Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2023-05-06, pretty good mma: Aljamain Sterling vs Henry Cejudo gets three stars (check out our rankings for The best MMA matches of 2023).
Cejudo vs Sterling is scheduled for Saturday, May 6, at the Prudential Center in Newark (New Jersey, USA), in a five-round bantamweight match (135 lbs, 61 kg); it’s the main event of UFC 288 and it’s valid for the UFC bantamweight championship (Sterling’s third defense). Watch the video and Rate this fight!
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Brazil’s jiu-jitsu black belt and current Ufc Bw champion Aljamain Sterling come into the match with a professional mma record of 22-3-0 (50% completion rate) and he is ranked as No.1 bantamweight rankings in the world.
England lost to Marlon Moraes at the end of 2017 (Aljamain Sterling vs Marlon Moraes) but then he won eight defeats, in the last three, twice Petr Yan (due to disqualification – illegal knee, Petr Yan vs Aljamain Sterling I and a controversial split decision in the rematch Aljamain Sterling vs Petr Yan II) and once TJ Dillashaw (Aljamain Sterling vs TJ Dillashaw).
Henry Cejudo’s record
His opponent, 2008 Olympic freestyle wrestling gold medalist, former Ufc Flw and Bw champion Henry Cejudo, has an official record of 16-2-0 (50% win rate ko/tko – he never won by subjugation) but he’s not ranked because he hasn’t fought since 2020.
He lost two games in a row in 2016 to Demetrious Johnson (in their first game, Johnson vs. Cejudo I) and Joseph Benavidez (passing the decision to part ways, Benavidez vs Cejudo), but he later won six matches defeating Marlon Moraes (Henry Cejudo vs Marlon Moraes) and Dominick Cruz in his last two games (Henry Cejudo vs Dominick Cruz).
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Here’s the full UFC 288 fight card (we’ll update it after deliberation):
KEY CARD (live on ESPN PPV)
Aljamain Sterling vs Henry Cejudo
Gilbert Burns vs. Belal Muhammad
Jessica Andrade vs Xiaonan Yan
Movsar Evloev vs Diego Lopes
Kron Gracie vs Charles Jourdain
PRINCIPAL TRIAL (live on ESPN / ESPN+)
Drew Dober vs. Matt Frevola
Devin Clark vs Kennedy Nzechukwu
Kalinn Khaos Williams vs Rolando Bedoya
Marina Rodriguez vs Virna Jandiroba
EARLY TRIAL (live on ESPN / ESPN+ / UFC Fight Pass)
Parker Porter vs Braxton Smith
Phil Hawes vs Ikram Aliskerov
Claudio Ribeiro vs Joseph Holmes
Countdown – Video Preview
Watch the official video of the full UFC 288 countdown episode Aljamain Sterling vs Henry Cejudo, a documentary to get a better look at the lives of both fighters and how they prepared for their fights.
Embedded: Vlog Series
Watch all episodes of UFC 288 Embedded: Vlog Series (we usually post playlists with all videos or if not possible, post individual clips).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videoseries
Pre-match press conference
Watch UFC 288’s pre-fight press conference for free, featuring Henry Cejudo and Aljamain Sterling!
Consider
Watch the video of UFC 288: Sterling vs Cejudo weigh in and head-to-head from the official Ufc YouTube channel!
Full/Featured Match Video
Here we will post a collection of the best videos of the Aljamain Sterling vs Henry Cejudo match right after the match is over. If you watched the full battle, you can rate it at the end of this post. (All videos are hosted on free video platforms like Youtube, Dailymotion, Facebook etc and not uploaded by AllTheBestFights.com)
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Official Highlights – Spain
Result
Who won the Sterling vs Cejudo fight?
Aljamain Sterling beat Henry Cejudo by split decision. The score is 47–48, 48–47, 48–47.
Interview after the battle
Hear the words of a winner or two boxers after their bout, here’s Aljamain Sterling and Henry Cejudo’s UFC 288 post-fight octagon interview.
UFC 288 results
Here are the results of all the fights of UFC 288 Sterling vs Cejudo.
MAIN CARD
Aljamain Sterling defends. Henry Cejudo via SD
Belal Muhammad against. Gilbert Burns via UD
Yan Xiaonan def. Jessica Andrade via TKO r1
Movsar Evloev def. Diego Lopes via UD
Charles Jourdain def. Kron Gracie via UD
PRINCIPAL CARD
Matt Frevola def. Drawn Dober via TKO r1
Kennedy Nzechukwu def. Devin Clark via SUB r2
Khaos Williams beat. Rolando Bedoya via SD
Virna Jandiroba def. Marina Rodriguez via UD
EARLY PROJECT CARD
Parker Porter defeated. Braxton Smith via TKO r1
Defensive Ikram Aliskerov. Phil Hawes via KO r1
Claudio Ribeiro def. Joseph Holmes via TKO r2
Post-match press conference
Watch and listen to UFC 288’s official post-fight press conference video, titled main event Henry Cejudo and Aljamain Sterling (free live stream from UFC – Ultimate Fighting Championship Youtube channel).
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UFC 288 Night Fight: Movsar Evloev vs Diego Lopes
Performance of the night UFC 288: Matt Frevola, Yan Xiaonan
