{"id":911099,"date":"2026-09-27T02:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T02:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911099\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T02:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T02:42:08","slug":"highlights-cejudo-escapes-with-win-in-misfits-boxing-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911099\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights: Cejudo Escapes With Win In Misfits Boxing Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) double champion, Henry Cejudo, made his boxing debut earlier tonight (Sat., Sept. 26, 2026) in the main event of the Misfits Boxing event that went down inside James L. Knight Center in Miami, Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Initially set to face Deen The Great, Cejudo was matched up against actor and amateur boxer, Javon \u201cWanna\u201d Walton as a replacement, who came in with an undefeated record of 3-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">There was not a ton of action to speak of early, as it took Cejudo a bit to get going. The same went for Walton, which is unferstandable since he took the fight on short notice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">It was evident that Walton was going to have the speed advantage early on., and he used that to get in and out and tag the Olympic gold medal winner. But his success didn\u2019t last as it was Cejudo who started to take control and dictate the pace of the fight. After four rounds of action, \u201cTriple C\u201d had done enough to earn a razor thin split-decision win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Check out some of the highlights below:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Cejudo looked pretty good in his boxing debut, and it seems as if it\u2019s something that he could commit to for the forseeable future, especially if he can re-book his fight against Deen The Great.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Just dont expect Zuffa Boxing to come calling anytine soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For more boxing news and notes click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) double champion, Henry Cejudo, made his boxing debut earlier tonight (Sat., Sept. 26,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[36109,49,48,641,33601,638,82],"class_list":["post-911099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911099","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=911099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}