Former UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz felt his career was “on borrowed time” as he dealt with a recurring shoulder issue. The injury bug has haunted Cruz (24-4 MMA, 7-3 UFC), affecting multiple areas of his body, leading to many starts and stops over his professional MMA career that began in 2005. Even though he was dealing with a shoulder issue, Cruz decided to book a fight for Feb. 22 against Rob Font, which would have been his first since a loss to Marlon Vera in August 2022. However, his body wouldn’t allow him to complete a full camp, even with adjusting the intensity, and decided to withdraw from the fight and call it a career . “I had one dislocation about eight weeks prior to this recent one that I posted,” Cruz said on “The Anik & Florian Podcast.” “That one kind of set the stage that, ‘OK, I’m on a different kind of timeline than just age,’ which I didn’t really add to the equation.
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