LOS ANGELES -- Dominick Cruz was taken aback when he first heard that the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) was enacting new weight-cutting rules.
The main catalyst was that Cruz heard that CSAC didn't want fighters to dehydrate at all to make weight.
"I kind of had a little heart-attack moment," the UFC bantamweight champion said Wednesday at a media day in Downtown LA. "Like, wait a second, you need me to be hydrated in California to fight? You guys are playing around, because you know I'm not hydrated up on that scale. Ever. And you know Chris Weidman and Luke Rockhold are not hydrated up on that scale in a million years.