Initially calling a comeback in August against the currently injured, Merab Dvalishvili at UFC 292 later this summer, former duel welterweight champion Henry Cejudo has now turned his attention to an interim title fight with upcoming title challenger, Sean O’Malley.
Cejudo, which cut more than three years octagon Earlier this month, he headlined at UFC 288 in Newark, New Jersey against Aljamain Sterling – dropping a split and split decision loss to the defending bantamweight champion.
After suffering only the third professional loss in his gold-studded pro career, former undisputed bantamweight and bantamweight champion and Olympic gold medalist, Cejudo initially called out the fight with #1 ranked bantamweight, Dvalishvili in the wake of losing to fellow Georgian, Sterling. .
Henry Cejudo has offered to fight Sean O’Malley for interim gold at UFC 292
However, despite confirmation that Sterling will headline at TD Garden in August in a relationship with Montana forward, O’Malley, Cejudo claims the champ is “playing games” — offering to fight the latter in a pinned-down interim title fight instead.
“If Aljamain Sterling plays this game, he’s not ready [for UFC 292]He needs more time, let’s wait ‘I Need My Gold Back’ A quarrel between me and Sean O’Malley,” said Henry Cejudo Twitter. “It’s a bigger fight — that’s what the UFC wanted in the beginning. It’s the same reason they brought me out to chase down and beat Aljamain Sterling.”
“And if they think Sean O’Malley and I are going to be a bigger fight, why don’t we make it happen?” Henry Cejudo asked. “I wanted Merab (Dvalishvili), and I’m still willing to wait for Merab, but if that fight [Sterling versus O’Malley] With Sean O’Malley’s opening up event, I’m 100% into Dana White. “
In his latest professional victory, then-bantamweight champion Cejudo successfully defended the crown in a second round TKO win over former two-time division boss Dominck Cruz in the co-main event of UFC 249 in May 2020.