Henry Cejudo will challenge Aljamain Sterling for the bantamweight championship on UFC 288 in May, seeking to regain the title he vacated three years prior.
“I want the leverage of having my belt,” Cejudo says. “For me, it’s not a challenge fighting him. It’s a challenge against myself.”
Following his TKO victory against Dominik Cruz in May 2020, Cejudo retired amid a six-fight win streak. Only months before that, Cejudo also relinquished the flyweight title, an impressive feat to be champion in two different divisions. Remarkably, that is not even the most phenomenal part of Cejudo’s journey, which occurred when he won a gold medal in wrestling at the Summer Olympics in 2008.
