Henry Cejudo didn’t get pleasure from watching Sean Strickland vs. Paulo Costa at UFC 302.
Strickland defeated Costa by break up choice on this previous Saturday’s co-main occasion at Prudential Heart in Newark, N.J. – a scorecard which confused the likes of Dana White, who thought it ought to’ve been unanimous for Strickland. The UFC boss admitted it wasn’t the struggle he anticipated.
Strickland (29-6 MMA, 16-6 UFC) promised a conflict and put the blame on Costa (14-4 MMA, 6-4 UFC) for not partaking sufficient. Cejudo needed to see extra warmth from the 2.
“This struggle disillusioned lots of people,” Cejudo stated on his “Pound 4 Pound” podcast with Kamaru Usman. “I wasn’t anticipating that. They had been simply too pleasant, man. It’s nearly higher to have a bit little bit of animosity. They had been simply attempting to be homies, attempting to be pals.
“There’s an excessive amount of respect in there contained in the cage, as a result of no one needed to essentially lose to one another as a result of they’re each trolls, that the struggle simply ended up – the final 17 seconds of that struggle is what gave the roar, however apart from that, the struggle was a snoozefest. I don’t know the way else to say it.”
Cejudo’s co-host, Usman, gave Strickland and Costa the good thing about the doubt.
“I do know Dana was upset with it, however on the identical time, how will you be? These rounds – Spherical 3, Rounds 1 by way of 4 – had been comparatively back-and-forth, form of complicated,” Usman stated. “You recognize, Sean was form of throwing out extra strikes, however Paulo Costa, when he stood his floor, would land strikes that gave the impression to be a bit simpler. I don’t know. It was only a bizarre struggle.”
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