Henry
Cejudo is contemplating retirement yet again.
The former
Ultimate Fighting Championship double champ previously
announced a surprising retirement in May 2020 after defeating
Dominick
Cruz via technical knockout at UFC 249.
“Triple C” came out of retirement for a bantamweight gold bid
against
Aljamain
Sterling at
UFC
288 in May last year, suffering a split decision loss.
Cejudo is now slated to face
Merab
Dvalishvili at
The HJR Experiment. “I think to have to lose it
to Aljamain ... I think if I was going to go maybe down the ladder,
I would probably be done with fighting again because it’s just like
the sport is hard, man. Training camps, having two kids, and things
like that. … It’s all or nothing, man.
“It’s more of a motivation of vengeance. It’s not always the love.
Even coming back to the sport, I was like, ‘I want to test myself.’
I like the matchup [vs. Sterling]. It has been three years, but it
was also the financial compensation. I mean, there’s nothing easier
to make money than the fight game.”
UFC 298 is headlined by a featherweight title clash, where reigning
champion
Alexander
Volkanovski will take on an undefeated contender
Ilia
Topuria. In the co-main event, former UFC middleweight champion
Robert
Whittaker will face another divisional veteran in
Paulo
Costa.