“That moment in time never existed,” Dominick Cruz doesn’t recall getting knocked down by Pedro Munhoz at UFC 269
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Dominick Cruz vs Pedro Munhoz
Former UFC bantamweight champion, Dominick Cruz is coming off from an impressive win against another contender Pedro Munhoz at the under-card of UFC 269. Cruz was knocked twice in this fight, but he came back stronger and got the decision victory.
Dominick Cruz has gone through many similar moments in his lengthy career, but this was a little special. Cruz talked about this fight in the recent episode of The MMA Hour, he highlighted the moment when he got knocked out, he said, “You can’t be completely happy when you get dropped, ever. And I didn’t know that happened. When I’m in the fight, you’re just in the fight.”
He added, “To be honest, when I was in the fight and that happened, the only things that I saw was, we got into a scuffle and I missed a punch from my pivot in, and then when I missed the punch, I got back up, and the scramble had my balance off. But I didn’t know I had been hit at all. So I just thought my balance was off from the scuffle.”
“Things just felt dreamy,” Dominick Cruz was hurt bad in the first round
Cruz is known for his evasive and confusing footwork, people find it incredibly hard to find their timing, and this played a big part in Cruz’s success throughout the year, Munhoz prepared for his accordingly and he connected with a perfect shot to knock him down.
Talking about the strike Cruz said, “Things just felt dreamy, I guess. But you don’t know that you’re hurt. You’re just kind of — you’re just in it. And then I guess he hit me there, and now that I’ve seen the film, he hit me with a hook again when I leaned against the fence, and that kind of buckled me a little to a single. So in my head, I hit the fence to a single-leg.”
He added, “There was no punches landing. So I’m on a single-leg and then I’m going down and doesn’t exist. It’s like that moment in time never existed. I received no punches in that entire moment in time, in my own head.”
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