The UFC is going to Brooklyn for its very first card 2019 and its very first card on ESPN after a seven-year agreement with Fox Sports. The event is headlined by a winner vs winner fight as bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw is falling down to the flyweight division to take on Henry”The Messenger” Cejudo. Dillashaw is looking to become the seventh fighter to win belts in two different weight classes and is now a -230 favored with Cejudo coming back in +180.
Shark Bites
T.J. Dillashaw is averaging 5.38 significant strikes per minute.
Henry Cejudo won gold in wrestling at the 2008 Olympic Games.
Five of T.J. Dillashaw’s last seven wins have come through knockout.
Cejudo vs Dillashaw Fight Center
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Odds Analysis
This can be Cejudo’s second right fight as an underdog after he shut as a large +350 dog contrary to Demetrious”Mighty Mouse” Johnson, arguably the pound-for-pound greatest in the moment. The former Olympian outwrestled DJ en route to a split-decision success to become the second-ever flyweight champion.
However, it makes sense for Dillashaw to be favored because he is the bigger man dropping down in weight. Here is the fifth time that the UFC has two sitting winners endure toe-to-toe along with the fighter who has made the weight class move is 3-1 in the previous four fights, with B.J. Penn’s loss to GSP in 2009 being the only defeat. That being said, Dillashaw is the first to drop down in weight to challenge for another belt, as B.J. Penn, Conor McGregor, Daniel Cormier and Amanda Nunes all moved up in weight since they looked to secure two straps at precisely the exact same time.

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