
Dominick Cruz
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Two-time bantamweight champion and footwork savant widely seen as one of the smartest fighters ever.
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Dominick Cruz is a two-time UFC bantamweight champion and one of the most influential technical fighters the sport has produced. His unorthodox, constantly shifting footwork and feinting made him nearly impossible to hit cleanly, and he used it to dominate the division across the WEC and UFC, including two wins over archrival Urijah Faber.
A brutal string of injuries robbed him of years in his prime, yet he kept coming back, most memorably reclaiming the title against Takeya Mizugaki after a long layoff. Now retired, Cruz is regarded as one of the sport's sharpest minds and has become a widely respected broadcast analyst, bringing the same fight IQ to the desk that made him a champion.
Why fans love Cruz
His footwork and fight IQ are studied as a blueprint, and his resilience through brutal injuries made his comebacks heroic.






























