Former UFC bantamweight champion Henry Cejudo was in action on Friday, though not for any scheduled fight, or even gym spar.
Instead, a pajama-clad Cejudo wound up in action after a car full of teenagers veered off the road near his Phoenix-area home, and slammed into a neighbor’s house, breaking through the exterior wall. Luckily, no one was killed in the incident, but when at least one of the vehicle’s occupants assaulted the homeowner while attempting the flee the scene, Cejudo jumped into action.
Ceujdo was actually alongside his producer, Cageside Press alum Dylan Rush, when the incident transpired.
“I saw a group of teenagers maybe doing 80 miles per hour. I was just coming out with my producer Dylan Rush, we happened to see this car going about 80 miles per hour pretty much,” Cejudo recalled in video shot immediately following the incident, posted to his official Youtube channel. “We heard a [screech], next thing you know this dude’s going up a ramp, and they smashed into my neighbor’s yard.”
“The guy got out, the guy tried to leave, and he ended up assaulting the owner. I didn’t know if these guys had guns, and then once he hit my neighbor, I was like alright man.”
Henry Cejudo’s neighbor could be seen on video still bleeding from the head. As for Cejudo, he recounted that he “picked him [the suspect] up, dropped him, slapped him a little bit, then some of the neighbors took some clocks at him.”
A number of neighbors, who had come outside of their homes no doubt alerted by all the commotion, helped retrain the occupants of the vehicle, who were taken into custody by authorities.
