{"id":111642,"date":"2014-09-09T05:05:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T12:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=111642"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:33:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:33:26","slug":"henry-cejudo-on-failed-weight-cut-im-very-disappointed-in-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/henry-cejudo-on-failed-weight-cut-im-very-disappointed-in-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Cejudo On Failed Weight Cut: &#8220;I&#8217;m Very Disappointed In Myself&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/dana-white-says-henry-cejudo-can-fight-at-a-heavier-weight-or-not-fight-at-all\/henry-cejudo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-110216\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/henry-cejudo.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"henry cejudo\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-110216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/henry-cejudo.jpg 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/henry-cejudo-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/henry-cejudo-361x250.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Henry Cejudo was set to make his UFC debut last month at UFC 177 against Scott Jorgensen.  The gold medal Olympian was unable to make the weight cut down to 125 pounds however, and after falling ill hours before the weigh ins, he withdrew from the fight.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t Cejudo&#8217;s first time missing weight, he has missed weight once before, and no-showed a weigh in, citing vomiting and flu-like symptoms as the cause.  UFC President said Cejudo would get another shot in the UFC, but it wouldn&#8217;t be at 125 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Cejudo joined Ariel Helwani on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2014\/9\/8\/6123233\/henry-cejudo-on-bad-weight-cut-at-ufc-177-i-m-very-disappointed-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The MMA Hour<\/a> to discuss the failed weight cut.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Everything was good, I had gotten down to 130 the night before the weigh-ins, and I was only four pounds away from my goal, and that night I just had severe cramping. I couldn\u2019t sleep. Every 10 minutes or so I had cramping going on in my back, in my thigh, in my foot, just pretty much every part of my body. It\u2019s not that I\u2019m fat or I\u2019m overweight, I\u2019m very lean. My body had pretty much just taken a toll. And it\u2019s happened a couple of times already. I\u2019ve always thought I could get down to &#8212; because I\u2019ve done it my whole life &#8212; get down to 125, but it\u2019s a little different now. I\u2019m much older.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m very disappointed in myself.  I\u2019m still a little disappointed. I don\u2019t want to call it depression, but I am very sad. Because I want to compete. I\u2019m a competitor, I love to compete. In the year 2013 I fought six times. I fought four times in two-and-a-half months. I love to compete, and I love to fight. It\u2019s just that I think my body has just grown and I think if I ever make 125, if the UFC would ever allow me, there would have to be more science involved into my weight cuts. It can\u2019t just be toughness and strong and willful minded, because that\u2019s just going to be put me in a coffin.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Do you think Dana White will give in and let Cejudo compete at 125 pounds again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Cejudo was set to make his UFC debut last month at UFC 177 against Scott Jorgensen. The gold medal Olympian was unable to make the weight cut down to 125 pounds however, and after falling ill hours before the weigh ins, he withdrew from the fight. 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