Henry Cejudo would let Conor McGregor walk.
McGregor has one fight left on his UFC contract, and he recently said he plans to announce a bare-knuckle fight once it’s done. On his Pound 4 Pound podcast, the former two-division champion said the UFC should just cut him now.
At this point, he’s just f—ing trolling. I don’t believe anything that he’s saying. But he’s a draw, you know? Now it’s up to the UFC to say, ‘Hey, we’re going to pay you this much because you’re worth this much.’ I guarantee, I’m going to tell you right now, I can even see the UFC just letting him go based on what he got paid.
If I’m a businessman and I want to keep a lot of my money, and I like Conor, f— Conor. I would cut him. I swear to you I would, because if they’re going to give him 30 million and not have to give him 30 million particularly with that big-a– Paramount deal that they have and Paramount has to make their money, hey, just cut him. Let him be a free agent.
McGregor is 1-4 in the UFC since his 2017 boxing match with Floyd Mayweather. His return against Max Holloway at UFC 329 in July ended in 69 seconds when he suffered a leg injury. Cejudo said the numbers don’t add up anymore.
There’s no more pay-per-view model, and this dude hasn’t won a fight. Just the business aspect of it, just hear me out. Pretend I’m Dana White, you know what I’m doing? I’m saying he’s got one fight left, his last fight wasn’t even a fight. He lost again. Just let him leave with the loss in the UFC.
Cejudo also warned that a win could flip the leverage.
He has one fight left. Let’s say he does fight Justin Gaethje and somehow beats Justin Gaethje? Then the ball’s on his court. He can go off and fight a bunch of tomato cans and make a whole bunch of money elsewhere.
Still, Cejudo admitted McGregor remains a money-maker. UFC 329 had an announced $26 million gate, and he credited McGregor with building stars.
He’s a cash cow, I get it. I get it, and that dude, I’m going to say it, he’s made everybody that has a f—ing name. From Khabib Nurmagomedov to Dustin Poirier to Nate Diaz, everybody that fought Conor and that was able to beat Conor, he changed their lives, let’s be real.
