Tag: Henry Cejudo vs. TJ Dillashaw

TJ Dillashaw eyes another fight against UFC flyweight champion Henry Cejudo.

This comes after Cejudo finished the UFC bantamweight champion to successfully retain the UFC flyweight title in the headliner of UFC on ESPN+ 1. This event down on Saturday night (January 19, 2019) at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

The expectation is that Cejudo will move up a weight class in order to do an immediate rematch against Dillashaw to challenge for the bantamweight title.

It all comes back to the early stoppage, which is what many people thought happened. The finish saw Dillashaw being rocked twice and dropped before being finished on the ground.

After the fight, Dillashaw made his feelings known and he wasn’t happy about how it ended.

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“Sucks to have it stolen from you,” Dillashaw told MMAjunkie. “I worked my butt off. It would be nice to actually get the chance to show it. It’s a title fight. It’s a champ-vs.-champ fight, and you’re going to stop the fight like that? I’m in on a single leg. (The referee) said, ‘Hey, show me something.’ I said, ‘OK.’ I’m on a single leg in a scramble, (Cejudo) stops punching, he’s defending a single leg. And (the referee’s) going to stop the fight? It’s just ridiculous. It’s pretty pathetic that I have better knowledge (than the referee).”

“If I’m going to lose, I want to lose,” Dillashaw said. “I want to lose if I’m going to lose. Look, congratulations, Henry Cejudo. Awesome. Great job, man. But you did not win. You did not win this fight. I am happy to accept defeat, but I did not lose. I was more rocked in the first Cody (Garbrandt) fight than that fight. I got clipped, hardly clipped behind the ear, and a grown man is going to be shoving you. Of course you’re going to be in a scramble. A grown-ass man is on top of me.”

It appears that Dillashaw will be able to write his wrong and how this fight ended. But, at the end of the day, he trained hard for this superfight and is fired up to get back inside of the Octagon.

“As you can tell, I’m a little frustrated. This (expletive) needs to happen again, at flyweight. This is bullshit. I worked my ass off 12 weeks to get here. To have it stolen from me in 30 seconds. You guys can see the fire. I’ll (expletive) fight tomorrow.”

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TJ Dillashaw explains why he doesn’t consider Henry Cejudo a dangerous fighter while doing a recent media scrum to promote their upcoming fight. The UFC bantamweight champion will fight Cejudo for the UFC flyweight title in the main event of the UFC on ESPN+1 event. Dillashaw will move down 10 pounds to challenge for Cejudo’s 125-pound belt.

On Monday at a media day in Los Angeles, Dillashaw stated that although Cejudo has showed great strides in his performance as of late, he doesn’t consider him a threat. This may prove to be a costly mistake in his mindset come fight night.

“He’s gotten a lot better,” Dillashaw told MMAFighting. “I was impressed with his growth. But he’s not like a dangerous fighter, he’s a little more of a boring fighter. But he’s smart, right? I think that’s where I’m going to pick him apart is that I’m going to be able to put it all together.”

Finish

“I can’t tell you exactly which way I’m going to finish him, but my pressure is going to be too much,” Dillashaw said. “I’m too well-rounded that I can take the fight anywhere, and he’s going to want to fold. He doesn’t have that competitive edge that I have.”

UFC on ESPN+ 1 (also known as UFC Fight Night 143) is set to take place on Saturday, January 19, 2019 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

For months, Dillashaw was calling out then-flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson for a superfight. Once Cejudo beat Johnson to win the title, TJ changed his focus to Cejudo. Despite this, he still can’t live up to the challenge that Johnson would bring in the eyes of Dillashaw.

“I was chasing [Johnson] down, he had that No. 1 pound-for-pound spot,” Dillashaw said. “So that meant maybe just a little bit more. But Cejudo is a great athlete, he went out there with a great plan. I’m not too sure that I can say that he won that one decisively over Demetrious, but he showed some great improvements. Really its just me being dominant over everyone I fight and it’s going to be exciting but I was chasing Demetrious, yes.”

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TJ Dillashaw makes some interesting comments heading into his next fight that could put him into the history books. He is slated to challenge Henry Cejudo for the UFC flyweight title at UFC on ESPN+1. Dillashaw will move down 10 pounds to challenge for Cejudo’s 125-pound belt.

While doing a recent interview, the UFC bantamweight champion took some shots at Cejudo over having weight-cutting issues several times earlier in his career.

“He’s missed weight,” Dillashaw said to MMAFighting. “He’s had trouble making weight. He’s had trouble making 125s. I bet I make weight easier than he does. Because of how professional I am. Yeah, of course I’m gonna be skinny,” Dillashaw said. “I’m going down a weight class. If I were to wait and crash all the weight the last night, I’d look better throughout camp. I’d look more normal. Then I would have to crash at the end and my performance wouldn’t be as good. So I’m more worried about the performance.”

UFC on ESPN+ 1 (also known as UFC Fight Night 143) is set to take place on Saturday, January 19, 2019 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Confident

In fact, Dillashaw thinks that this will be a super easy weight cut despite the changes being made to the date of this fight. Originally, it was supposed to take place on January 26 at the now-canceled UFC 233 PPV event. The fight was moved up a week. That’s not a problem for the champion due to his strict diet.

“Luckily, at that point in time when I did get the phone call, I was ahead of schedule,” Dillashaw said. “I still had to call and check with my coach (Calavitta), like, ‘Hey, is this something we should do?’ He’s a calculus teacher. He’s very scientific with how he does everything.”

“It’s not an issue,” Dillashaw said. “Actually, I always knew I could make the weight, but I’m surprised at how good I feel trying to get down there. But it’s because of how professional I took it. I mean, the weight cut is already over. Now it’s just some tricks to get the last weight dropped now. The weight cut is over. My diet has been strict, my workout routine has been strict. I’m lean and everyone thinks I’m lying, but I’m stronger now than I was last camp.”

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