Cejudo vs. Yadong Headlines UFC Seattle, Plus Dom Cruz Returns

The Pacific Northwest is getting a banger Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) card.

UFC is going back to Seattle, Washington, next month (Sat., Feb 22, 2024), and now the promotion has its main event as former UFC Bantamweight champion Henry Cejudo will collide with No. 8 ranked Song Yadong inside Climate Pledge Arena.
Twitter user @realkevink first reported the news.

In the co-main event of UFC Seattle, Hunter Campbell informed ESPN that former two-time UFC Bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz will return from a nearly three-year layoff to fight No. 9 ranked Rob Font.

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Cejudo (16-4) will put his return to Flyweight on hold as he looks to snap his two-fight losing streak. “Triple C” is coming off a unanimous decision loss to Merab Dvalishvili, in which he teased retirement again.

Yadong (21-8) has not competed since his loss to Petr Yan at UFC 299. He was rumored to fight Umar Nurmagomedov in the main event of UFC Tampa, but the fight never came to fruition.

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Cruz (24-4) could be retiring after his upcoming “one last dance” at UFC Seattle. “The Dominator” suffered his second-ever knockout loss in his last outing against Marlon Vera at UFC San Diego in 2022 (watch highlights).

For what it’s worth, Cruz was vying for a rematch with Cejudo, but unfortunately, the matchmakers didn’t listen.

With the addition of the main and co-main, here is UFC Seattle so far.

Henry Cejudo vs. Song Yadong

Dominick Cruz vs. Rob Font

Brendan Allen vs. Anthony Hernandez

Curtis Blaydes vs. Rizvan Kuniev

Edson Barboza vs. Steve Garcia

Macy Chiasson vs. Ketlen Vieira

Michael Chiesa vs. TBD

Ibo Aslan vs. Ion Cutelaba

Islam Dulatov vs. Adam Fugitt

Melsik Baghdasaryan vs. Jean Silva

Modestas Bukauskas vs. Raffael Cerqueira

Mansur Abdul-Malik vs. Antonio Trocoli

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