Sean O’Malley offers theory behind Henry Cejudo’s sudden retirement from MMA

Archie Blade | 08/06/2020
Sean O’Malley offers theory behind Henry Cejudo’s sudden retirement from MMA

Sean O’Malley offers theory behind Henry Cejudo’s sudden retirement from MMA. The Bantamweight champion retired immediately after UFC 249.

Henry Cejudo shocked the mixed martial arts world when he announced his sudden retirement from the sport after UFC 249. The decision left everyone surprised. However, upcoming bantamweight Sean O’Malley believes that Cejudo will come back.

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Cejudo successfully defended the UFC Bantamweight title against Dominick Cruz at UFC 249. Following his TKO win, Cejudo made the shocking decision to vacate the belt. O’Malley has now offered his explanation as to why he left.

Sean O’Malley offers theory behind Henry Cejudo’s sudden retirement from MMA

After the conclusion of UFC 250, O’Malley spoke to ESPN’s Brett Okamoto regarding Cejudo and his retirement.


“I think I have the reason that he retired. I don’t know that for sure, but that’s just what I heard,” O’Malley said.

“I don’t know if I’m disappointed that he retired. I don’t know if I’m on top, in my peak, I don’t know if I could retire. I almost feel like I’d rather lose than just retire then say, ‘I’m in the best in the world, I’m done.’

“I don’t know, who knows. I think he’ll be back. I think he just found his first girlfriend and he’s just kind of, he doesn’t know what to do. Because if you’ve never had a girlfriend before and then you have one and you’re like 30-something, I don’t know, they like, take over.”

Earlier in the night, O’Malley stunned everyone with a one punch knockout over Eddie Wineland to extend his unbeaten run to 12 games now. In just 1:54 seconds of the first round, he cleaned his opponent up with a clean right strike to the face.

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Archie Blade

Archie is a WWE and UFC Editor/Author at the SportsRush. Like most combat sports enthusiasts, his passion for watching people fight began with WWE when he witnessed a young Brock Lesnar massacre Hulk Hogan back in 2002. This very passion soon branched out to boxing and mixed martial arts. Over the years he fell in love with the theatrics that preceded the bell and the poetic carnage that followed after. Each bruise a story to tell, each wound a song of struggle, his greatest desire is to be there to witness it all. His favorite wrestler is Shawn Michaels and he believes that GSP is the greatest to ever step foot inside the octagon. Apart from wrestling, he is also fond of poetry and music.

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