Jesse Holland is among the longest-tenured media professionals in the combat sports news space, covering MMA, professional wrestling and boxing on a full-time basis since early 2004.

Former UFC bantamweight champion, Henry Cejudo, got a face full of fingers during his Yadong Song main event last weekend in Seattle, which temporarily blinded "Triple C" and forced a technical decision that ended in favor of "The Kung Fu Kid."

UFC CEO, Dana White, has no plans in booking a rematch to secure a more definitive conclusion, though it sounds like Cejudo would be just as happy to score an end-of-year showdown opposite fellow ex-champion, Petr "No Mercy" Yan.

Assuming Cejudo remains in good standing with UFC.

"I would love to get Petr Yan if we don't run it back with Song," Cejudo told Believe You Me with Michael Bisping. "I would love to get Yan, but I don't know where the UFC [stands]. They're probably pissed at me. Like, Dana probably thinks I b*tched out, and so does Hunter [Campbell]. Like, they probably all think I b*tched out. I mean, I'll be happy to have one eye and raise [my kids] but sh*t, it's better to have two than one, you know?"

Eye pokes have permanently distorted the vision of this longtime lightweight.

"So, I don't know where I stand with the UFC in that sense because that was the main event," Cejudo continued. "I'm at peace, dude because I know who I am. I know what I've done. I just hope that the UFC could give me Song [rematch] or Yan. I'm thinking, I want to leave the sport unscathed, and I would like to just fight one more time, bro, and I'm f**king out, dude. Like, that's it."

Cejudo already annoyed White and Co. once before.

The 38 year-old Cejudo has yet to win a fight after coming out of retirement back in early 2023 and appears to be headed back to the sidelines after one more bout. Whether or not the promotion affords "Triple C" valuable real estate on an upcoming pay-per-view (PPV) card or relegates the Olympian to a "Fight Night" lineup remains to be seen.