{"id":328004,"date":"2025-12-04T21:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/328004\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T21:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:18:07","slug":"confused-brandon-moreno-thought-henry-cejudo-rivalry-was-dead-ufc-323","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/328004\/","title":{"rendered":"Confused Brandon Moreno thought Henry Cejudo rivalry was dead | UFC 323"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI saw the interview,\u201d Moreno said at the UFC 323 media day<\/a>. \u201cI thought that rivalry was dead, but the guy is still thinking of me. That\u2019s crazy. In the past, we had our bad blood, and right now I\u2019m just super focused on fighting in the flyweight division, get the title back. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s going to make that cut again so that\u2019s it. I wish him all the success in his fight against Payton Talbott because Payton is an incredible opponent. I don\u2019t know what his real mentality against me is because the people get cameras in their faces, and everything changes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think we really had a chance to really sit down and actually [talk]. maybe the day will come,\u201d Cejudo told reporters at the UFC 323 media day<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve always thought that rivalry, that fight would have been great. You know, he denied me a couple times \u2014 even before I was champion. When everything happened between us, I wanted to fight him, the UFC was trying to make that fight but he chose Sergio Pettis in Mexico City. I went up to him in person at the UFC retreat at that time and I said, \u2018Hey, man, let\u2019s fight.\u2018 As a big brother. That\u2019s kind of how I felt to him. I think we ended in the most political way. We f\u2014king fight, because I was still a bit heated. But no, it\u2019s good bro. He\u2019s probably right. Dude, I\u2019m dehydrated, I\u2019m hungry, and I\u2019m over it. Sorry, Brandon.\u201d<\/p>\n

To see who else is fighting at UFC 323 on Dec. 6 in \u201cSin City\u201d click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI saw the interview,\u201d Moreno said at the UFC 323 media day. \u201cI thought that rivalry was dead,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,174978,1396,46234,1647],"class_list":{"0":"post-328004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-323","15":"tag-ufc-news","16":"tag-ufc-videos","17":"tag-upcoming-ufc-events"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}