{"id":322691,"date":"2025-12-03T12:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/322691\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:54:10","slug":"henry-cejudo-confirms-ufc-323-will-be-his-last-fight-probably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/322691\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Cejudo confirms UFC 323 will be his last fight (probably)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Win or lose, Henry Cejudo is (most likely) retiring (again) from MMA following his fight against Payton Talbott at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-323-fight-card-start-time-live-results-merab-vs-yan-2-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 323.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Or at least that\u2019s what he\u2019s saying, and you never know for sure whether a retirement from \u201cTriple C\u201d will stick. He retired with the flyweight and bantamweight belts back in 2020 and stayed retired for three years. He said he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2024\/2\/18\/24076479\/dana-white-explains-why-henry-cejudo-didnt-get-mic-time-after-ufc-298-tonight-was-merabs-night\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was retiring again<\/a> after his 2023 return resulted in losses to Aljamain Sterling and Merab Dvalishvili.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now Cejudo is confirming UFC 323 will be his swan song.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThis is it for me, guys,\u201d Cejudo said during a UFC 323 media scrum (via MMA Junkie). \u201cThis is it for me, unless Dana gets me a big fight with some other Mexican, then I\u2019d be willing to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That \u2018big fight with another Mexican\u2019 would be Brandon Moreno, who Cejudo really wants to fight on a hypothetical Cinco de Mayo card. If he thinks doing a retirement swerve will help him secure that fight \u2026 well, it hasn\u2019t worked in the past.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cOther than that, I think I\u2019ve done everything at the highest level since I was eleven years old, from cutting weight at that damn time. And there\u2019s just a lot of satisfaction in my life. I\u2019m ready to move on, too. I have a couple kids that want to play with their Dad 24\/7.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt\u2019s not about anything else but giving what I have, and what wasn\u2019t given to me in my last fight,\u201d Cejudo said of his latest retirement fight. \u201cThat\u2019s all. Fair shake. You know, despite whatever the outcome could come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cejudo\u2019s last fight was mess against Song Yadong that saw the Olympic gold medalist get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/2\/23\/24371140\/henry-cejudo-shares-photo-update-on-ufc-seattle-eye-injury-we-wanted-to-finish-the-fight-man\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">poked in the eye<\/a> so badly the fight was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/2\/22\/24370958\/ufc-seattle-results-song-yadong-decisions-henry-cejudo-controversial-eye-poke-demands-rematch-espn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sent to the scorecards<\/a> after the third round, netting Henry his third loss in a row. He\u2019s clearly hoping for redemption against Talbott, but will settle for a non-clusterf\u2014k of an ending to his fighting career on December 6th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Win or lose, Henry Cejudo is (most likely) retiring (again) from MMA following his fight against Payton Talbott&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,139445,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-322691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-ufc-on-paramount","14":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}