#ANDNEW! Cruz beats Dillashaw by split decision

It’s appropriate that on Muhammad Ali’s 74th birthday, Dominick Cruz floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee against TJ Dillashaw, regaining the UFC bantamweight title he never lost in the Octagon with a five-round split decision at TD Garden in Boston.Scores were 49-46, 48-47 and 46-49 for Cruz, who was forced to relinquish his title in January of 2014 due to a series of debilitating injuries. Sunday, he got it back in his first fight since a 61-second knockout of Takeya Mizug