As Dominick Cruz stands on the brink of regaining one world championship he never lost in the Octagon, he still has thoughts about the other one, which has been all but forgotten.
The Alliance MMA fighter, who meets T.J. Dillashaw for the UFC bantamweight title on Sunday night in Boston in the main event of UFC Fight Night 81, was recognized as the UFC's first 135-pound kingpin in Dec. 2010. But his lineal world title stretched back to when he knocked out Brian Bowles in March of that year to claim the World Extreme Cagefighting championship, something which has been reduced to a footnote in mixed martial arts history.