Dominick Cruz is still bitter over his TKO loss to Henry Cejudo at UFC 249, maintaining that referee Keith Peterson stopped the fight too early in the second round.
Cruz had previously accused Peterson of smelling of ‘alcohol and cigarettes’ and, although he didn’t bring that up again, ‘The Dominator’ is adamant that Peterson is to blame for the loss.
“I believe Keith Peterson gave him (Henry Cejudo) a nice gift with that (stoppage),” Cruz told ESPN’s Ariel Helwani in a recent interview (h/t Low Kick MMA). “I was, you know — yeah I got hurt and I shouldn’t have put myself in that position but I was — if you talk to the refs, and you talk to anybody — you have a couple things you need to do in order to keep the fight going.