Former UFC champion Henry Cejudo is going to face an actor from Euphoria in his boxing debut later this month. <\/p>\n
Per ESPN’s Brett Okamoto<\/a>, Javon Walton will replace Nurideen Shabazz to take on Cejudo in the main event of the Sept. 26 Misfits Boxing show in Miami. <\/p>\n “I knew all along that Dean The B—- would back out, and so I am not surprised,” Cejudo said in a statement to Okamoto. “But I have a new opponent now, who thinks he’s a fighter, but Wanna will be playing another robot by the time I’m done with him.”<\/p>\n Walton, who turned 20 on July 22, is best known for his role as Ashtray on the first two seasons of the HBO show Euphoria. He turned pro as a boxer in 2023 after signing with Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions.<\/p>\n In four fights as a professional, Walton has a 3-0-1 record with one win via TKO. The Sept. 26 bout will be his first appearance since defeating Anthony Mora in September 2025.<\/p>\n “Henry Cejudo is an Olympic gold medalist and a former UFC champion, so I know exactly the level of athlete I’m stepping in there with,” Walton told Okamoto. “This fight came up out of nowhere and I stepped up without hesitation. I stay ready for moments like this. This is boxing, and this is my world.”<\/p>\n Cejudo was originally going to challenge Shabazz, but Shabazz withdrew from the match due to an injury.<\/p>\n The 39-year-old Cejudo is one of 11 fighters in UFC history to hold championships in two different weight classes. He’s one of four UFC fighters who was a simultaneous champion in two divisions, along with Conor McGregor, Amanda Nunes, Daniel Cormier,<\/p>\n Cejudo won the UFC flyweight championship from Demetrious Johnson in 2018. He captured the vacant UFC bantamweight title by defeating Marlon Moraes in 2019.<\/p>\n The California native vacated the flyweight title in December 2019 to focus on competing exclusively at bantamweight. He vacated the bantamweight crown in May 2020 after announcing his retirement.<\/p>\n After a three-year absence, Cejudo returned to mixed martial arts in May 2023 to challenge Alljamain Sterling for the UFC bantamweight championship. He lost via split decision, kicking off a string of four consecutive defeats and leading to his second retirement<\/a> after a loss to Payton Talbott at UFC 323.<\/p>\n Cejudo’s MMA career ended with a 16-6 record, including eight wins via knockout. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC champion Henry Cejudo is going to face an actor from Euphoria in his boxing debut later…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-893451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893451","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=893451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}