Henry Cejudo (16-2) earned a referee stoppage to beat Dominick Cruz (22-3) with just two seconds left in the second round to successfully defend his bantamweight title at UFC 249 from Jacksonville, Fla. In his post-fight interview with Joe Rogan, the 33-year-old Cruz announced his retirement from the sport, as he’s got “nothing left to prove.”

Cejudo opened the bout chopping away at Cruz, aiming to slow down his eccentric fighting style early. Cruz didn’t lose a step, but spent much of the first round feigning, reading and reacting. To open the second, Cruz began to piece together his movements and strikes, hitting low with kicks and finishing up top with quick jabs. While Cruz snapped a handful of shots, Cejudo stayed with the game plan and continued to snap leg kicks. Late in the round, a clash of heads opened a a gash on Cejudo. After a momentary break, Cejudo caught Cruz with a brutal knee and finished him with a ref stoppage with seconds left in the round.

In his first fight of 2020, Cejudo returned from shoulder surgery that derailed his stellar 2019 to join just Daniel Cormier has the only fighters to successfully defend their titles in multiple weight classes. Cejudo ends his career with one of the most impressive runs in the organization’s history. After joining the UFC as an Olympic gold medalist, he beat the legendary Demetrious Johnson, knocked out T.J. Dillashaw in his flyweight title defense and TKO’d Marlon Moraes to win the vacant bantamweight belt.

Cruz hadn’t competed in the UFC since he lost the bantamweight crown against Cody Garbrandt in late 2016. Injuries have kept him out of the Octagon as of late, but he was preparing for a return against a top contender, looking to earn his way back into a title fight. Instead, he slid ahead of other top contenders to face off with Cejudo. The future of the bantamweight division is now filled with uncertainty, but Cruz is expected to be heavily involved in the title picture.

Francis Ngannou (15-3) knocked out Jairzinho Rozenstruik (10-1) seconds into their fight at UFC 249 in Jacksonville, Fla., to earn the next title shot in the heavyweight division.

Rozenstruik opened slow with an inside leg kick before Ngannou unloaded with a flurry of shots, eventually landing with a left hook to put his opponent to sleep.

As Ngannou explained after the bout, he let his frustration boil over against Rozenstruik, having been overlooked for the next heavyweight title opportunity. Stipe Miocic is currently slated to finalize his trilogy with Daniel Cormier at some point this year. With the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, Miocic has been unable to train, pushing his eventual bout with Cormier down the road. Once that fight is out of the way, though, Dana White has confirmed Ngannou will be next in line for his second shot at UFC gold.

After losing his first title shot to Miocic in what was a career-altering loss in 2018, it was fair to question the future for Ngannou. He stumbled through a decision win over Derrick Lewis and had clearly lost his confidence. Since then, Ngannou has been on a tear, needing less than two minutes to knock out each of his last four opponents. Ngannou has now beaten top contenders Cain Velasquez, Junior dos Santos, and the formerly unbeaten Rozenstruik in his last three fights.

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The sports world is doing its best to plan for all circumstances when it comes to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. For Major League Baseball, any plan would be the start of a baseball season that simply hasn’t happened yet. MLB was put on pause during spring training in early March, and so as the pandemic has continued into late spring, the question isn’t how the season will finish, but how much of it will actually be able to take place.

On Saturday, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic detailed the league’s proposal for a safe return to play in empty venues save for essential staff. Rosenthal called it a “blueprint” to actually making a 2020 campaign happen and noted while nothing is set in stone, the league expects to make a season with between 70-80 games happen, with an expanded postseason to follow.

Some key points to the proposal: not every team feels it’s safe to play in their home stadium at this time, teams relocating entirely for a period of time is on the table, and payroll cuts are expected to be ironed out due to lack of gate revenue for fanless games. Perhaps most interesting: schedules will largely be “regionalized” so teams playing in close proximity play one another to fill out the schedule.

• A regular season beginning in early July and consisting of approximately 80 games. The number might not be exactly 80 – both 78 and 82 are possibilities.

The schedule would be regionalized: Teams would face opponents only from their own division and the same geographic division in the opposite league. An NL East club, for example, would face only teams from the NL East and AL East.

A 78-game schedule might look like this: Four three-game series against each division opponent, and two three-game series against each non-division opponents.

Rosenthal noted that even New York, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, could host games by early July. It’s a bold plan for MLB to attempt given the uncertainty around various parts of the country, and it would be a huge shift in the traditional schedule where baseball is largely still divided by two leagues and sparse interleague. Still, it’s better than the alternative, which is the reality that baseball as we expect it to be played in America is impossible to put on until the pandemic has subsided and a vaccine is available.