Cody Garbrandt: UFC Bantamweight Champ Dominick Cruz is ‘Riding My Coattails’

Cody Garbrandt is already one of the most-talked about talents in the UFC’s bantamweight division, and for good reason. The Team Alpha Male product’s first-round knockout of highly-touted Brazilian Thomas Almeida at UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas this past May officially signaled his arrival as a contender at 135 pounds. Ever since then, he and reigning champion Dominick Cruz have been firing jabs at one another on social media. As it stands right now, “No Love” believes he already has more star power than the sharp-tongued Cruz. “He says I’m riding Urijah’ Faber’s coattails, but really Dominick’s riding my coattails because I’m the one that’s in the media getting talked about the most,” Garbrandt recently told members of the media. “So he wants to jump in there and try and steal my thunder. He’s saying, ‘I want to fight Cody. He’s got tattoos and a hard part and he thinks he’s tough.’” While Cruz has Garbrandt’s attention now, the 25-year-old Ohioan says he never watched his would-be rival fight until UFC 199, when …

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