{"id":368161,"date":"2020-11-17T12:05:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T20:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=368161"},"modified":"2020-11-17T12:05:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T20:05:41","slug":"donald-cerrone-announces-return-to-lightweight-division-im-gonna-give-it-my-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/donald-cerrone-announces-return-to-lightweight-division-im-gonna-give-it-my-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Cerrone announces return to lightweight division: &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna give it my all&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Cerrone is putting the UFC welterweight division behind him and heading back to the lightweight division.<\/p>\n<p>Cerrone has spent the most recent chapter of his career competing in the 170-pound welterweight category. Despite a strong start in the division, however, he&#8217;s recently fallen on hard times, experiencing losses to Anthony Pettis and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/donald-cerrone-reveals-that-two-days-before-fighting-conor-mcgregor-at-ufc-246-he-realized-he-didnt-want-to-be-there\/\">Conor McGregor<\/a> and draw against Niko Price in his most recent welterweight fights.<\/p>\n<p>On the heels of these losses, Cerrone has decided to drop back to lightweight, where he&#8217;s experienced the biggest wins of his illustrious MMA career.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Donald Cowboy Cerrone&#039;s Last Run and Move Back To 155\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WW5Pl7vzFnw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone talking about I should slow down or I should stop. I want to retire when I want to retire. I don\u2019t care what everyone else will say,\u201d Cerrone said in a video on his YouTube channel (via <a href=\"https:\/\/themaclife.com\/featured-posts\/donald-cerrone-announces-return-lightweight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Mac Life<\/a>). \u201cRealistically I probably got a couple of years left, and that\u2019s probably four or five fights left in me. Who knows. I\u2019m gonna go back to \u201955 and make a run. Let\u2019s go.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s brutal, man, it\u2019s hard,&#8221; Cerrone added. &#8220;It\u2019s tough. It\u2019s a lot of dedication, it\u2019s a lot of teamwork. If I\u2019m gonna do it and make a run, I\u2019m gonna give it my all. I don\u2019t want to half-ass it. I want to bunker down. \u2026 It would suck to remember the last bits of my fight career when I\u2019m old and I\u2019m like, \u2018Man, I should have gave it a try. I should have ridden the wave and [not] slacked the last part of my career and regretted it. Just tighten it up, rock it, do it. If it doesn\u2019t work, it doesn\u2019t work but at least I tried.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s better than me saying, \u2018We just kept it at [170], I just kept snowmobiling and playing and screwing off and letting it just dwindle off,&#8221; Cerrone added. &#8220;I\u2019ll just buckle down, get serious and I only got a couple more years, so let\u2019s do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you think this is the right move for Donald Cerrone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Cerrone is putting the UFC welterweight division behind him and heading back to the lightweight division. Cerrone has spent the most recent chapter of his career competing in the 170-pound welterweight category. 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