Henry Cejudo has garnered the eye of many in current months as we await his anticipated return.
Declaring he’ll be popping out of retirement and into the USA Anti Doping Company (USADA) pool following UFC 273, Cejudo should be examined for six months till he can compete once more within the Octagon. The final time we noticed the previous UFC Flyweight and Bantamweight champion was at UFC 249 in Might 2020 reverse Dominick Cruz, the place he retired immediately afterward.
A former titlist himself and extensively thought of the 135-pound division’s all-time finest, Cruz (24-3) has gotten again to his successful methods since dropping a controversial second-round technical knockout loss to “Triple C.” Due to how the fighter ended, “The Dominator” has been itching to get that one again.
“I don’t actually need to speak a lot about him as a result of he’s not even within the testing pool,” Cruz informed Helen Yee. “However I’m gonna say if he makes it via that subsequent six months of USADA — keep in mind, he jumped out of the testing pool so he had no stress on him, he wasn’t constructing any division, he simply took a break. Sat on his arms, obtained fats, obtained lazy, perhaps did no matter he needed exterior of the testing pool. Now he’s getting again into the testing pool which suggests he desires to get again right into a aggressive mindset.
“Consider a [Francis] Ngannou; Ngannou blew his knee out and he stays within the testing pool and stays placing the stress on himself to carry the division up,” he continued. “In case you go away and also you retire, you’re relieving your self the stress, you’re not in a aggressive mindset. You don’t get to leap proper again into the highest. You get to leap to the again on the road. So, if he does make it via the following six months testing clear, I’d like to be the primary person who he faces to finish up again within the division as a result of he’s not on the prime anymore. He retired, he’s all the best way within the again, I don’t care what he’s performed. The best way that our final struggle went, there must be a rematch as a result of it wasn’t clear.”
With Cruz’s two current victories coming in 2021 over the likes of Casey Kenney and Pedro Munhoz, he absolutely intends on preventing sooner somewhat than later in 2022 and getting one step nearer to turning into a three-time UFC Bantamweight champion.
