Ex-UFC champ Henry Cejudo announces comeback and plots showdowns with Petr Yan and Aljamain Sterling
FORMER two-division UFC champion Henry Cejudo has confirmed he will return to the octagon later this year.
The Olympic gold medallist stunned mixed martial arts fans by announcing his retirement from the sport last May after beating Dominick Cruz at UFC 249.
The former two-division champion announced his retirement from MMA last year after beating Dominick Cruz[/caption]Cejudo has flirted with a return to the cage over the last few months but has finally made his comeback plans official.
During an interview with SportsNation, he said: “You guys stay tuned.
“Triple C is coming back. What’s up?”
The self-proclaimed King of Cringe has already set his sights on reclaiming the men’s bantamweight title, which Petr Yan lost to Aljamain Sterling last weekend via fourth-round disqualification.
He said: “I think the rematch [between Yan and Sterling] is going to happen.
“I would personally like to line up both Petr Yan and Aljamain curling Sterling silver at the same time.
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“I would like to beat up both of them.”
Yan’s reign as bantamweight king came to an end at UFC 259 courtesy of an illegal knee.
Cejudo, like many others, accused Sterling of play-acting in order to have the fight waved off but has since performed a U-turn on his initial stance.
In a video on his Twitter page, he said: “I do want to apologise to Aljamain – I really do.
Petr Yan lost the UFC men’s bantamweight title to Aljamain Sterling via disqualification[/caption]“I was a little upset. I was a little mad.
“But at the same time, I was more mad that he ended up doing the interview and then the tweets and saw the pictures of him with the belt.
“It just rubbed me the wrong way. But at the end of the day it was an illegal strike by Petr ‘The Ugly Potato’ Yan.
“I want to apologise to him for some of my tweets.”
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Prior to his apology, Cejudo said: “If I was to give Aljamain Sterling, curling silver, some advice: You need to understand your threshold.
“You ain’t going to get somebody – especially the caliber of athlete like him … you need to understand your threshold and how you can finish the race correctly, especially within five rounds.
“They’re going to have a rematch, and I don’t think it’s going to change.
“If I was Aljamain, I would tell him to forget all that volume and just worry about one strike.”