When former bantamweight titleholder Dominick Cruz tore an ACL, forcing him out of his scheduled UFC 148 trilogy against Urijah Faber in July 2012, he sat atop the mountain of 135-pound fighters in the world. Two surgeries and nearly three years later, the bantamweight division has moved on without Cruz. On Saturday, the 29-year-old returned to the cage against top-five-ranked Takeya Mizugaki and demolished him in 61 seconds, earning a shot to reclaim the belt he once wore. “Nobody does that to Mizugaki. Nobody.
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