In the lead-up to this past weekend’s UFC Vegas 46 card, White was asked about the latest on his ongoing back and forth with Cejudo, and if the 34-year-old may be a case deserving of special treatment like other UFC greats have gotten in the past.
White: ‘ Why are we talking about this? How does this make sense?’ “You don’t call people out and call them names on Twitter and then expect we’re gonna pick up the phone and go, ‘Hey, we’ve got a fight for you!’” If you really want to fight, get down here and make some calls and say, ‘Hey, what do I need to do to get back in to fight? I want to jump back in.’ That’s how you do it,” he continued. His manager has 280,000 fighters under contract in the UFC. You could go online and start talking to Volkanovski and calling him names and all this stuff, but what you’d really have to do is pick up the phone and call and say, ‘Hey, what’s the procedure I need to follow to get back into a fight? I want to unretire and when can I get back into the USADA pool? How fast and what do I need to do?’ There’s a way to go about it if you really want to fight, if that’s what you really want to do, you want the Volkanovski fight,” White told Yahoo Sports. Mandatory Credit: Jasen Vinlove-USA TODAY Sports Dana White tells Henry Cejudo: ‘ There’s a way to go about it if you really want to fight’ Jacksonville, Florida, USA Henry Cejudo (red gloves) celebrates after defeating Dominick Cruz (blue gloves) during UFC 249 at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena. However, with “The Messenger” recently saying he would be open to a fight with interim bantamweight champion Petr Yan, the door for a return still seems open.īut, the UFC boss says there are ways Cejudo can go about a return, and how he has been going about things so far is will get him nowhere with the MMA world leader. The ship has sailed on a sought-after fight between Cejudo (16-2) and featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski (23-1) after Chan Sung Jung was stamped as the championship replacement for original opponent Max Holloway, at UFC 273. As Cejduo continues his months-long campaign to evolve from “Triple C” to “C4,” and attempt to become the first - and likely only - athlete to be an Olympic gold medalist and three-division UFC champion.
The war of words between the UFC president and the former two-division champion has been a topic of conversation and source of news content for over two weeks now. Just have your manager call the matchmakers and book a fight. If Henry Cejudo really wants to fight in the UFC again his former employer Dana White says making a return happen is simple. Mandatory Credit: Republican National Convention via USA TODAY NETWORK AugWashington, D.C., USA ( Editors Note: Screen grab from Republican National Convention video stream) Dana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, speaks during the Republican National Convention at the Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C.
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