3-time
WEC and
5-time
UFC Bantamweight Champion Dominick Cruz [
22-2 MMA,
5-1 UFC] will make his long
awaited return to the
UFC octagon on
January 26th, 2019 at
UFC 233 in Anaheim, California. He will be facing
former
Jungle Fight Bantamweight Champion and fellow
UFC fighter John Lineker [
31-8 MMA,
12-3 UFC].
Cruz will return to action after a
2-
year layoff due to injury. His last fight was in
December of
2016 at
UFC 207 against
Cody Garbrandt [
11-2 MMA,
6-2 UFC], where lost the
UFC Bantamweight Championship, his first loss in nearly a
decade.
In
2014,
Cruz returned from a
3-
year layoff due to injury, re-capturing the
UFC Bantamweight Championship in only his second
fight back. Let's hope that
Cruz will return again with vigor, proving once again that
"ring rust" is the exception, not the rule.