Henry Cejudo expects UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling to have his approach with Sean O’Malley.
Sterling (23-3 MMA, 15-3 UFC) defends his title in opposition to O’Malley (16-1 MMA, 8-1 UFC) within the UFC 292 headliner Aug. 19 at TD Backyard in Boston.
Cejudo is coming off a break up determination loss to Sterling at UFC 288, the place he was taken down 4 instances. So if Sterling was capable of take down the Olympic gold medalist wrestler, Cejudo doesn’t see how O’Malley might cease him.
“I do imagine Aljamain Sterling’s gonna press him, get him in opposition to the cage,” Cejudo mentioned on “Smack Talk With Sandhu.” “If he’s capable of take me down, he might take any of these guys down. So Sean’s gonna be in hassle. Sean simply depends on his putting. I’m certain he works on the jiu-jitsu, however in MMA it’s simply completely different. I do imagine that Sterling’s gonna get on high of him and just about simply damage him.”
Though Cejudo misplaced to Sterling, he was capable of land three takedowns of his personal. “Triple C” closed out the struggle robust in Spherical 5 however admits the earlier rounds had been all very shut.
“It was management the space,” Cejudo mentioned of his sport plan. “However on the identical time, I additionally knew that if he was gonna be rangy and somewhat tough, that I used to be going to type of do Mexican type, carry the strain, however I don’t know. I’m not too completely happy about my efficiency.”
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