Henry Cejudo Calls out Ryan Garcia for “Money Fight”
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Henry Cejudo shocked the MMA community early May.The Olympic Gold Medalist, Former UFC flyweight champion, and former UFC bantamweight champion retired unexpectedly. Cejudo announced his retirement after his second round TKO win over former champion, Dominick Cruz.
Cejudo declared his retirement and stated he would only come back if the UFC paid him and they know the exact number it would take to bring him back.
Following his announcement, the UFC proceeded to remove the former two division champion from the rankings and even announced Petr Yan vs Jose Aldo for the vacant UFC bantamweight title. The UFC has moved on and so has the former champion.
Apparently, “Triple C” may not be retired from all combat sports after all.
Cejudo now wants the undefeated WBC Silver lightweight boxing champion.
He recently came out and called out Ryan Garcia.
“I think I’ve done everything in MMA, Olympic champ, flyweight champ, bantamweight champ, I’ve defended both of my titles,” Cejudo told TMZ. “I think the only one I want to do is to make Ryan Garcia bend the knee.
“I really don’t think he’s that good. I really don’t. I think with a proper team, the right game plan, I believe I could make him bend the knee in front of Oscar De La Hoya. I feel like I have the tools, the power, the strength, the experience, and we wanna make this happen, potentially in Saudi Arabia so we got the money guy. We got the money guy that’s willing to pay both of us. It’s just up to ‘Randy Candy’ Garcia to sign that contract.”
The boxing match sounds far-fetched but we have seen UFC/Boxing crossover fights. Most notably the fight between Conor McGregor and Floyd Maywaether.
Will boxing and UFC make this fight?
