Cejudo on Dillashaw’s ‘fluke’ comment: ‘I’m a sore loser, too’
“It’s OK. It just lets you know how he’s feeling. It’s who he is. I’m a sore loser, too.”
Henry Cejudo hasn’t take much offense to any of T.J. Dillashaw’s post-fight comments.
‘The Messenger’ finished Dillashaw with a barrage of strikes in the first round of the UFC Fight Night 143 main event but, rather than gracefully accept defeat, Dillashaw has argued that the referee stopped the fight way too early believes it was a ‘bullsh-t’ stoppage.
The reigning bantamweight champ also went on to call Cejudo’s victory a ‘fluke’ but, rather than take offense, Cejudo has decided to take Dillashaw’s comment as a compliment.
Speaking to MMA Junkie in a recent interview, Cejudo admitted that he is also a sore loser.
“(Him call it a fluke is) actually kind of a compliment,” Cejudo said. “Now he’s saying that it really did happen. If you say it’s a fluke, it’s something that wasn’t supposed to happen but it happened. It’s OK. It just lets you know how he’s feeling. It’s who he is. I’m a sore loser, too. I don’t say it in the public. He’s just revealing it more to the public and that’s who he is. I don’t take offense to it, I really don’t.
“(The stoppage was) not my decision. It’s not my job. I was going to hurt him regardless. It wasn’t going to make it past that minute, I promise you. I’d put my house on it, I would put everything I own on it because he was hurt.”
As for what’s next, Cejudo is looking to move up to bantamweight to become the UFC’s next ‘champ-champ’. This, he feels, will catapult him to the top of the UFC’s official pound-for-pound rankings.
“If I go up it would have to be a title shot immediately,” Cejudo said. “I’ve got a belt at 125 and I can’t be fighting some No. 2 or 3 guy, with all due respect. I think there’s a lot of fights for me. I’m a chameleon. I fill into 135 very well too. I think I’ll be bigger than all of them. The size that I use and how I feel. At 125 there’s nobody in the world that can match my strength. Marlon Moraes, all those guys are on my hit-list too. I would love to fight those guys.
“I think taking out T.J., sometime in July or August. Taking that belt and then fighting possibly in December and to be, being the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world. Beating T.J. I would be the only guy with two belts, an Olympic gold medal. You would be crazy not calling me the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world. Just taking heads. Putting heads on a spike.”
Expect a rematch between Cejudo and Dillashaw to be announced in the coming weeks.