Dominick Cruz isn’t losing sleep over what the UFC rankings mean for him and his competition.
“The Dominator” has been an anomaly in the UFC’s contender considerations for some time, having established himself as arguably the greatest fighter ever to compete at 135 pounds over the span of his career and earning multiple title opportunities despite competing just five times since 2011. It doesn’t hurt that Cruz capitalized on one of those opportunities, winning back the UFC bantamweight title from T.J. Dillashaw at a UFC Fight Night event in Boston five years ago.
That title currently resides in the hands of Petr Yan, who defends it for the first time this Saturday at UFC 259 against Aljamain Sterling.