{"id":383034,"date":"2026-01-02T07:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/383034\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T07:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T07:04:10","slug":"leaving-the-sport-as-one-of-the-greatest-of-all-time-fighters-fans-pay-respects-to-henry-cejudo-following-loss-to-payton-talbott-in-retirement-fight-at-ufc-323","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/383034\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Leaving The Sport As One Of The Greatest Of All Time’ – Fighters & Fans Pay Respects To Henry Cejudo Following Loss To Payton Talbott In Retirement Fight At UFC 323"},"content":{"rendered":"

Henry Cejudo<\/a>‘s four-fight second UFC run will end winless, as Payton Talbott<\/a> managed to take a victory in Cejudo’s swan song at UFC 323<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Talbott managed to get the better of Cejudo in the first round, connecting on the more effective strikes while taking advantage of an aggressive Cejudo. Talbott even scored a pair of takedowns on Cejudo during the opening frame.<\/p>\n

The former champion was clipped early in the second round, getting knocked down. Cejudo, however, swept for a reversal and got into top position. Talbott got back to his feet with about 90 seconds left in the round, throwing a flurry that included body shots that impacted Cejudo. Cejudo fought back with a wild flurry of his own, even though he was briefly dropped.<\/p>\n

While Cejudo got top control again in the third, Talbott continued to fight his fight and land more shots to the body, going on to claim the unanimous decision win.<\/p>\n

Payton Talbott Retires Henry Cejudo, Scores Decision Win At UFC 323<\/p>\n

Talbott not only gets the biggest win of his career, but he’s now won two straight since suffering his first career loss at UFC 311 earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Cejudo, who debuted in MMA in 2013, made his UFC debut in December 2014, going on to be a key figure in the UFC’s flyweight division. After unsuccessfully challenging Demetrious Johnson at UFC 197 for the flyweight title, Cejudo defeated “Mighty Mouse” in their UFC 227 rematch.<\/p>\n

Cejudo then claimed the bantamweight championship at UFC 238 to become the UFC’s fourth champ-champ. He’d initially retire after retaining the bantamweight title over Dominick Cruz at UFC 249 but unretired in 2023, going 0-4, including tonight’s loss to Talbott, as well as an unsuccessful, controversial bantamweight title fight with Aljamain Sterling at UFC 288.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Henry Cejudo‘s four-fight second UFC run will end winless, as Payton Talbott managed to take a victory in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,35892,638,56776,82,66312],"class_list":["post-383034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-henry-cejudo","tag-mma","tag-payton-talbott","tag-sports","tag-ufc-323"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383034","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=383034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}