Cruz (photo) will form a trilogy with Faber. Photo: Josh Hedges/UFC
In recent months, after a meteoric rise in the octagon, Conor McGregor has experienced its first turmoil in the UFC, with the defeat to Nate diaz, the disagreements with the event management and his departure from UFC 200. In the opinion of the bantamweight champion and official Ultimate commentator on North American TV, Dominick Cruz, these problems are a consequence of precisely the context that led McGregor to stardom.
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“When you think about what the UFC wants, the answer is simple: they want you to be in the media. The problem is that Conor McGregor He is a victim of his own success. He is so good at doing media that they will always ask him to do thousands of interviews and appearances on TV and radio shows. But I'll be honest: if the UFC said to me, 'Dominick, we're going to pay you 100 times what you make today, and you're going to make the same as Conor McGregor'. I would sleep at reporters' houses throughout my training camp and eat everything you guys eat, do all the radio and TV interviews and still be ready to fight,” Cruz said on “The MMA Hour.”
Furthermore, Cruz highlighted the irony of the situation. “It's kind of confusing. He makes a fortune for fulfilling media commitments, and people want to see him. There is an immense demand and, therefore, it ends up working exactly against it”, she analyzed.
Dominick Cruz returns to the octagon next Saturday (04), in Los Angeles (USA). On the date, the bantamweight champion puts his belt on the line in the trilogy against Urijah faber. The duel will be the co-main fight of UFC 199, an event that will be main event the middleweight belt dispute between Luke Rockhold e Michael Bisping.
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