The 2008 Olympic freestyle wrestling gold medalist and current Ufc Flw champion Henry Cejudo entered this fight with a professional mma record of 14-2-0 (43% ko/tko victory rate – he has never won via submission) and he is ranked as the No.1 flyweight in the world. He lost two consecutive bouts in 2016, against Demetrious Johnson in their first bout (Johnson vs Cejudo I) and with Joseph Benavidez (via split decision, Benavidez vs Cejudo), but then he has won four fights taking revenge on Johnson in 2018 (Demetrious Johnson vs Henry Cejudo 2) and beating TJ Dillashaw in 2019 (Henry Cejudo vs TJ Dillashaw).
His opponent, the black belt in Bjj and former Wsof Bw champ Marlon Moraes, has an official record of 22-5-1 (73% finishing rate) and he entered as the No.1 bantamweight. He lost the first bout against Raphael Assuncao in 2017 (Moraes vs Assuncao) but then he has also won four fights defeating Jimmie Rivera (Jimmie Rivera vs Marlon Moraes) and taking revenge on Assuncao in his last two (Raphael Assuncao vs Marlon Moraes 2). Cejudo vs Moraes, main event of Ufc 238, is valid for the vacant Ufc bantamweight title. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Event: UFC 238: Cejudo vs. Moraes
Date: 2019-06-08
Where: United Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Division: bantamweight (135 lbs, 61 kg)
Title: vacant UFC Bantamweight Championship
UFC 238 fight card (main fights):
Henry Cejudo vs Marlon Moraes
Valentina Shevchenko vs Jessica Eye
Tony Ferguson vs Donald Cerrone
Petr Yan vs Jimmie Rivera
Tai Tuivasa vs Blagoy Ivanov
Aljamain Sterling vs Pedro Munhoz
Ricardo Lamas vs Calvin Kattar
Moraes’s next fight: Marlon Moraes vs Jose Aldo
Cejudo’s next fight: Henry Cejudo vs Dominick Cruz
Cejudo vs Moraes Fight Video:
(Free embeddable video hosted on Youtube and not uploaded by AllTheBestFights)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nb7ErUS080
Official video
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