An Olympic gold medal in wrestling. The UFC flyweight title.
Those are two reasons why Henry Cejudo is widely regarded as one of the greatest combat sports athletes of all time. But it took one more Herculean feat to convince Dana White that Cejudo’s reign at the top isn’t ending anytime soon.
The UFC president spoke glowingly of Cejudo at the UFC 238 post-fight presser after seeing Cejudo move up in weight to fight Marlon Moraes in Saturday’s main event in Chicago. It was Cejudo who would triumph in the third round via TKO over an exhausted Moraes, a result that gave Cejudo the vacant bantamweight championship and membership to an exclusive club of fighters who have held two UFC titles simultaneously (the others being Conor McGregor, Daniel Cormier, and Amanda Nunes).