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Dominick Cruz wanted Petr Yan over Cory Sandhagen: ‘I want to fight towards the title’

Early this month, Cory Sandhagen claimed to have agreed to fight former UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz. Almost a couple of weeks later, Sandhagen declared the match up off table, stating it was Cruz who backed out.

Cruz remained quiet from his end all this time, until he cleared the air in a recent interview with MMA Fighting.

“Who said that I took it? What I’ve heard is that he’s saying that he took the fight and I didn’t,” he said. “My question is, who did he talk to that said that I got offered the fight and I said no?