{"id":283219,"date":"2018-08-19T11:04:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T18:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=283219"},"modified":"2018-08-19T11:04:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T18:04:58","slug":"joseph-benavidez-feels-hes-a-frontrunner-for-next-flyweight-title-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/joseph-benavidez\/joseph-benavidez-feels-hes-a-frontrunner-for-next-flyweight-title-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Benavidez feels he&#8217;s a frontrunner for next flyweight title shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time UFC flyweight title challenger Joseph Benavidez feels that, even though he&#8217;s currently riding a decision loss to Sergio Pettis, he has a strong claim to the next shot at new UFC flyweight champ Henry Cejudo. If Benavidez is able to win his next fight, a UFC Denver bout with former title challenger Ray Borg, his argument will be even stronger.<\/p>\n<p>Benavidez explained why he feels he deserves a fight with Cejudo in a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2018\/08\/why-ufc-flyweight-joseph-benavidez-is-smiling-title-demetrious-johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAjunkie<\/a>. His main argument is that he is the last man to beat Cejudo, having bested the current champ by split decision in December of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, I don\u2019t think anyone would argue if I fought [Cejudo] next,\u201d Benavidez said. \u201cI have a win over him, and that\u2019s the biggest thing going for me right now. I\u2019m his last loss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The six wins in a row I had, and the loss was a really close fight, and that was to a guy who lost to Cejudo by a huge margin. The fact that I have a win over him, I think that puts me in a good seat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Benavidez implies in the statement above, his loss to Sergio Pettis was preceded by six-straight victories over top-flight flyweights. While Benavidez was stuck in the mud at the height of Demetrious Johnson&#8217;s seemingly ironclad reign, having lost twice to the former champion, his future now looks much brighter with Cejudo as champion.<\/p>\n<p>While Benavidez could be one of the frontrunners for the next flyweight title shot, it&#8217;s worth noting that Henry Cejudo has been <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/henry-cejudo\/henry-cejudo-it-would-be-good-to-give-next-flyweight-title-shot-to-somebody-other-than-mighty-mouse\/\">angling for a fight with bantamweight champ TJ Dillashaw<\/a>, and Johnson also has strong claim to an immediate rematch.<\/p>\n<p>If Joseph Benavidez defeats Ray Borg at UFC Denver on November 10, would you be interested in seeing him fight Henry Cejudo for the title?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 8\/19\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time UFC flyweight title challenger Joseph Benavidez feels that, even though he&#8217;s currently riding a decision loss to Sergio Pettis, he has a strong claim to the next shot at new UFC flyweight champ Henry Cejudo. If Benavidez is able to win his next fight, a UFC Denver bout with former title challenger Ray Borg, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":283220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10506],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Joseph Benavidez feels he&#039;s a frontrunner for next flyweight title shot | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC flyweight title challenger Joseph Benavidez makes his case for another title shot, this time against new champion Henry Cejudo.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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