Dominick Cruz will finally get his chance to reclaim the title he was stripped of last year, when he faces current Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw in the main event of UFC Fight Night 81 on Jan. 17, 2016 in Boston, Massachusetts.
It will be 16 months since Cruz last stepped foot inside the Octagon, as his initial comeback attempt came at UFC 178 with a speedy and brutal beatdown of Takeya Mizugaki in September of 2014 (watch it).
For Cruz, the more things change, the more they stay the same, as he recently told FOX Sports that he isn't worried about coming back to a new and improved 135-pound division.