Henry Cejudo
Vitals
Height, reach, and career background.
Record
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6 Dec 2025
LossDEC
UFC Fight Night: Cejudo vs. Song
22 Feb 2025
22 Feb 2025
Cejudo's Seattle main event ended awkwardly rather than conclusively.
Key moments
- An accidental eye poke at the beginning of round four stopped the fight.
- The judges returned scores of 29-28, 29-28 and 30-27.
- It gave Cejudo another loss in a main-event bantamweight matchup.
LossDEC
UFC 298
17 Feb 2024
17 Feb 2024
Dvalishvili gave Cejudo a hard version of the modern bantamweight pace problem: constant pressure, layered wrestling and almost no quiet moments to reset.
Key moments
- All three judges scored the bout 29-28 for Dvalishvili.
- Dvalishvili also completed five takedowns in the three-round fight.
- The loss closed Cejudo's first outing after the Sterling title-fight return.
LossDEC
Opponent: Aljamain SterlingsplitR5 5:00
UFC 288
6 May 2023
6 May 2023
Cejudo's first fight after a three-year retirement was competitive enough to keep the title conversation alive, but he still came up short against Sterling over 25 minutes.
Key moments
- Returned from nearly three years away to challenge for the UFC Bantamweight Championship.
- The judges scored the fight 47-48, 48-47 and 48-47 for Sterling.
- The bout went the full five rounds in Newark.
WinTKO
Opponent: Dominick Cruzknee and punchesR2 4:58
UFC 249
9 May 2020
9 May 2020
Cejudo's final fight of his championship peak was a strange, violent title defense against a returning Dominick Cruz.
Key moments
- Defended the UFC Bantamweight Championship in the UFC 249 co-main event.
- The official stoppage came at 4:58 of round two.
- Cejudo used damaging leg kicks before the finishing knee-and-punch sequence.
- He announced his retirement in the cage immediately after the win.
8 Jun 2019
19 Jan 2019
4 Aug 2018
2 Dec 2017
9 Sep 2017
3 Dec 2016
23 Apr 2016
21 Nov 2015
13 Jun 2015
14 Mar 2015
13 Dec 2014
31 Jan 2014
11 Oct 2013
18 May 2013
19 Apr 2013
24 Mar 2013
2 Mar 2013
The Read
Style, strengths, and defining traits.
Cejudo's entire MMA case starts with the same tension: Olympic-level wrestling discipline layered over a game that became more damaging and more comfortable in striking exchanges as his title run matured.
The resume is historically unusual even before the UFC belts enter the picture. Cejudo became an Olympic gold medalist, then a UFC flyweight and bantamweight champion, and the best wins on the sheet still hold up: Demetrious Johnson, T. J. Dillashaw, Marlon Moraes and Dominick Cruz. The late comeback damaged the final record, but it did not erase the peak.