{"id":316301,"date":"2019-06-13T08:09:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=316301"},"modified":"2019-06-13T08:09:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:09:58","slug":"urijah-faber-discusses-appeal-of-fight-with-incredible-henry-cejudo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/urijah-faber-discusses-appeal-of-fight-with-incredible-henry-cejudo\/","title":{"rendered":"Urijah Faber discusses appeal of fight with &#8216;incredible&#8217; Henry Cejudo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after Henry Cejudo defeated Marlon Moraes to claim the UFC bantamweight title, he set his sights on three of the division&#8217;s best established stars: Dominick Cruz, Cody Garbrandt and Urijah Faber.<\/p>\n<p>Faber, who will emerge from retirement to battle Ricky Simon at UFC Sacramento, is all for this matchup with Cejudo, should the UFC choose to book it.<\/p>\n<p>The former WEC featherweight champion opened up on the possibility on a recent episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/the-jim-rome-podcast\/85-urijah-faber-6-11-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jim Rome podcast.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"2JUPnd\">\u201cFirst off, I\u2019ve been a huge fan of Henry,\u201d Urijah Faber explained (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2019\/6\/13\/18677324\/morning-report-urijah-faber-responds-to-henry-cejudos-callout-i-would-love-to-do-a-matchup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cThey call him \u2018The Cringe\u2019 because of the goofy stuff he does but you can\u2019t deny that he\u2019s got a mindset that is champion to the utmost. Gold medal as young as he did in the Olympics and then becoming a two-time champion, two different weight classes, two of the toughest weight classes &#8211; incredible. And you saw that champion mindset takeover. Moraes is a guy that is a champion as well so to see him getting outclassed in the first round and hit a mental switch to turn around and break a guy like Moraes speaks volumes.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Y1iuV8\">\u201cThings come up to matchups. I\u2019ve never been broken in a fight. He\u2019s a wrestler first that has really good standup as he\u2019s shown of late, and an iron jaw and a great mindset but a matchup with him and Cody is super exciting. I would love to do a matchup. There\u2019s nothing in the world that excites me more than fighting someone that could possible be the best of all time in combat sports. How exciting is that for somebody who has got their own goal to do that?<\/p>\n<p id=\"Nc1Vcp\">\u201cThen Dominick Cruz, you can never count that guy out,&#8221; Faber concluded. He\u2019s a champion of champions as well. So I liked his callouts and I would love to see a fight with myself or Cody, or Dominick Cruz for Henry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Does a fight between Urijah Faber and Henry Cejudo interest you?<\/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\/13\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after Henry Cejudo defeated Marlon Moraes to claim the UFC bantamweight title, he set his sights on three of the division&#8217;s best established stars: Dominick Cruz, Cody Garbrandt and Urijah Faber. Faber, who will emerge from retirement to battle Ricky Simon at UFC Sacramento, is all for this matchup with Cejudo, should the UFC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":313717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10180,39610,10116],"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>Urijah Faber discusses appeal of fight with &#039;incredible&#039; Henry Cejudo | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Urijah Faber explains why he&#039;s so willing to oblige a recent callout from UFC flyweight and bantamweight 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\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/urijah-faber-discusses-appeal-of-fight-with-incredible-henry-cejudo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Urijah Faber discusses appeal of fight with &#039;incredible&#039; 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