ and ‘throwing stuff’:
“I can hear him yellin’ and screamin’ over there. Yeah, he’s right here. See, hear him throwing stuff?”
It would seem “No Love” is even more emotional than usual thanks in no small part to Cruz’s always-intelligent trash talk.
We’ll see if that helps or holds him back in the co-main event of Friday’s anticipated card from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
