{"id":342434,"date":"2020-02-26T08:12:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T16:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=342434"},"modified":"2020-02-26T08:12:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T16:12:45","slug":"chael-sonnen-defends-henry-cejudo-vs-jose-aldo-booking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/chael-sonnen-defends-henry-cejudo-vs-jose-aldo-booking\/","title":{"rendered":"Chael Sonnen defends Henry Cejudo vs. Jose Aldo booking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next crack at UFC bantamweight champ Henry Cejudo will go to former UFC featherweight champ Jose Aldo. Unfortunately, this matchup is generating quite a bit of controversy, as Aldo lost his only fight in the bantamweight division, and is seen as less deserving of the shot than many of his rivals. Chael Sonnen doesn&#8217;t see the issue.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I have no problem with Henry Cejudo vs Jose Aldo...\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9bg99S1OIyU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m nothing short of surprised at the pushback Jose Aldo is getting for receiving a title shot against Henry Cejudo,&#8221; Sonnen said in a video posted to <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9bg99S1OIyU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sonnen continued, sharing his belief that many of this matchup&#8217;s naysayers \u2014 such as bantamweight contenders Aljamain Sterling and Petr Yan \u2014 are simply jealous of Jose Aldo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re going to have a hard time convincing me that you&#8217;re using logic,&#8221; Sonnen said. &#8220;I know you&#8217;re attempting to present your argument through logic \u2014 logic being that Jose Aldo has only been at 135 pounds one time, and that he has never won a fight. He&#8217;s 0-1. I understand that being the logic, but you&#8217;re having a hard time convincing me that that&#8217;s what you truly believe as much as that&#8217;s just the argument that you&#8217;ve chosen because of jealousy, because of some kind of envy for Jose Aldo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sonnen then argued that Cejudo, a former two-division champion who is widely credited with saving the UFC flyweight division, has earned the right to call his shots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look, Jose Aldo&#8217;s the greatest featherweight of all time,&#8221; Sonnen said. &#8220;10 years on top, never beaten. He did a really great job. By the way, Henry Cejudo wants to fight him. Henry&#8217;s opinion has to matter somewhere in here. We cannot punish for success. We cannot say &#8216;you&#8217;re the champion and therefor your opinions and your wants and needs don&#8217;t go out the window and you just fight the No. 1 guy.&#8217; That&#8217;s just a little bit of a silly argument. A guy that does some heavy lifting, like Henry, and became a champ-champ and saved an entire division, and this is the guy that he wants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jose Aldo will get his crack at Henry Cejudo at UFC 250 in Brazil this May.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this argument from Chael Sonnen?<\/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 2\/26\/2020.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next crack at UFC bantamweight champ Henry Cejudo will go to former UFC featherweight champ Jose Aldo. Unfortunately, this matchup is generating quite a bit of controversy, as Aldo lost his only fight in the bantamweight division, and is seen as less deserving of the shot than many of his rivals. 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