The UFC is heading straight back into the Honda Center in Anaheim, California in late January for UFC 233 with current bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw falling down to take on current flyweight champion Henry”The Messenger” Cejudo in the primary event. Dillashaw seems to put an end to this flyweight division and he’s a -190 favorite with Cejudo coming straight back in +155.
Odds Analysis
This is the fourth time in Cejudo’s nine-fight career in the UFC that he has been an underdog and he’s only 1-2 in the previous few bouts. However, that one triumph came from arguably among the very best pound-for-pound fighters in UFC history in Demetrious Johnson in UFC 227. Meanwhile, Dillashaw was favored in five of the last six bits and is riding a four-fight winning series, including back-to-back successes over Cody Garbrandt, the first of that he was an underdog for. This is a classic grappler vs striker matchup, which tends to favor the grappler if history tells us anything, however it is Cejudo, the grappler, who’s the dog from the bout.
Slimming down Henry Cejudo vs T.J. Dillashaw
Dillashaw (-190) is a spectacular striker who has incredible hand speed and fantastic footwork. The 32-year-old averages 5.38 significant strikes per minute when absorbing just 2.94 considerable strikes per second, defending 66 percent of strikes against. It isn’t death by a million cuts by Dillashaw, as he will put one to sleep, together with half of his 16 professional wins coming through T/KO. Does the California native have excellent striking abilities, but he stuffs 86 percent of takedown efforts, forcing his rivals to stand and trade with him.
Cejudo (+155) is a elite-level wrestler who struck gold in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The Messenger has landed at least one takedown in eight of the nine bouts within the Octagon and has several takedowns in five of those bits. As is true with most wrestlers, Cejudo has outstanding cardio and is able to maintain a frenetic pace for the whole period of a full five-round bout. The California native has definitely improved his striking throughout his career which has been on full display when he knocked out Wilson Reis at UFC 215.
This may be the highest degree of talent colliding from the lower weight class branches. The matchmakers could not have asked for a better conflict of styles as you’ve got a striker that has been able to bully his rivals, carrying on an Olympic-level wrestler. Dillashaw are the larger man when the two input the Octagon, however, we have never seen him at 125 lbs and could cutting off that extra 10 pounds from 135 leave him depleted and not as powerful? Meanwhile, if Cejudo is not able to drag Dillashaw into the mat, is he able to endure the elite-level striking? Irrespective of the results, we’re in for a treat at UFC 233.
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