{"id":380790,"date":"2025-12-30T17:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/380790\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T17:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:01:08","slug":"henry-cejudo-set-to-headline-raf-6-against-ufc-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/380790\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Cejudo set to headline RAF 6 against UFC veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Henry Cejudo is returning to the wrestling mats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Promotional officials confirmed to MMA Fighting that the Olympic gold medalist and former two-division UFC champion is set to headline RAF 6, which takes place Feb. 28 at Mullett Arena in Tempe, Ariz., streaming exclusively on FOX Nation. Cejudo faces 37-fight UFC veteran Clay Guida in the matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cejudo recently announced his retirement \u2014 for the second time \u2014 from mixed martial arts competition after competing in his final bout at UFC 323. Cejudo dropped a unanimous decision to Payton Talbott, his fourth straight loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe Messenger\u201d was winless after ending his first retirement \u2014 which happened after Cejudo stopped Dominick Cruz in the second round at UFC 249 in May 2020. After a three-year hiatus, Cejudo returned and dropped a split decision to then-bantamweight champ Aljamain Sterling at UFC 288 in May 2023. The 38-year-old also dropped a unanimous decision to Merab Dvalishvili, and a technical decision to Song Yadong in the main event of UFC Seattle in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Before competing in MMA, Cejudo won the Olympic gold medal in 2008 to become, at the time, the youngest American to achieve that feat at just 21 years of age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Henry Cejudo is returning to the wrestling mats. Promotional officials confirmed to MMA Fighting that the Olympic gold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-380790","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-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380790","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=380790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}