“This is the last run. I’m making this final push, this last hurrah, and I just turned 38,” are the words of Henry Cejudo as he prepares to face Song Yadong at UFC Seattle. Lately, the former dual-weight champion has struggled to find his previous form, as retirement may have hit him harder than expected. After two disappointing back-to-back losses to former bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling and current champ Merab Dvalishvili, Cejudo is stepping back into the Octagon with the intent to win.

A question that’s been on the minds of fans: Who are Henry Cejudo’s teammates? Well, ahead of his highly anticipated clash against the Chinese fighter, let’s take a look at ‘Triple C’s team, his coaches, and his teammates.

Meet Eric Albarracin, Henry Cejudo’s coach

With a record of producing champions, Eric Albarracin is a highly respected MMA coach as well as a former freestyle wrestler with a storied background. He competed at the highest level at the peak of his career, securing silver medals in the Pan American Championships. Albarracin’s military background—his experience as a U.S. Army captain has helped him formulate many modern MMA techniques that have been immensely helpful for his fighters.

As a coach, Eric Albarracin has played a key role in kickstarting the career of many amazing fighters who were under his tutelage. UFC champs like Henry Cejudo and Deiveson Figueiredo have fought under his command. That’s not all, as he has been a monumental part of Patricio ‘Pitbull’ Freire’s as well as Paulo Costa’s fighting career. He has also played a key role in the careers of UFC stars like Zhang Weili, Jiří Prochazka, and even Jon Jones. As of 2025, the coach trains people at Pitbull Bros. Gym in Arizona. Now that we know about Cejudo’s coach, let us have a look at his gym and teammates.

Cejudo’s gym and teammates

The Olympic gold medalist and two-division champion trains at the Fight Ready MMA in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Gym is a den for world-class fighters. Fight Ready MMA has attracted many top-tier talents from the UFC. It must be noted that UFC heavyweight champion, Jon Jones also trained under the gym for a brief moment of his career.

And beyond high-profile fighters such as Jon Jones, Fight Ready MMA has its fair share of stars who train under the same roof. Some of the names who currently train in the famed gym are Leandro Higo, Henry Corrales, Amir Albazi, Eryk Anders, Chan Sung Jung, and many more. This diverse roster has bolstered Fight Ready’s reputation as a premier training destination, continually evolving and attracting top-tier talent from around the globe. While Henry Cejudo trained alongside amazing talents, would you be surprised to hear he nearly fired his loyal coach?

Did ‘Triple C’ fire his coach?

Last year in February, when Henry Cejudo was prepping to cross paths against Merab Dvalishvili, he dropped a rather unsettling news. At the UFC countdown episode, ‘Triple C’ relieved his longtime coach, Eric Albarracin of his duties, shaking the MMA community as the star coach has been with Cejudo since the very beginning. The former dual weight champion was called out by the fans for unanimously leaving Albarracin’s coaching.

However, it turned out that both Cejudo and Albarracin pranked the MMA world by making things up. “Bill Belichick, Tom Brady. Phil Jackson, Michael Jordan. Come on, do you think they would ever break up? Come on, man.” Albarracin said while standing next to Cejudo at the fighter hotel in a video posted to Instagram. Henry Cejudo wrapped his hand around his coach’s neck and said, “Just so you guys know, this is the greatest combat coach of all time. This is an unbreakable bond.”

It was a prank, however, the coach, in his conversation with The MMA Hour, added that it was quite real, “That was real. That’s the thing, nobody understands when that was shot, so that was shot in early December. If you followed me on my Instagram, you would see that I’m in Brazil for the last two months with Paulo [Costa] and Patricio [‘Pitbull’ Freire], and building the Broadstreet House down there, bringing international fighters in and building the next generation of fighters. So that was real. It was real.”

Was it real or was it just a facade? We’ll probably find out at UFC Seattle. One thing is for certain, a possible defeat for Henry Cejudo at UFC Seattle might mean retirement turn him. Given that, do you think he’ll pull off the victory? What are your thoughts on ‘Triple C’ and his team? State your thoughts in the comments below.