Track Yadong scored the largest win of his MMA profession in opposition to Henry Cejudo at UFC Seattle, nevertheless it got here with a wholesome dose of controversy.
Via greater than two-and-a-half rounds, Track and Cejudo delivered an entertaining scrap that noticed the 2 bantamweight stars touchdown massive pictures on each other. Nevertheless, issues took a flip for the more serious with simply over a minute left within the third when Track inadvertently poked ‘Triple C’ within the eye.
Replay confirmed that it was an particularly unhealthy eye poke that prompted Cejudo to take the complete 5 minutes of relaxation time earlier than resuming the struggle. Cejudo stayed elusive via the rest of the spherical, clearly simply making an attempt to get again to his nook.
As soon as Cejudo made it to his stool, he instantly informed his nook that he couldn’t see out of his left eye and requested for the cageside doctor to return in and test. With Cejudo explaining that he can’t see, referee Jason Herzog defined to each fighters that he would start the fourth spherical after which instantly deliver it to a pause which might permit him to ship the five-round struggle to the scorecards sooner than anticipated.
Technically, Herzog didn’t want to start out the fourth spherical. Regardless, the struggle was referred to as off and we went to the scorecards which revealed Track Yadong because the winner.
Official End result: Track Yadong def. Henry Cejudo by way of technical determination (29-28, 29-28, 30-27)
Apparently, if Cejudo had opted to bow out of the struggle with time nonetheless left within the third spherical, the struggle would have been dominated a no-contest. By ending the third spherical, that’s what allowed Herzog to go to the scorecards and hand ‘Triple C’ his third straight loss.
