Former two-division champ Henry Cejudo returns for massive fight at UFC 298

Former UFC champ Henry Cejudo returns to action. Photo via Instagram (@henry_cejudo)

Former two-division champion Henry ”Tripe C” Cejudo will return to UFC action in February next year At UFC 298 he will take on No. 2 ranked Merab Dvalishvili.

The fight will quite possibly serve as a potential title eliminator in the stacked bantamweight division. Cejud announced the fight Sunday on his YouTube channel.

Dvalishvili rides a nine-fight winning streak that dates back to April 2018. During the past five years he defeated top fighters like Petr Yan, Jose Aldo and Marlon Moraes.

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Henry Cejudo is coming of a loss

Cejudo is coming off a title fight loss to then-champ Aljamain Sterling at UFC 288 in May. The fight was his first in  three years after retering on May 9, 2020.

UFC 298 will take place at place at Honda Center in Anaheim, California. The card will be headlined by a featherweight title fight between reigning champion Alexander Volkanovski and rising star Ilia Topuria.

• Featherweight title bout: Alexander Volkanovski vs. Ilia Topuria
• Bantamweight bout: Henry Cejudo vs. Merab Dvalishvili
• Welterweight bout: Danny Barlow vs. Yusaku Kinoshita
• Light heavyweight bout: Zhang Mingyang vs. Brendson Ribeiro
• Heavyweight bout: Marcos Rogerio vs. Justin Tafa
• Women’s flyweight bout: Andrea Lee vs. Miranda Maverick

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