When it comes to the UFC 199's co-main event, the lead-up to fight night has been a rather curious one.
The rivalry between Urijah Faber and UFC champion Dominick Cruz stretches back to the early days of the WEC, and the animosity between the two is still evident anytime the bantamweights interact with one another. But of late, a third party has also ridden sidecar in the conversation -- former UFC bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw, the man who Cruz defeated for the title and a former protégé of Faber's who left Team Alpha Male last year.
Cruz and Dillashaw share their own testy history, but this time around something strange has happened ahead of UFC 199.