Tune Yadong and Henry Cejudo each appeared open to a rematch after a disappointing finish to their struggle within the UFC Seattle major occasion, nevertheless it doesn’t sound prefer it’s truly going to occur.
The bantamweight bout ended after the third spherical when Cejudo wasn’t unable to proceed as a result of a nasty eye poke delivered by Tune throughout an trade on the ft. Cejudo repeatedly acknowledged “I can’t f*cking see” when chatting with his coaches, which led to the ringside doctor stopping the struggle.
As a result of three rounds have been accomplished, the judges’ scorecards have been tallied with Tune getting the win by technical determination however Dana White already noticed sufficient that he doesn’t need to see it once more, no matter the way it ended.
“In no way,” White stated about his curiosity in a rematch through the UFC Seattle post-fight press convention. “Not even just a little bit. I simply don’t need to see it once more.”
White didn’t precisely take purpose at Cejudo for not with the ability to proceed, though he wasn’t in any respect shocked that the struggle ended after the attention poke compromised his imaginative and prescient within the third spherical.
To that time within the struggle, Tune was up on the scorecards and appeared to be surging additional forward however the foul introduced the motion to an unsatisfying conclusion.
“Yeah [I knew he wasn’t going to be able to continue],” White stated about Cejudo. “I don’t know [how he was feeling]. I’ll let him reply all these questions.
“Tune appeared good. Solely [Cejudo] can reply these questions. I don’t know if he thought ‘if I cease right here, is that this a [disqualification], no contest?’ I don’t know what he was considering or perhaps he can’t see.”
Maybe the most important argument about the way in which the struggle ended was referee Jason Herzog selecting to not assess some extent deduction for the foul, which is all the time on the official’s discretion.
For his half, White clearly didn’t appear to suppose some extent deduction was essential as a result of in his estimation, Tune didn’t commit the foul on objective.
“In the event you thought he deliberately poked him within the eye, [you take a point],” White stated. “Why would he poke him within the eye? He was doing fairly properly. If he was getting his ass whooped, and he poked him within the eye, you may most likely make the argument.”
Whereas the UFC CEO clearly felt nice in regards to the total card in Seattle, White was clearly far much less enthusiastic when addressing the way in which the primary occasion ended, particularly given the circumstances surrounding the stoppage.
“Pay attention, eye pokes are by no means good however they occur quite a bit,” White stated. “And fights do proceed after eye pokes. I don’t know, I’d must look and see what number of fights are literally stopped as a result of an eye fixed poke. Not many.”
