Dominick Cruz and Keith Peterson, friends?
The animosity between the two appears to have cooled if Cruz’s social media activity is to be believed. The former UFC bantamweight champion and current UFC color commentator shared a few images of himself and Peterson from Saturday’s UFC Vegas 114 event in Las Vegas, where Cruz stood face to face and side by side with his longtime officiating nemesis.
“You can run but you can’t hide,” Cruz wrote in an accompanying caption.
Cruz has frequently criticized Peterson’s refereeing capabilities ever since Cruz suffered a technical knockout loss to Henry Cejudo in a bantamweight championship bout at UFC 249 in May 2020, a contest that Peterson officiated. Cejudo had Cruz hurt late in the second round and Peterson stepped in to wave off the bout with just two seconds left on the clock, immediately drawing Cruz’s ire.
Afterwards, Cruz claimed Peterson was intoxicated, famously saying, “The guy smelled like alcohol and cigarettes so who knows what he was doing?”
Time did not heal those wounds as Cruz recently went into further detail on Demetrious Johnson’s MightyCast show, where he called Peterson a “complete f*ck-up.” Peterson has never publicly responded to Cruz’s accusations and insults.
Now, at least, there is peace between the two, or enough for them to pose for a photo op anyway. Cruz also teased the possibility of Peterson appearing on his Love and War podcast, which has featured past Cruz rivals Urijah Faber and T.J. Dillashaw.
I just went back and watched the stoppage, it seemed fine. There may have been a headbutt.
But Cruz got dropped and ate 10+ unanswered punches.
Sorry Flop , slow day besides Nate The Great
Dang. Didn’t realize KP was a full on midget. I knew he wasn’t big but dang.
It was during covid, iirc
He probably had hand sanitiser on
What is going on in that pic. Since when does Dom Cruz make anyone look tiny?
Good. It was unfair for Cruz to slander a guy’s character because he couldnt handle getting his ass kicked. I get that it must really suck to lose with a lot of people watching and you want someone to blame, but you can disagree with the ref without the booze and cigs bs.
But thats how closet gays are.
Cruz also has a small dog
That gives it away
Complaining about one man saying some sketchy shit about another…. Goes on to be one man who is saying sketchy shit about another 