LOS ANGELES — It would have been easy for Henry Cejudo to gloat on Saturday night.
Cejudo, after all, had spent all of fight week leading up to UFC 227 as an afterthought in his UFC flyweight title fight with Demetrious Johnson. Sure, Cejudo had improved and would probably do better than he did the first time they fought, most conceded. But beyond that, Cejudo was simply considered DJ’s contender of the month, a road bump in the way of a potential bantamweight superfight, as both T.J. Dillashaw and Cody Garbrandt openly talked about fighting Johnson next.