Henry Cejudo didn’t take kindly to Sean O’Malley downplaying one of many greatest accomplishments of his athletic profession.
These days, Cejudo could also be identified by MMA followers because the ‘King of Cringe,’ however at one time, he was well-respected in the neighborhood as not only a former two-division UFC world champion, however as an Olympic gold medalist. ‘Triple C’ topped the rostrum on the 2008 Summer season Video games in Beijing whereas competing within the 55kg freestyle wrestling division. On the time, he was the youngest American to win a gold medal in wrestling historical past.
In a clip on his YouTube channel, O’Malley was attempting onerous to persuade anybody keen to hear that he ought to have received his UFC 306 conflict in opposition to Merab Dvalishvili. Whereas making his case, O’Malley claims to have stuffed extra takedowns in opposition to ‘The Machine’ than Cejudo did throughout his struggle with the Georgian earlier this yr and described ‘Triple C’ as a man who was a “bronze medalist again in ’08 or no matter.”
Henry Cejudo goes after ‘Sugar’ in heated response
It didn’t take lengthy for Cejudo to get wind of O’Malley’s comment and snap again on the former bantamweight king on social media.
“The one factor you ever received the gold in is being the worlds greatest Cuck,” Cejudo wrote in response to O’Malley on X. “You’re so in denial it is best to transfer to Egypt. They need to take a few of Diddy’s child oil and put it in your dry vagina.”
Might all this be resulting in a possible showdown between Cejudo and O’Malley? Maybe, however ‘Triple C’ will wait some time if that’s his angle.
Following the decisive determination loss to Dvalishvili at Sphere in Las Vegas, ‘Sugar’ revealed that he suffered a torn labrum 10 weeks forward of the struggle. On October 3, O’Malley will endure surgical procedure to restore the difficulty and is anticipated to be on the shelf for the following 6-8 months.
After retiring as a two-division champion in 2020, Cejudo returned to motion in Might 2023 for a conflict with then-bantamweight titleholder Aljamain Sterling at UFC 288. ‘Triple C’ got here up quick, shedding on two of the three decide’s scorecards.
He adopted up that loss with a way more decisive defeat by the hands of recent 135-pound champion Merab Dvalishvili 9 months later.