{"id":316176,"date":"2019-06-11T06:55:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T13:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=316176"},"modified":"2019-06-11T06:55:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T13:55:08","slug":"henry-cejudo-targets-featherweight-title-fight-with-frankie-edgar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/henry-cejudo-targets-featherweight-title-fight-with-frankie-edgar\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Cejudo targets featherweight title fight with Frankie Edgar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Cejudo is now the UFC flyweight and bantamweight champion. The former Olympic wrestler has held the flyweight belt since last summer and captured the bantamweight strap with a TKO defeat of Marlon Moraes at UFC 238 last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Yet he&#8217;s not resting on his laurels.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Henry Cejudo, Chael Sonnen and Cris Cyborg | Ariel Helwani&#039;s MMA Show [Episode 50 -- 6\/10\/19]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fyxZFoEDiZ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Ariel Helwani&#8217;s MMA Show on Monday, Henry Cejudo set his sights on the UFC featherweight title.<\/p>\n<p>That title will next be on the line at UFC 240 in July, when reigning champion Max Holloway will look to defend it opposite former lightweight champion Frankie Edgar. Cejudo is hoping Edgar pulls of the upset against Holloway as he believes matches up well with the former lightweight champ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy not? Are you guys going to count me out again?\u201d Henry Cejudo said of a potential featherweight title shot (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-238-results-stream-fight-card-news-highlights-start-time-date\/2019\/6\/10\/18660418\/ufc-henry-cejudo-frankie-edgar-featherweight-title-fight-take-down-max-holloway-mma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Mania<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p id=\"FFiHqk\">\u201cThe fight I would really want, and this has everything to do with competition; if Frankie Edgar wins this fight against Max Holloway that\u2019s the fight I am interested in,&#8221; he said.\u00a0\u201cWe had talked about it before, captain Eric [Albarracin] mentioned it. I like his stature, I think the height seems very well, he is a wrestler. I think if he wins the fight against Max Holloway, then me and him can throw down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Edgar also happens to be a training partner of Moraes. In fact, he was Moraes&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/marlon-moraes-believes-sparring-with-frankie-edgar-is-key-to-beating-henry-cejudo\/\">chief sparring partner<\/a> ahead of his loss to Henry Cejudo.<\/p>\n<p id=\"qyMtGs\">\u201cIt\u2019s nothing against Frankie, I just want to compete against the best,&#8221; Cejudo said. &#8220;I know he took offense when I called him out with Marlon Moraes, I know he didn\u2019t believe in me&#8230;but why not? Why can\u2019t I win another belt? They have been telling me I can\u2019t. They told me I was going to get knocked out by Marlon, they told me I\u2019d get stopped by Demetrious Johnson, T.J. Dillashaw.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"aSfCye\">\u201cThe sky is the limit, I want to challenge my mind, body and soul. If he wins this fight and he wants to do it, let\u2019s make it happen,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think we&#8217;ll see Henry Cejudo contend for a third UFC title in the future?<\/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 6\/11\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Cejudo is now the UFC flyweight and bantamweight champion. The former Olympic wrestler has held the flyweight belt since last summer and captured the bantamweight strap with a TKO defeat of Marlon Moraes at UFC 238 last weekend. Yet he&#8217;s not resting on his laurels. Speaking on Ariel Helwani&#8217;s MMA Show on Monday, Henry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":298466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10180,39610],"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>Henry Cejudo targets featherweight title fight with Frankie Edgar | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC flyweight and bantamweight champion Henry Cejudo calls for a future featherweight title fight with formr lightweight champion Frankie Edgar.\" \/>\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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