Tune Yadong scored the most important win of his MMA profession in opposition to Henry Cejudo at UFC Seattle, nevertheless it got here with a wholesome dose of controversy.
By means of greater than two-and-a-half rounds, Tune and Cejudo delivered an entertaining scrap that noticed the 2 bantamweight stars touchdown massive photographs on each other. Nevertheless, issues took a flip for the more severe with simply over a minute left within the third when Tune inadvertently poked ‘Triple C’ within the eye.
Replay confirmed that it was an particularly unhealthy eye poke that prompted Cejudo to take the complete 5 minutes of relaxation time earlier than resuming the battle. Cejudo stayed elusive via the rest of the spherical, clearly simply making an attempt to get again to his nook.
As soon as Cejudo made it to his stool, he instantly informed his nook that he couldn’t see out of his left eye and requested for the cageside doctor to come back in and test. With Cejudo explaining that he can’t see, referee Jason Herzog defined to each fighters that he would start the fourth spherical after which instantly convey it to a pause which might permit him to ship the five-round battle to the scorecards sooner than anticipated.
Technically, Herzog didn’t want to begin the fourth spherical. Regardless, the battle was known as off and we went to the scorecards which revealed Tune Yadong because the winner.
Official Consequence: Tune Yadong def. Henry Cejudo by way of technical resolution (29-28, 29-28, 30-27)
Apparently, if Cejudo had opted to bow out of the battle with time nonetheless left within the third spherical, the battle would have been dominated a no-contest. By ending the third spherical, that’s what allowed Herzog to go to the scorecards and hand ‘Triple C’ his third straight loss.
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