Track Yadong, UFC Seattle ceremonial weigh-in Credit score: Gabriel Gonzalez/Cageside Press
Former UFC bantamweight champion Henry Cejudo seemed to get again to the title at UFC Seattle, however standing in his approach was Track Yadong on Saturday night time.
Cejudo (16-4) was coming two straight losses to present champ Merab Dvalishvili and former champ Aljamain Sterling respectively. The previous champ-champ wanted a decisive victory over Track Yadong to make a declare at a title shot.
Track (21-8-1) has slowly made his case to be a contender with wins over Marlon Moraes, and Ricky Simon however a win over Cejudo would cement him on the brief listing of contenders at 135.
Spherical 1 started with Cejudo using a high-pressure recreation plan making an attempt to get Track to the fence and shoot the takedown, however his opponent wouldn’t cooperate. Track fired off kicks and the very skilled Cejudo would let flurries off up high making an attempt to land.
Track would land brief counters on Cejudo as the previous champ would feint takedowns. Cejudo used the spherical to really feel out what his opponent would do with the feints. Cejudo lastly shot a single leg with lower than a minute within the spherical, however bailed and landed a left hook up high as an alternative.
Spherical ended with Cejudo making an attempt to land on Track on the fence.
Spherical 2 a extra measure strategy from Cejudo with not as many feints, however nonetheless not in a position to get in clear on Track. Each males threw loads of leg kicks. Track started to have some large reactions to the takedowns.
The remainder of the spherical was a hanging chess match between the fighters. Cejudo going for lots of calf kicks, however Track doing effectively to counter up high.
Spherical 3 the counter recreation continued with neither man making an attempt to over prolong their strikes. There was a break within the motion just below 3 minutes left within the spherical with a low blow from Track.
The hanging battle continued with a variety of pretend single leg grabs from Cejudo. He’d go for it for a second then bail and throw heavy up high, however missed most of them. Then one other foul from Track paused the motion.
After a 5-minute break the motion continued.
Cejudo nonetheless couldn’t see clearly from his left eye as Track went after him. Cejudo continued to wipe it throughout the remainder of the spherical.
Throughout the break Cejudo appeared to inform his nook “I can’t f*cking see” repeatedly.
Cejudo let the physician know he couldn’t see, informed Herzog, and the combat was waved.
Official end result: Track Yadong def. Henry Cejudo by way of Technical Determination (29-28×2, 30-27)
