{"id":267554,"date":"2025-11-07T10:31:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T10:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/267554\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T10:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T10:31:18","slug":"dominick-cruz-reunites-with-urijah-faber-on-new-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/267554\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominick Cruz Reunites With Urijah Faber On New Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Bantamweight king Dominick Cruz, who retired this year<\/a>, has launched a brand new podcast, and his very first guest couldn\u2019t have been a more fitting choice \u2014 longtime rival and former WEC Featherweight champion, Urijah Faber.<\/p>\n

Cruz and Faber\u2019s rivalry is one of the most iconic and bad-blooded feuds<\/a> in lighter weight MMA history. The two first met back in 2007 under the WEC banner, when Faber was the Featherweight champion and Cruz was just 9-0. Faber handed Cruz his first professional loss that night, submitting him with a guillotine choke in the first round<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The animosity between the two only grew from there. When Cruz dropped down to Bantamweight and became UFC champion in 2010 (because of the WEC merger), Faber followed him to the division \u2014 and the two finally met again in a heated rematch at UFC 132 in 2011<\/a>. This time, Cruz got his revenge, defeating Faber via unanimous decision<\/a> in what was the first Bantamweight title fight in UFC history.<\/p>\n

Their trilogy bout came five years later at UFC 199<\/a> in 2016, with Cruz once again getting the better of \u201cThe California Kid,\u201d winning a clear decision (watch highlights<\/a>) to close the book on their decade-long rivalry<\/a>. The two would later bury the hatchet publicly, but the competitive fire between them never really went away.<\/p>\n

Now, nearly two decades after their first clash, Cruz and Faber are sitting down \u2014 not to fight, but to talk. And for longtime fans of the sport, seeing those two share microphones instead of punches is as surreal as it gets.<\/p>\n

Watch the entire podcast above!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Bantamweight king Dominick Cruz, who retired this year, has launched a brand new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702,3194],"class_list":["post-267554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}