BOSTON – Heading into Sunday night, if you were taking Dominick Cruz’s general proclamation that he might be a better fighter now than he was four years ago with a grain of salt, then headed out of it you were treated to 135 pounds of pure saltiness. Cruz showed up in his most elusive capacity to reclaim his bantamweight title in Boston. T.J. Dillashaw, who knows how to put the tamps on people, hit him only one out of every five times he attempted to.
As Brian Stann said, Cruz was a ghost in there.