{"id":352188,"date":"2020-06-04T08:25:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T15:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=352188"},"modified":"2021-10-30T18:56:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T01:56:58","slug":"cory-sandhagen-bids-farewell-to-annoying-henry-cejudo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/cory-sandhagen-bids-farewell-to-annoying-henry-cejudo\/","title":{"rendered":"Cory Sandhagen bids farewell to &#8220;annoying&#8221; Henry Cejudo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Streaking UFC bantamweight contender Cory Sandhagen is glad that Henry Cejudo, the division&#8217;s most recent champion, has retired and vacated the throne.<\/p>\n<p>Cejudo shocked viewers by announcing his retirement from MMA shortly after he defended the UFC bantamweight title with a second-round TKO of Dominick Cruz at UFC 249.<\/p>\n<p>Sandhagen says he never enjoyed Cejudo&#8217;s trash talk, and was put off by the former champion&#8217;s calls for fights with aging legends like Cruz and Jose Aldo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love that Henry left,\u201d Sandhagen told <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2020\/06\/cory-sandhagen-glad-annoying-henry-cejudo-retired-not-bothered-by-jose-aldo-vs-petr-yan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie <\/a>recently. \u201cI\u2019m pumped that Henry left. His personality was annoying to me. I know that it wasn\u2019t real, but it was annoying to me. I think his choices in Aldo and (Dominick) Cruz (as opponents) were also lame, but I see his argument, too. He wanted to sell pay-per-view buys and wanted to beat a couple of legends and take off. So I get it. But he was annoying and I\u2019m glad that he\u2019s gone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With Cejudo no longer on the bantamweight throne, the UFC has booked a fight between Petr Yan and Jose Aldo to coronate a new champion. Aldo is riding a loss to Marlon Moraes, so his receiving a title shot has been somewhat controversial, but Sandhagen doesn&#8217;t seem bothered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough they chose Yan vs. Aldo, I\u2019m still not stressing about it,&#8221; he sad. &#8220;I still think I\u2019m fighting for a belt at some point this year, whether it\u2019s fall or the end of the year or whatever. I\u2019m not stressing. I\u2019ve been doing really good and I\u2019ve been getting really good matches, so I\u2019m still comfortable. I\u2019m still OK with what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aldo is a huge name and I don\u2019t necessarily see it as it could be a terrible thing because whether Yan or Aldo win, whatever,\u201d Sandhagen said. \u201cAldo is a pretty huge name, and that also draws a lot of attention to the division. So either one of them, it doesn\u2019t matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sandhagen will return to the cage against Aljamain Sterling at UFC 250 this Saturday. The winner is expected to receive the next bantamweight title shot.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Cory Sandhagen is a future champion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Streaking UFC bantamweight contender Cory Sandhagen is glad that Henry Cejudo, the division&#8217;s most recent champion, has retired and vacated the throne. 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