DFW: Cruz beating CCC up there with Serra over GSP

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Dominick Cruz hasn't fought since losing his bantamweight championship to Cody Garbrandt in 2016, but on Saturday night in the co-main event of UFC 249, Cruz challenges new division champion Henry Cejudo.

UFC president Dana White spoke recently with BT Sport and said a Cruz win would be among the greatest upsets in league history. The consensus choice for the honor is Matt Serra over GSP at UFC 69 in 2007.

“100 percent. I think it’s the biggest upset ever," said White, as transcribed by Adam Martin for BJPenn.com. "Say what you want about Henry Cejudo, you don’t like his personality, the guy is unbelievable and he’s looked incredible in his last several outings. He is the man right now ... two different weight >

“Dominick Cruz is the unluckiest fighter of all time. I mean the injuries that this guy’s had. If he can pull this off, it’s one of the biggest upsets. I’d put it right up there with Matt Serra vs. Georges St-Pierre.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDqq8wK6K7s&feature=youtu.be&t=383

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How does he equate the best (but most boring) 135er ever winning after a long lay off to the craziest upset of a former UFC 155 guy having to go through TUF to just to get a shot at beating the best 170er ever. 

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DFW is an egg..

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Cruz is arguably the GOAT at bantamweight. Dana is way off here.

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Prime dom beats everyone easily that has ever competed at bantamweight. 

Henry gunna have a hard night.

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The Destroyer88 -

Cruz is arguably the GOAT at bantamweight. Dana is way off here.

He’s old and he’s had probably had more surgeries than fights at this point lol 

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Cruz has been a champion for most of his career.  One of the greatest ever coming back and still being great isn’t the largest upset ever.  Serra shocked the world, but Cruz winning wouldn’t shock me.  

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Not even close as a comparison.

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The odds tell the real story.

It's basically 2 to 1 for Dom

Matt serra was like somewhere in between 8 and 13 to 1. 

That means matt serra is 4 to 6.5 times as much of an underdog as cruz is.

It's not even close. 

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So... I'm a DFW fan. Bums me out when everyone rips on him (although I get it). But that's one of the dumbest things he's ever said 

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egg being egg

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so he’s selling us a bullshit fight? Cruz is “so bad”, why are you making us pay for pure crap? Egg is saying the ufc puts on joke fights to get your money!

Cant have it both ways!

Note: I dont think Cruz is crap

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Not even close, he wasnt thinking saying that 

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What a ridiculous comparison 

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The fights have nothing in common.

If Cruz wins, the only comparison in MMA history is Cruz’s win over TJ. One of the great combeback from injury stories in sports history.

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I don’t get why he says shit like that. Anyone who has any knowledge of mma history knows it’s gonna be a great fight. Henry will be the bull and Dom will be the matador.  We get it.  No need to hype it up with boolsheet. 

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Yea, not an upset.

If Cruz comes back and destroys him: Dom is back.

If Cruz barely wins: Damn, imagine if it was Prime Dom…

If Henry barely wins: Maybe Dom should hang it up. Too old.

If Henry destroys Dom: Getting too old. Dom should quit.

It’s almost a current no win for Henry, but beating a legend always looks good in the history books after the fact.

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A better comparison would be GSP vs Bisping...Both GSP and Cruz coming of long layoffs 

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Then why did they make this fight? So this fight will look like the one sided beatdown the 2nd gsp serra fight was.