![]() So why would you bring back Cejudo, who’s playing it safe on the sidelines? For what? He doesn’t bring any extra views. “You look at the rest of the division, Petr Yan and Aljamain Sterling - two top contenders that are fighting for the belt coming up - those guys aren’t asking for that kind of money and they’re going to bring a crazy fight to the table. So probably not because he wants a certain amount of money before he’ll come back and fight, and I don’t know if he’ll ever get that. “He has this thing where he believes he’s worth millions and millions of dollars and I think that Dana doesn’t care. “I don’t think so,” Cruz said about the UFC bringing Cejudo back. The Tweet gained little traction which Cruz ascribes to the fact that the UFC has minimal financial interest in bringing Cejudo back. In the years before his retirement, Cejudo embraced a “King of Cringe” persona that he credits with “saving the flyweight division” (something many flyweights take umbrage with) and has since continued to double down on this public image, recently Tweeting at UFC President Dana White that he could beat the flyweight, bantamweight, and featherweight champions in two rounds. In contrast, Cejudo defended the bantamweight title just once and held it for only 352 total days before retiring. He then held the belt another two-and-a-half years while suffering injury setbacks that ultimately forced the UFC to vacate his title. It isn’t if you can win the belt, it’s how long can you hold it? How long can you stay at the top with that target on your back?”Ĭruz knows a little about what he speaks, having won the WEC championship in 2010 and then defending it and the unified UFC title four more times over the next 20 months. To me, that’s the sign of a real champion. That target on your back, that’s what breaks champions, the target on your back over a long period of time. You’re keeping yourself safe and trying to find yourself until you get the right position to come back. “It’s not championship stuff when you do that, to me. “He retired after that to not have to face anybody but he’s still chirping,” Cruz told ESPN. However, since then, Cejudo has continued to be active in the MMA trash talk space, and that’s something that doesn’t sit well with his final opponent. Cejudo stopped Cruz in the second round (a stoppage Cruz maintains was premature) to retain his title and then promptly retired from MMA. Last year, Dominick Cruz returned to MMA from a three-and-a-half year layoff to challenge Henry Cejudo for the UFC bantamweight title.
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