VIDEO | Cody Garbrandt recalls hilarious backstage encounter with ‘dork’ Dominick Cruz

Dominick Cruz is set to defend his bantamweight title in the co-main event of UFC 207 against Cody Garbrandt at the year-end event taking place on December 30 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

There has been a lot of trash talk between Cruz and Garbrandt and the two surely can’t wait to step into the Octagon and take care of business.

Leading up to the fight, Garbrandt appeared as a guest on Mark Bell’s PowerCast and chatted about the fight and recalled a funny backstage encounter with what he described as a very fearful Cruz.

“Right before my fight I went up to him and caught eyes and said, ‘Alright I’m gonna say something,'” Garbrandt said (at 38:30 of the video). “This dude has been talking shit, I’m gonna let him know.

“I walk up to him and he’s like, ‘What’s up buddy?’ like we were cool. And I was like, ‘Don’t what’s up buddy me you motherf***er. You wanna talk shit in the media and this and that? I should dump you on your head right now and slap the hell out of you and he was like literally, I could feel the fear off him. He was like looking around to see if security [was around]. I’m just like backing him up and Daniel Cormier was kind of right over here and Dominick’s voice squeaked out like, ‘F**k you’ [in a high pitch].

“In my mind, I was like, ‘What?’ And then I was like, ‘F**k me? F**k you, you dork!’ and that’s when Daniel broke it up.”

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