The UFC is going to Brooklyn because of its very first card of 2019 and its very first card on ESPN after a seven-year deal with Fox Sports. The event is headlined by a champion vs champion fight as bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw is dropping down to the flyweight division to take on Henry”The Messenger” Cejudo. Dillashaw is looking to become the seventh fighter to acquire belts in two different weight classes and is now a -230 favorite with Cejudo coming back in +180.
Shark Bites
T.J. Dillashaw is averaging 5.38 significant strikes every second.
Henry Cejudo won gold at the 2008 Olympic Games. Five of T.J. Dillashaw’s past seven wins have come through knockout.
Odds Analysis
That can be Cejudo’s second straight fight as an underdog after he closed as a big +350 puppy contrary to Demetrious”Mighty Mouse” Johnson, arguably the pound-for-pound best at the moment. The former Olympian outwrestled DJ en route to some victory to become the second-ever flyweight champion.
But because he is the bigger man it makes sense to be preferred. This is the fifth time that the UFC has had two sitting winners endure toe-to-toe and the fighter that has made the weight course move is 3-1 in the past four fights, together with B.J. Penn’s loss to GSP in 2009 being the sole defeat. That having been said, Dillashaw is the first to drop down in weight to challenge for a second belt, as B.J. Penn, Conor McGregor, Daniel Cormier and Amanda Nunes all moved up in weight as they looked to secure two straps at precisely the same moment.
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