Henry Cejudo Leaves Out Fellow Ali Abdelaziz Client Khabib Nurmagomedov From His UFC GOAT List

Published 02/25/2022, 7:56 AM EST

Former UFC champion Henry Cejudo is a notorious personality in the MMA world. He is not hesitant about speaking his mind whenever he wants to and often makes headlines for his comments.

In his recent podcast show with MMA reporter ‘The Schmo’, Henry Cejudo named his top five UFC fighters of all time. It was surprising to see that the fighter didn’t include the former UFC champion, Khabib Nurmagomedov, in his top five ranks. This was due to the fact that both of them were clients of MMA manager Ali Abdelaziz.

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Henry Cejudo’s top five fighters were Jon Jones, Demetrious Johnson, Anderson Silva, Henry Cejudo, Georges St-Pierre.

The former double champion ranked himself above Georges St-Pierre, who is considered by many to be the greatest fighter of all time. He also gave his reasoning for the same.

Cejudo said, “I literally beat the best guys in the world. I beat three Hall of Famers in my last four fights, Demetrious Johnson, T.J. Dillashaw, and Dominick Cruz.”

“I used to think more of more of GSP. But in reality is, I still feel like he cherry-picked man. With all due respect to the legend, so I’m gonna have to put him at number five.”

Henry Cejudo reveals why he didn’t put Khabib Nurmagomedov on the list

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As the absence of ‘The Eagle‘ was noticeable, ‘The Schmo’ asked Henry Cejudo about it. In response, ‘The Messenger’ said, “I believe he’s top 10, because he only had 12 fights in the UFC like me. If he was to win a second belt and there were another title, then he would even be above me because he’d be undefeated.”

This is not the first time that Henry Cejudo has told the public his view on Khabib not being the ‘GOAT’. He said it in an interview with Helen Yee as well.

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Cejudo does not have any bad blood with the former UFC lightweight champion, but ‘The Messenger’ just doesn’t feel ‘The Eagle’ belongs on the list. In fact, ‘Triple C’ was a part of the broadcast team for Nurmagomedov’s recent Eagle FC event.

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Pranit Punjabi is a UFC author at EssentiallySports. A third-year psychology major, this Justin Gaethje fan merged his interest in psychology with his deep passion for MMA and was intrigued by this new angle to help him get closer to the action. Pranit aims to look through the violence and chaos, into what makes MMA truly beautiful, the deep and rich psychological aspect of the game.

Henry Cejudo Leaves Out Fellow Ali Abdelaziz Client Khabib Nurmagomedov From His UFC GOAT List

Henry Cejudo reveals why he didn’t put Khabib Nurmagomedov on the list

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