{"id":336065,"date":"2019-12-20T15:59:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T23:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=336065"},"modified":"2019-12-20T15:59:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T23:59:15","slug":"pedro-munhoz-glad-henry-cejudo-decided-to-relinquish-ufc-flyweight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/pedro-munhoz-glad-henry-cejudo-decided-to-relinquish-ufc-flyweight-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Munhoz glad Henry Cejudo decided to relinquish UFC Flyweight title"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pedro Munhoz is happy that flyweights can get back to business now that Henry Cejudo has relinquished his belt.<\/p>\n

“Triple C’s” “champ champ” days are no more, as yesterday it was announced that Cejudo was stripped off the 125lbs belt<\/a>. According to the former Olympic wrestler, it was his own choice to relinquish the belt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not being stripped,\u201d Cejudo claimed. \u201cI am relinquishing my title. \u2026 \u2018Triple C\u2019 is relinquishing his title to these wannabe, so-called flyweight kingpins.<\/p>\n

“Being stripped is not what I\u2019m doing. I\u2019m relinquishing, and you can tell them all to bend the knee.\u201d<\/p>\n

It seems no flyweight fighters will be bending the knee to \u201cTriple C\u201d anytime soon. The number 6 ranked bantamweight, Pedro Munhoz believes that “The Messenger” stepping down was the right decision:<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand we get hurt, and things happen, but being hurt he\u2019s holding two belts,\u201d Munhoz said to MMA Junkie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand he\u2019s hurt, there\u2019s nothing we can do about it, but I\u2019m glad they made that decision (to relinquish) and let the flyweights do their thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now the Olympic gold medallist will be focusing all his efforts on the bantamweight division. Munhoz noticed that the champion’s recent fight callout’s don’t align with the division’s rankings. Following Jose Aldo’s closely contested loss to Marlon Moraes at UFC 245, Cejudo subsequently called for a fight against the MMA veteran. Munhoz was left confused by the callout:<\/p>\n

\u201cCejudo is the bantamweight champion, and it looks like he wants to fight Jose Aldo,\u201d Munhoz said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s the reason why I called out Jose Aldo, because it made no sense him being No. 9 in the rankings and then fighting for the title after losing his most recent fight (against Marlon Moraes at UFC 245), so you know, it\u2019s something that\u2019s part of the politics that I\u2019m not aware of.”<\/p>\n

Munhoz hasn’t fought since his June 2019 loss to Aljamain Sterling. However, he intends on returning to the Octagon in 2020 to fight a top-five ranked opponent. Meanwhile, Henry Cejudo has the whole bantamweight division hot on his heels for a shot at the title. Who would you like to see The Messenger face next? Sound off in the comments below at Penn nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pedro Munhoz is happy that flyweights can get back to business now that Henry Cejudo has relinquished his belt. “Triple C’s” “champ champ” days are no more, as yesterday it was announced that Cejudo was stripped off the 125lbs belt. According to the former Olympic wrestler, it was his own choice to relinquish the belt. 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