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Former UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz hasn’t tapped out of his profession simply but … as the longer term Corridor of Famer tells TMZ Sports activities he needs to placed on the gloves one final time and step again into the UFC Octagon.
We caught up with 39-year-old Cruz, who’s presently in Mexico Metropolis on the UFC Efficiency Institute, and he mentioned he’s within the strategy of “building myself up” for a bout.
“I’ll tell you, I think I got a last dance,” he mentioned. “I want one last dance in me. Just go out there and have fun. And when I say fun, I mean fight to the bitter death and see what I have in me.”
It will mark the primary time he has been within the Octagon since 2022 … which he misplaced by way of fourth-round KO to Marlon Vera.
In an excellent world, the previous champ mentioned he would have taken a struggle this yr — however now says early 2025 is “what’s going to work and line up.”
“I wanted to get after it this year,” he mentioned. “But it’s not looking like a matchup is getting negotiated exactly the way it is. There’s some guys out there who looked really good; that whole division is stacked.”
Cruz is 24-4 in his profession … with wins over large names like Urijah Faber, T.J. Dillashaw, Demetrious Johnson and extra — and he is wanting so as to add yet another win earlier than driving off into the sundown.
