The former two-division UFC champion Henry Cejudo will return to the cage in February in a bid to arrest his two-fight slump since he returned to the organisation following a three-year hiatus in 2023.
Cejudo, 37, will fight the Team Alpha Male standout Song Yadong in a headline fight of the UFC’s return to Seattle, Washington on February 22 next, according to promotional material released by the fight league.
The fight will be Cejudo’s first since he was defeated by current 135-pound champion Merab Dvalishvili in February of last year — a fight which came after the Olympic gold medal winner’s UFC return the previous May in which he was defeated by split decision by then-champ Aljamain Sterling.
Song, meanwhile, was unsuccessful in his most recent fight against Petr Yan but the 27-year-old Chinese has won five of his past seven bouts in the Octagon.
Elsewhere on the same card, another former bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz, 39, returns for the first time since an August 2022 loss to Marlon ‘Chito’ Vera where he will fight fellow veteran Rob Font, loser of four of his past six.
