Henry Cejudo's evening at his Phoenix home took an unexpected turn when a speeding vehicle, estimated at 80-100 mph, crashed into a neighbor's house.
As the driver attempted to flee and passengers followed, Cejudo and the homeowner intervened.
Cejudo, a former two-division UFC champion, personally detained and restrained one of the people until law enforcement arrived.
You can see inside this room, if someone was standing in there, they would be dead. All these kids are lucky to be alive,” Cejudo said in a statement shared with MMA Junkie. “Once they got out I told them, ‘Hey, you guys aren’t going nowhere.’ The owner of this house tried to stop them and said you need to be held accountable. One of them ended up (punching) my neighbor, and that’s when I had to step in.
“Pretty much all my neighbours came in to fight the situation. I ended up lifting him, dropping him, slapped him around a little bit and just pretty much controlled him. If it was a couple hours earlier, someone would be seriously injured,” Cejudo said.
In his last fight, Cejudo faced Song Yadong in the main event of UFC Seattle on February 22. It ended when "Triple C" couldn't continue after being poked in the eye. Song won the fight by technical decision after the bout was stopped at the beginning of the fourth round.