{"id":322418,"date":"2019-08-14T09:26:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T16:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=322418"},"modified":"2019-08-14T09:26:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T16:26:05","slug":"urijah-faber-questions-if-henry-cejudo-is-backing-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/urijah-faber-questions-if-henry-cejudo-is-backing-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Urijah Faber questions if Henry Cejudo is backing down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Urijah Faber wonders whether or not Henry Cejudo truly wants to fight him.<\/p>\n<p>Back in June, Cejudo became a UFC &#8220;champ-champ.&#8221; He entered his UFC 238 headliner against Marlon Moraes as the flyweight champion. Once the smoke cleared, &#8220;Triple C&#8221; added the bantamweight gold to his mantle. After the fight, Cejudo <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/cruz-faber-and-garbrandt-respond-to-callout-from-henry-cejudo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called out<\/a> the likes of Faber, Dominick Cruz, and Cody Garbrandt.<\/p>\n<p>Faber has made it clear that <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/urijah-faber-believes-chances-of-henry-cejudo-title-fight-are-very-good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he&#8217;s willing to throw down with Cejudo<\/a> for the 135-pound championship, but he isn&#8217;t sure that the feeling is mutual. &#8220;The California Kid&#8221; explained why during an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/mymmanews.com\/urijah-faber-henry-cejudo-needs-to-heal-up-and-lets-do-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MyMMANews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Faber: &#039;Cejudo needs to heal up and let&#039;s do this!&#039;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VtDdEGd0ip8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m curious of Henry because he called me out, I answered with the fastest knockout of my career, call him back out and then it\u2019s crickets,\u201d Faber said. \u201cIs he backing down? I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on with the guy. Heal up and let\u2019s do this!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t expect Urijah Faber to hold out if he doesn&#8217;t get a bantamweight title shot, however.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am open to other things,\u201d Faber said. \u201cI\u2019m just curious what the guys want me to do. I had to come out and take a fight that didn\u2019t make a lot of sense to remind people, the new ESPN era, what\u2019s up. At this point, I feel like I need to take a fight that makes sense. I don\u2019t know who that will be, or when it will be, but I\u2019m staying prepped. I\u2019m staying ready and I\u2019m enjoying the new landscape of the mixed martial arts world, how things are growing, and I\u2019m ready for whatever.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Faber returned to the Octagon for the first time since Dec. 2016. He did battle with Ricky Simon in the co-main event of UFC Sacramento last month. 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