Cruz Reacts To Faber’s ‘Scumbag’ Steroid Accusations

The first ever and only two-time UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz made a successful return to the octagon this past January 17. Facing the champ of the time TJ Dillashaw after only fighting once in five years, following a string of harrowing and career threatening injuries, ‘The Dominator’ completed his fairy tale comeback with a split decision win over ‘The Viper.’ Now set to face his old rival Urijah Faber in the rubber match at UFC 199, Cruz is once again embroiled in a feud with a member of Team Alpha Male.

First off it was Dillashaw who got the verbal bashing from Cruz, although that started back in 2014 when he was still a member of TAM. Now having left, it’s Faber who represents the California based fight squad, but ‘The Viper’ is never far from the conversation.

During a recent appearance on ‘The Herd,’ Faber pretty much accused his former team mate Dillashaw and Cruz of taking PED’s (performance enhancing drugs). Cruz shot him down during that interview, but the comments made by ‘The California Kid’ have not really been fully addressed. Not until now, that is.

Speaking during the most recent episode of The MMA Hour, Cruz tackles the subject of his beef with Faber, and also reacts to those accusations of steroid use levelled at him and Dillashaw.

“This is the thing, you can say whatever you need to say about me, I understand, all is fair in love and war. Like, I get that he is going to come and attack me. I get that he wants to attack my character. He’s been doing this to me since 2007. This is the Faber game. He wants to turn everybody against you and make himself the good guy. He can’t handle being the not liked guy.

“But, at the same time, this is all based off of fear. Judgment is the main act of fear. If I’m on [PEDs], what, is everybody on it? Everybody he’s lost to? This is his excuse. He’s setting up excuses for the loss that I’m about to serve him.”

“Faber is showing his true colors,” Cruz said. “He has no professionalism. No loyalty. Before he said anything about me, he attacked Dillashaw on The Herd show and tried to deny it and say he didn’t. But, it’s like he’s trying to destroy Dillashaw’s career, and this is somebody who is supposed to be his family, his best friend. They were brothers at one point. I mean, I’m not the biggest fan of Dillashaw. He’s got his own things. That’s needless to say, you can see in our last fight build-up that he’s not my favorite person either. But he does mentor kids in wrestling and he does do stuff, and his own best friend is accusing him of using PEDs. It’s like, what are you doing?

“That’s a scumbag move. That’s your ex-friend, all because he left your camp? I mean, that shows the true colors of Faber. When you’re attacking me, I can understand that because he wants to ruin my faith because we’re fighting. But when you’re attacking a friend because he left your camp, you’re just a scumbag. It’s a lack of character, and that’s something I haven’t liked about Faber since day one. We’re finally seeing the true colors of Faber come out when he makes accusations with absolutely no proof of anything and one of the best doping agencies on planet Earth.”

“Faber got this fight because I don’t like him, and because of that people want to see me beat him up,” Cruz said. “Everywhere I went, it wasn’t like, ‘who are you fighting next?’ It’s like, ‘when are you going to beat up Faber again and shut him up? That guy talks so much. He makes a bunch of excuses.’ People want me to beat him up. He can say whatever he wants about me not having fans — everywhere I go, I got people asking me to beat him up. So I don’t really care what he does, but I know that I’m going to go out there and stop him again from touching the belt, and that’s something I can control.

“He can say whatever he wants about my body and all that stuff that he was saying, how it changed. Man, I was out for four-plus years. That’s like 1,500 days. Maybe a quarter of those, maybe like 700 of days I could work out. I was sitting behind the desk studying fights, analyzing fights, breaking things down. There was a point where I hit 175 pounds. I was depressed at times. There was a lot going in my life, that, I had let go of fighting. When I got that Dillashaw call to fight, I wasn’t going to tell the UFC no. I just said screw it, let’s go.

“I was rehabbing still when they asked me for that fight at nine months of my third ACL reconstruction. I got ready off the couch, off the analyst desk, went out there and fought and did my job, while he’s making excuses about PEDs. So it’s like, I’m doing my job and that’s all I can do. On June 4th, I’m going to do my job and shut that idiot up.”