“You Are a Liar” – Jacked at 56, Mike Tyson’s Message of Fear to Former UFC Double Champion Henry Cejudo Before UFC 288 Goes Viral

2023 is the year of comebacks. This year will go down in history books for some highly anticipated returns. One of those returns is of Henry Cejudo. After giving fans some of the most memorable moments in his tenure at UFC, Cejudo decided to retire from professional fighting in 2020. However, Triple C could not stay out of the octagon for long. In 2022, he announced his return to professional fighting.

Later, it was announced with Henry Cejudo will step straight into a title fight against bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling. The fight takes place this weekend, at UFC 288. Taking on the champ after three years of inactivity is no easy battle. Therefore, Cejudo has been training and learning with the absolute beasts to prepare for his return fight. But one personality who had advice for him was Mike Tyson.

Mike Tyson teaches the lesson of fear to Henry Cejudo

A 7-month-old YouTube video posted by the channel ‘DEEP MMA & BOXING’ shows an interaction between Mike Tyson and Henry Cejudo. The video seems to be from Cejudo’s gym, probably after Cejudo’s training session. In the video, Tyson talks to ‘Triple C’ and teaches him an important lesson about fear. Even at 56 years of age, Tyson looks incredibly jacked and muscular in the video.

Tyson talks about how important it is for a fighter to have control over his fears. According to the boxing legend, every fighter has some amount of fear stepping into the fight. “It all comes down to fear, how you control your fear. If you go in there and say ‘I am not afraid’, you are a liar. We do a job that the world avoids. All their life, people avoid getting into a fight. We get in a fight and boom, we talk like it never happened, we never had a fight. That’s how we are programmed.”

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These lessons were taught to Tyson by his first coach, Cus D’Amato. D’Amato trained the ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson from his early teenage years up until D’Amato’s demise.

Henry Cejudo’s dominance in UFC

Cejudo made his UFC debut in 2014. Over the course of the next two years, ‘Triple C’ won 4 consecutive fights. This landed him a title shot against Demetrious Johnson at UFC 197. He lost the fight via a first-round TKO, and couldn’t even win his next fight against Joseph Benavidez.

However, these were the only losses for Cejudo. The Olympic gold medalist quickly got back to winning ways, challenged Johnson again, and defeated him. The victory against Johnson handed Cejudo the UFC flyweight title.

After defending his belt once, Cejudo entered the bantamweight division and won the bantamweight title by defeating Marlon Moraes. This achievement glorified Henry Cejudo’s name as one of the few double champs in UFC. Cejudo then defended his bantamweight title against Dominick Cruz. The 36-year-old fighter never lost his titles, as he vacated both his flyweight and bantamweight titles due to inactivity.

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Coming back to the present day, Cejudo faces Aljamain Sterling at UFC 288 to win the title he never lost. Fans are excited for the fight, and cannot wait for the return of ‘Triple C’.