The UFC is heading to Brooklyn for its very first card of 2019 and its first card ESPN following 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 per minute.
Henry Cejudo won gold . Five of T.J. Dillashaw’s past seven wins have come through knockout.
Odds Analysis
This is Cejudo’s second right fight as an underdog after he shut as a big +350 dog against Demetrious”Mighty Mouse” Johnson, arguably the pound-for-pound best at the moment. The former Olympian outwrestled en route to some split-decision victory to become the second-ever flyweight champion.
However, because he is the man it makes sense to be favored. Here is the fifth time that the UFC has two sitting champions stand toe-to-toe along with the fighter that has made the weight course move is 3-1 in the past four fights, with B.J. Penn’s reduction to GSP in 2009 function as the only defeat. That having been said, Dillashaw is the first to drop down in weight to battle for another belt, as B.J. Penn, Conor McGregor, Daniel Cormier and Amanda Nunes all moved up in weight as they appeared to secure two straps at the exact same moment.
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