Dominick Cruz Plans To Fight One Last Time, Hoping For Early 2025

Former UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz hasn’t tapped out of his profession simply but … as the longer term Corridor of Famer tells TMZ Sports activities he desires to placed on the gloves one final time and step again into the UFC Octagon.

We caught up with 39-year-old Cruz, who’s presently in Mexico Metropolis on the UFC Efficiency Institute, and he stated he’s within the technique of “building myself up” for a bout.

“I’ll tell you, I think I got a last dance,” he stated. “I want one last dance in me. Just go out there and have fun. And when I say fun, I mean fight to the bitter death and see what I have in me.”

It could mark the primary time he has been within the Octagon since 2022 … which he misplaced through fourth-round KO to Marlon Vera.

In a really perfect world, the previous champ stated he would have taken a battle this yr — however now says early 2025 is “what’s going to work and line up.”

“I wanted to get after it this year,” he stated. “But it’s not looking like a matchup is getting negotiated exactly the way it is. There’s some guys out there who looked really good; that whole division is stacked.”