Henry Cejudo: It’s My Fault José Aldo is Fighting for the Belt

Oh, it's so exciting. First of all, we didn't even talk. Well, you got a pure Yann versus Jose Aldo for your title. Does it still feel like yours? I let it go, Joe. I let it go. Honestly, honestly, I let it go. They can all kill each other. That's how I feel. I'm so happy. I'm so satisfied, Joe. You look happy. You look happy. The point is like, what a division. Unless you cross me with something here. I don't know what you... No, it's all good, bro. It's all good. I'm really excited about that Jose Aldo, pure Yann fight. But it's fascinating to me that they decided to give the fight to Aldo, even though Marais won the decision. It has a real interesting choice, isn't it? Because although I agree with the decision, I think... or excuse me, I agree with Aldo. I think Aldo won that fight. I think it was a really close fight, but I thought Aldo won the fight. But it was close. It was really close. But the fact that the judges gave it to Marlin and then the UFC is like, nah, player. We're going to have Aldo fight Pio... And part of it is because Aldo is obviously a huge draw and one of the greatest of all time, particularly greatest featherweights of all time. Well, remember, I'm actually going to change your mind on that. It's actually, it's really my fault. It's your fault? Yeah, it's my fault that Jose Aldo was fighting for the belt because that's who I was originally supposed to fight with, Dominic. But this whole COVID thing happened. So Aldo was going to fight for the title, and then it's like, you can't do that to him. So the UFC, you know, they stuck to their word. Oh, that's interesting. Still though, Marlin. If Eddie was here, we could debate, man. That makes sense. That 100% makes sense. That makes sense. Listen, I'm happy for both fights. I would be happy if Marlin fought Pio to yawn for the title or be happy if Aldo fought him. I'd be happy if Marlin and Aldo fought again. Like, there's great fights in that division now that you've stepped down. Really? The people that I think that should fight for the belt would be Aljamay Sterling and Peter. I'm going to call him Peter, man. I ain't going to get that off that. It was Peter for a while. We were supposed to call him Peter. And then they said, no, it's Piotr. Piotr. Piotr. It's like Fedor. Fedor's real name's not Fedor. It's Fyodor. Yeah. That's so rude. We could have said Fyodor. Yeah, but even somebody like Peter Yama, like, how dangerous is he? Really? Yeah, he beat Uriah, but Uriah's been out for a minute. You know, besides Uriah, what's another big name that that dude has beaten? No. Well, clearly he's very good. There's no doubt about it. Whether or not he's at your level, you don't find out until he fights a guy like you or he fights a guy like Aldo. That's when we find out what's up. But we know he's really good. You know, the way he beat up Uriah, it's not just that he beat him. He beat him up. And, you know, Uriah's always going to be a tough out. He's a tough guy, man. He's a super skilled, super seasoned guy. Uriah's been around forever. You know, he's fought so many good guys, he knows how to survive. And to see Fyodor beat him up like that, it's like, wow. And he's fucking strong, man. He's fucking strong. Like, he's got that weirdo Russian strength, you know? Yeah, he is dangerous. He's got power, he throws knees, he throws off the clinch. Yep, yep, dangerous. He's dangerous. He's technical. When I see a guy like that, it's like, he's technical and he has malice. And when someone's technical and they have malice, it's like, that's what I have, you know what I'm saying? And I can recognize that. Yeah, yeah, malice is a good way of putting it, what Mike Tyson would call bad intentions. Yeah, yeah, he's got it.