Today in Newark, the main fight of the night took place between Aljamain Sterling (USA) and Henry Cejudo (USA) at the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) 288 tournament. Sterling won.
The fight lasted for five rounds and ended in a split decision victory for Sterling.
It was Sterling’s third championship defense. In October, he defended his title against compatriot TJ Dallasshaw, who won by technical knockout. He defended his title in a duel against Russian Petr Yan at the UFC-273 tournament in April last year. This meeting was vengeful in nature. In a previous fight, Yang was disqualified for hitting a sitting opponent on the head with his knee. Sterling won the welterweight title in the first fight against the Russians.
He now has 26 fights, 23 of which were victorious and three more lost.
For Cejudo, this fight was 19 in mixed martial arts. In them, he managed to win 16 victories.
It was previously reported that At UFC 288, Russian Movsar Evloev defeated Brazilian Diego Lopez..