If it had been as much as Demetrious Johnson, Henry Cejudo had his closing battle at UFC Seattle.
Johnson, a two-time opponent and now good friend of Cejudo, reacted to the principle occasion of this previous Saturday’s Battle Evening card the place Cejudo misplaced a technical choice to Song Yadong after suffering a brutal, yet accidental eye poke within the third spherical. Cejudo was unable to proceed after his imaginative and prescient was compromised heading into the fourth spherical, resulting in referee Jason Herzog going to the judges’ scorecards.
Following the occasion, Johnson requested himself if he feels Cejudo ought to name it profession on his YouTube channel.
“I wish to see him retire,” Johnson mentioned. “He’s bought an ideal podcast with him and Kamaru Usman, … he’s bought two lovely youngsters, he’s bought a lovely spouse, he’s bought companies. There’s no cause for him to battle and maintain risking his well being.”
Cejudo first retired in Might 2020 after stopping Dominick Cruz at UFC 249 to defend his bantamweight title. It was a head-scratching choice with Cejudo’s recognition persevering with to develop with every nice efficiency, and the UFC moved on virtually instantly to a vacant title battle between Petr Yan and Jose Aldo at UFC 251 two months later.
The previous two-division champ ended his retirement and challenged then-champion Aljamain Sterling for the title at UFC 288, shedding a choice, after which shedding his subsequent two fights to now-champ Merab Dvalishvili, after which to Track on Saturday.
With the whole lot the Olympic gold medalist has completed within the sport of blended martial arts, Johnson feels Cejudo has nothing left to show.
“I imply, he’s crushed me, [was] flyweight champion, defended the flyweight belt, bantamweight champion, defended the bantamweight belt, that’s greater than half the motherf*ckers on the roster are ever going to do,” Johnson defined.
“Sure, I do know it’s such good cash, it’s simple to coach eight weeks and have a battle, however the man virtually went blind.”
