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CHICAGO — Just when it looked like Marlon Moraes may have found Henry Cejudo's Kryptonite, Cejudo turned the tide and fabricated UFC history.

Cejudo (15-2 MMA, 9-2 UFC), already the UFC'south flyweight champion, now is the bantamweight champ, as well, after a 3rd-circular TKO of Marlon Moraes (22-half dozen-one MMA, 4-two UFC) in a fight for a belt vacated past the now drug-suspended T.J. Dillashaw.

Cejudo got the stoppage at the four:51 mark of the middle frame after a barrage of punches and elbows on the canvas right in front of Moraes' corner. Cejudo now is the fourth fighter in UFC history to hold two titles at the same time, joining Conor McGregor, Daniel Cormier and Amanda Nunes.

The vacant bantamweight title tour was the primary event of Saturday's UFC 238 bear witness at United Center in Chicago. It aired on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and UFC Fight Pass/ESPN+.

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Moraes kicked Cejudo's left leg immediately, and then went high with a kick moments later. Cejudo tried his own high boot, simply Moraes easily slid out of the way. Afterward a Cejudo kick, the ii got into a brief firefight, and so two more moments later. Moraes again went later on Cejudo's lead leg with a kicking, simply Cejudo stayed on his feet.

A footling past two minutes in, Cejudo went for his first takedown and briefly had Moraes on the sheet. Back on the feet, Cejudo kicked high, and so tried to follow it with several punches before Moraes countered. With a minute left, Moraes kicked to the torso, then with 30 seconds left again attacked Cejudo's down depression.

The swinging continued from both fighters in the second. A spinning kick from Moraes was met with a right paw from Cejudo when he missed. But then Moraes went right back to attacking Cejudo'south legs. If Cejudo inverse stances, Moraes only went afterwards a different leg than the one he went afterwards before.

Moraes briefly knocked Cejudo off his anxiety with two minutes left, and then the 2 started swinging again. They both landed and Cejudo tried to find some momentum with jabs. Moraes landed an uppercut, then ate a human knee. Simply he answered with a caput kick before backing up looking plenty wobbled. Cejudo connected to fire the jabs, and when Moraes clinched him upward, Cejudo pounded his trunk.

With xxx seconds left Cejudo grabbed a Thai plum and landed three big knees. Somehow, Moraes stayed on his feet. They kept swinging down the stretch, but Cejudo rallied big time at the end of the frame with the articulatio genus onslaught.

Ninety seconds into the 3rd, Cejudo tried to take Moraes down. When he popped support, Cejudo again went after knees. When they tied up and went to the canvas once more, Cejudo latched onto a choke that Moraes was able to curlicue out of. Moraes then kept himself grounded to avoid taking any knees to the caput from Cejudo, only Cejudo instead pushed him to his back and landed several big punches.

Elbows followed with a minute left and Moraes in survival mode. Cejudo kept pounding abroad with punches and elbows, and did so more furiously when the 10-second clapper went off. With just a few seconds left, he got the TKO stoppage.

Ferguson beats Cerrone via TKO

In a tour that seemed to live up to the fans' expectations for a firefight, Tony Ferguson beat Donald Cerrone in what could have went down equally an all-time classic – before it was halted for a cutting.

Referee Dan Miragliotta waved off the fight between the second and third rounds after doctors looked at a massive cutting almost Cerrone'due south right eye. Ferguson (25-iii MMA, 15-1 UFC) got the TKO win over Cerrone (36-12 MMA, 23-9 UFC), and the fans booed what they accounted a disappointing end to a thrilling slugfest.

In betwixt rounds, Cerrone blew his nose – and it exacerbated the hematoma that already was under his right eye. And that led the doctors to shut things downwards.

"I just asked if they could button the air dorsum downwards. That's all I wanted," Cerrone told Joe Rogan afterward the fight. "That was the fight I think everybody wanted. I'm so lamentable. I don't quit. I don't back downward. Man, I just wanted to proceed fighting. I was merely asking, 'Can you just push the air back downwards?' You're right: I shouldn't take diddled my olfactory organ. I'g a veteran, I'm erstwhile school, and I should've known that. But I did, and I humbly couldn't finish the fight, and I apologize."

The lightweight bout was part of the principal card of Saturday's UFC 238 upshot at United Center in Chicago. It aired on pay-per-view following prelims on ESPN and UFC Fight Pass/ESPN+.

Cerrone kicked high right out of the gate, only Ferguson answered with i of the same. Cerrone tried to work a stiff jab when Ferguson tried to come inside, only Ferguson landed a jab of his own before long afterward. A strong left landed for Ferguson, just Cerrone worked through it and fired back. Cerrone pushed Ferguson back with a iii-dial philharmonic, then reset.

Only 100 seconds in, they started trading big bombs, then settled down for a few seconds of leg kicks. Cerrone landed, but Ferguson answered with a body kick. So Cerrone just missed up high with a head kick and followed it with two punches to the chin. Ferguson was unfazed and fired back.

Ferguson well-nigh landed a spinning back elbow with xc seconds left, and when they went back to the middle Ferguson was bleeding near his right eye. A large left landed for Cerrone with 25 seconds left most Ferguson's cut, and when the ten-second clapper went off the two threw with gusto to the fans' please.

Cerrone fired a big head kicking early in the second, and then seemed to be wobbled briefly by a Ferguson dial. Ferguson looked like he was finding his range with kicks, then a big jab, and Cerrone seemed like he was slowing downward a minute into the second. But the two kept trading. When Ferguson popped Cerrone's head back, Cerrone merely fired at him harder. Both were bloodied. 2 minutes in, Ferguson threw a spinning elbow again, just Cerrone ducked under and landed a kick. And then Ferguson did land the spinning attack, but Cerrone stayed on his anxiety. They both kept landing, simply neither went down.

With two minutes left, Cerrone changed things upwardly and landed a driving takedown. But Ferguson was back up quickly and they went back to swinging. Cerrone had a large mouse under his right heart. They kept swinging and landing, only the biggest oversupply response came when Ferguson landed a big right mitt later on the horn – though referee Dan Miragliotta hadn't stepped in to pause them still.

With claret dripping downwardly his chest from the massive cut under his eye, Miragliotta brought the cageside doctors in. They looked at his center, and that wound upward existence all she wrote.

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Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mma/2019/06/08/ufc-238-henry-cejudo-marlon-moraes-tony-ferguson-donald-cerrone/1399749001/