{"id":2219,"date":"2023-10-05T00:05:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T23:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2023-10-05T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T21:21:00","slug":"cedric-doumbe-wants-to-face-ufc-legends-before-entering-the-pfl-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/cedric-doumbe-wants-to-face-ufc-legends-before-entering-the-pfl-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"C\u00e9dric Doumb\u00e9 wants to face UFC legends before entering the PFL tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 id=\"heading\" class=\"title\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Cedric Doumbe mocks UFC for not signing him, calls PFL &#8216;The Future&#8217; after spectacular Paris debut<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cedric Doumbe has seemingly mocked the UFC for failing to sign him. Additionally, he suggested that the PFL is the future. The Cameroon-born French fighter is a former two-time Glory welterweight champion, who retired from kickboxing in late 2021 and transitioned to MMA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">C\u00e9dric Doumb\u00e9 still wants to fight before officially entering the 1 million PFL tournament, UFC alumni are sure of his short list.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We can&#8217;t stop C\u00e9dric Doumb\u00e9! After knocking out Jordan Z\u00e9bo in the space of nine seconds during PFL Paris, &#8216;Doumced&#8217; wants to go even further at the end of the year 2023. Doumb\u00e9 has continued to be invited on TV sets and radio waves since his victory, and this Monday, he revealed his salary during an interview on France Inter by L\u00e9a Salam\u00e9 before being invited on the set of Ariel Helwani&#8217;s MMA Hour. It was on this same show that the multiple Kick-Boxing world champion made an astonishing revelation about his future.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_79809\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SSpWyk-V1is?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>C\u00e9dric Doumb\u00e9 vs UFC legends<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ariel Helwani is known for being one of the best combat sports journalists. The latter presents a program known throughout the world in which he invites the biggest personalities in combat, including C\u00e9dric Doumb\u00e9. During this interview, Ariel asked what the future was for Doumb\u00e9 and if we would see him fight again in 2023 and C\u00e9dric&#8217;s answer surprised more than one:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_19416\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8zMtVZZM09Q?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI don\u2019t know, but I will ask the PFL for big names like Masvidal, Pettis or Nate Diaz! \u00bb<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just that ! Three of the greatest legends to ever step inside the octagon of the largest organization in mixed martial arts. It seems that the call of \u2018The Best\u2019 has been heard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indeed, the former UFC lightweight champion responded to the call of the new French MMA superstar with this comment:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe biggest fight in PFL history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To know if the PFL will want its new golden goose to fight before the tournament, and that is less certain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cedric Doumbe mocks UFC for not signing him, calls PFL &#8216;The Future&#8217; after spectacular Paris debut Cedric Doumbe has seemingly mocked the UFC for failing to sign him. Additionally, he suggested that the PFL is the future. The Cameroon-born French fighter is a former two-time Glory welterweight champion, who retired from kickboxing in late 2021 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,21,47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pfl-mma","8":"category-ufc-news","9":"category-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2221,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions\/2221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}