All Rights Reserved. A year after graduating from Coronado, Cejudo won a gold medal at the 2007 Pan American Games. There, he prepared for the Junior World Championships; after a fifth place finish in 2005, Cejudo was able to claim the Silver medal for the United States of America. Instead, Cejudo pointed his opponents to defeat.

There was a problem saving your notification. On January 30, 2013, Cejudo announced on his Twitter page that he planned to begin training for a career in MMA. Cejudo cited the NSAC's process in determining Diaz's guilt as the reason for the boycott. It completed a goal the 2008 Olympic gold-medal wrestler set when he was 17. ©2020 United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. However, Aldo pulled out on April 8 due to visa issues. In December 2019, Cejudo agreed to relinquish the UFC Flyweight title in order to focus on the bantamweight division. This win made Cejudo the fourth fighter to hold championships simultaneously in two weight divisions in UFC, and earned him the Performance of the Night award. He quickly bounced back a week later with a Pan American title. He won the fight by split decision. You can expect him to … Keep up the great work. But it hurt many Latinos when he came out of retirement to support Trump. On September 16, 2015, Cejudo announced that he would refuse to fight in Nevada after the Nevada State Athletic Commission suspended and fined Nick Diaz following a failed drug test at UFC 182. From Misty May-Treanor's to Allyson Felix's, four go-anywhere workouts, Find out who along with Clarissa Chun qualified for London ... with some surprises, After Defending MMA Title Saturday, Former Team USA Wrestling Star Henry Cejudo Calls It A Career, 26 U.S. Olympians And Paralympians Nominated For 2019 ESPYS, 10 Years After His Historic Olympic Wrestling Win, Henry Cejudo Reflects On His Latest Title: UFC Champion, Olympic Wrestling Trials: Team Status & Surprises, '12 Things ... you might not know about wrestling.
Despite the lack of change in NSAC procedure, Cejudo ended his Nevada boycott to face UFC Flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson on April 23, 2016, at UFC 197 for the Flyweight title. ... Angel, both became prominent wrestlers in high school, combining to go 273-3 and winning a total of eight state championships during their careers. Three categories contained all U.S. Olympians out of many categories in which Americans were nominated. Cejudo faced Marlon Moraes on June 8, 2019 at UFC 238 for the vacant UFC Bantamweight Championship.

Cejudo became inactive until 2020 due to a shoulder injury. At the World's, he was taken out in the opening round by Uzbekistan's Erkin Tadzhimetov and placed 31st. Lol, ok guy.. Soundly losing? He earned notable victories over NCAA champion Jason Powell and three-time All-American Tanner Gardner before finishing fifth. Cejudo won the fight by unanimous decision. The win also earned Cejudo his second Performance of the Night bonus award. (You must log in or sign up to reply here. He is the third Olympic gold medalist wrestler in company history, after Mark Schultz and Kevin Jackson. Coronado High School graduate Henry Cejudo celebrates his win against Demetrious Johnson during their UFC flyweight title bout at UFC 227 on Aug. 4, 2018, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Cejudo followed up his 2008 Olympic gold medal in wrestling with a successful MMA career. He won the fight via TKO in the second round. Sun and clouds mixed. In his last competition of the year, Cejudo took part of the Sunkist Open, where he lost in the second round. He also competed in the World Championships in 2007. He then wrestled Azerbaijan's Namig Sevdimov, whom he took out after once again, losing the first period (3-5) and winning the next two (3-2, 4-3). He then took a break from his freestyle wrestling career. High 79F. In 2013 he made his debut in MMA and to everyone’s surprise, he won the match beating Michael Poe with KO.