Cruz: Garbrandt acting ‘spineless, gutless and sad’

UFC men’s bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz is a master at mixed martial arts technique. And he is a master at getting in his opponent’s head. His latest attack on UFC 207 foe Cody Garbrandt comes at an interesting angle – he makes light of No Love’s interviews.

This is coming off a verbal lambasting at UFC on FOX 22 during which Garbrandt was reduced to saying, “I know you are but what am I.” If there is any consolation, Cruz says Team Alpha Male founder Uirjah Faber is no different.

“I kind of blackout when I talk sometimes, but afterwards I realized I had a tactical answer for every idiotic thing he had to say,” said Cruz to Duane Finley for FloCombat. “It was funny because you could almost read into everything he was going to say because he’s not a big thinker. He’s the type of guy who has to force everything and there’s no real thought put into anything.

“Everything he says is, ‘I’m stronger, I’m faster, I’m better looking and I’m this and that,’ and that’s gotta work, but it’s like, ‘What’s plan B for you guy?’ I can match him on all those things and more, and since he doesn’t have a plan B I can make him look silly. He really just does that all on his own though.”

“It’s like when you are a little kid and you literally repeat what the other person just said. At a certain point I thought he was making us both look dumb because he was so bad at speaking. I would say something and he would just start yelling loud noises at me because he didn’t want me to get my thought out.”

“What you get is me trying to talk and these other people screaming absurd things over top of me and it kills the interview. It’s a spineless, gutless and sad approach that’s very weak.”

“I’d much rather have the support and energy of the fans than the negativity and the hate. You can feed off and use both in their own ways, but if I had to pick one I would definitely choose positive energy and I’ve been feeling a lot of it lately from the fans. The key is not to need it though. The key is to need all the positive energy you can get from yourself so that way anything you get from other people becomes an extra.”

“On New Year’s Eve I’m going to beat the hell out of this dude and I can’t wait for it.”

Dominick Cruz fights Cody Garbrandt in the co-main event of UFC 207 on on December 30, 2016, at T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada, live on pay per view.