The UFC is heading to Brooklyn for its first card of 2019 and its first card ESPN after a seven-year deal with Fox Sports. The event is headlined by a winner vs winner battle 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 acquire 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 every second.
Henry Cejudo won gold . Five of T.J. Dillashaw’s past seven wins have come through knockout.
Odds Analysis
This is Cejudo’s second straight fight as an underdog after he shut as a large +350 dog contrary to Demetrious»Mighty Mouse» Johnson, arguably the pound-for-pound best at the time. The Olympian outwrestled en route to a split-decision victory to become the second-ever flyweight champion.
But because he’s the larger man dropping down in 20, it makes sense to be preferred. This is the fifth time ever that the UFC has had two sitting champions stand toe-to-toe and the fighter who has made the burden course move is 3-1 in the past four fights, with B.J. Penn’s reduction to GSP in 2009 being the sole defeat. That being 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 since they looked to secure two belts at the exact same moment.

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