Former UFC champion Henry Cejudo has called out social media stars Abdu Rozik and Hasbulla for a "handicap" two-on-one fight.
The ex-two-weight world champion has had a joking rivalry with the pair, particularly Rozik, since they shot to internet fame last year. Cejudo was the champion at flyweight, the UFC's lowest weight class, as well as bantamweight, and is known for being one of the shorter but most dangerous fighters in the UFC at 5'4".
And he has called for a fight with the social media celebrities, where both men would get a chance to fight him at once. He tweeted out a response to his podcast co-host The Schmo interviewing Rozik in London last week, where the Tajik star called him out for a fight yet again.
"Talk is cheap," Cejudo told Rozik in a tweet. "It's crazy how this guy is willing to call me out when he's halfway across the world, I'll tell you what, why don't we have a handicap match? Why don't we get Abdu and Hasbulla vs Triple C and I will punt them both like they're a pair of footballs."
Rozik had said to The Schmo that he would like to fight Cejudo, and punched the journalist in the face when he suggested that he would side with his co-host. "Henry, I'm ready to fight," Rozik said in the call-out video. "Why you no ready? I'm ready, let's go, here let's fight, I'm ready to fight. Why did Henry not come here [to London]? I'm ready to fight!"
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Cejudo, who calls himself Triple C due to his unique trait of having won an Olympic gold medal in wrestling before two UFC titles, has been angling for a fight with Hasbulla over the past year. Both Hasbulla and Rozik have Growth Hormone deficiencies that have kept them from growing past 3'4", and make them look younger than their adult ages.
But getting the pair to team up might prove difficult, as they are engaged in a bitter feud of their own. They were eyeing up a fight last year, and went viral when they held a press conference for the event with Russian MMA fighter Ashab Tamaev, but ultimately Hasbulla's family pulled him out of the possible bout.
"Yes some people want to organise it but they won't be able to," Hasbulla said of the potential fight last year. "Because it is too expensive and not too many people will be able to pay for it. And I don't want the fight at the moment, no we haven't discussed it and Dana White didn't discuss it. Abdu Rozik he is a bum and he is a singer. This fight doesn't make sense."