Henry "Triple C" Cejudo is chasing more gold. In what may be the oddest call-out to date, the UFC men's flyweight and bantamweight champion has challenged women's flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko to a match.
“So I’m out here enjoying my beautiful Sunday in beautiful Las Vegas, but my phone just keeps blowing up,” Cejudo said in a video he posted to social media.
“That somebody by the name of Valentina ‘Bullet’ Shevchenko is the most dominant champion in the world. And guess what? I get a little jelly, because you know what? She has gold, and I want that gold. Valentina Shevchenko, I have a message for you: I’m looking to become the first intergender world champion that this world has ever seen. I’m calling you out. You can be the next to bend the knee to ‘Triple C.'”
Cejudo's call out came just days after Shevchenko
successfully defended her title against Liz Carmouche at UFC Uruguay. It's also not the first time he's called out a woman fighter, as Cejudo caught many off guard when
he issued a similar challenge to women's champ-champ Amanda Nunes while appearing on TMZ Sports.
No one is certain if Cejudo is serious with these call outs, but that didn't stop Shevchenko from responding to him.
"Be careful what you wish because he is all gold hunter, but I can make it happen that hew ill lose all of his gold forever," she said while on Ariel Helwani's MMA Show.
Shevchenko admitted that even she doesn't know if Cejudo is serious, but in the end it doesn't really matter. There is no chance the UFC will allow a male and female to fight each other.