If Henry Cejudo stayed at Flyweight after beating Dillashaw, would he have an 8-fight winning streak as champion?

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Just remember this version of Cejudo was from 2019, not the version that took a long retirement break and came back with ring rust at Bantamweight.

This order is based on inevitable title defense matchups for the Flyweight belt at the time, not rankings.

1) Dillashaw - 1st title defense

2) Benavidez rematch

3) Figueiredo

4) Alex Perez

5) Moreno

6) Pantoja

7) Kai Kara-France

8) Steve Erceg
 
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Cejudo gets caught trying to clown Benavidez and knocked out, breaks his leg in the trilogy off a check.

Takes a year to heal, comes back for 6 fight losing streak before retiring.
 
No

This fight was sort of pointless

Neither of them fought at 125 again. TJ was on deaths door making it and he got KOed quickly maybe because. Henry went on to fight for BW

For "saving the division" it was a really pointless fight that would need a third person to even continue 125 reigns. Neither could return imo. It was also a controversial stoppage in some people's eyes. And the first ME of ESPN. Just as fucking weird as the first ME for Fox (JDS vs Cain)

Let's hope Gaethje and Pimblett is a good fight...
 
Cejudo's title reigns, both of them are kinda bs.

Arguably loses to MM to win the title
Early stoppage against Dillashaw who was a walking corpse
Wins BW title against a guy who wasn't champ
Defends BW title against a guy who was arguably not even a top10 BW lol
 
Retired as champion in his prime... and returned way past his prime to go on his own Ferguson / Penn losing streak...
 
That Dillashaw fight was an early stoppage. I wanted to see more, I also think T.J could have won.
 
1) Dillashaw - 1st title defense
2) Benavidez rematch
4) Alex Perez
7) Kai Kara-France
8) Steve Erceg

Dillashaw was dead on the scales at 125, at 135 I would favor TJ

Those are the more difficult fights. He would be pretty old at point 5 and especially 6.
So Pantoja could make it 50:50

3) Figueiredo
5) Moreno
6) Pantoja
 
TempleoftheDog said:
I don’t think Cejudo even beat DJ. And if DJ wasn’t traded, I would have favoured him in the trilogy fight.

So, no.
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Yea I also felt DJ won that fight, but it was close. I would have loved to see the 3rd fight between DJ and Cejudo, but Dana was determined to get rid of DJ at that point.
 
Cejudo was on a hell of a streak. Has to be one of the all time streaks. He really was a true FLW, at BW he got by with his skills, but really eventually he was going to hit a wall just being 5'4 with shakey striking.

Had he stayed at FLW, he would've got....
Figgy
Benevitez rematch
Perez
Moreno
Pantoja

and I doubt he would've still remained champ after that. Think Prime Figgy would've been a tough matchup, he'd have to grind it out to pull it off. Really wish we got to see that. Probably could've got by everyone including Pantoja.
 
I would favor Figgy against him, but I could see him beating the rest.
 
He coulda racked up a few more. Going off memory, I do believe Joe B and Figgy would have been tougher matches in that time period than Perez and Moreno. That’d still be a hell of a run. He was 33, so another 2-3 years at the elite level isn’t unheard of at FLW. Pants is 35 and was still looking amazing until very recently.
 
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