UFC Fight Night: Cejudo vs Song ended in controversy after an accidental eye-poke what a fantastic Bantam weight fight had been to a without mercy.
UFC Seattle was on schedule to potentially be the biggest night of UFC action in the recent memory with no fewer than seven consecutive stops on the Prelims, including highlight-reel knockouts for Jean Silva and Ricky Simon.
Unfortunately, the main map did not succeed in that momentum; With the last three fights of the night ending through the scor cards of the jury members. That includes the main event, that was planned for five rounds, but was canceled after only three.
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Song Yadong wins 'technical decision' after Henry loses Cejudo vision
Former double champion Henry Cejudo and Chinese striking song Yadong went back and forth in what a sensational confrontation was of speed and skills for all 15 minutes.
After a low flowers had brought a temporary postponement in the third, there was a more important break in the action when Song accidentally kept an eye on Cejudo; His vast fingers connect at the same time with both eyes.
Although both fans in the arena and the commentators Cageside expected that the fight would take place after Cejudo had used up his five -minute recovery time, the former double champion soon began to complain that his vision had become blurry.
Between the rounds it was decided that Cejudo could not continue – the referee allowed the fourth round to start before he called the time, and because more than half of the planned rounds were completed, we went to the jury's score.
Song runs away with the profit of the technical decision, although it is safe to say that nobody is happy with the result.
Great drama in Seattle.
Henry Cejudo could not see Por after that eye.
The fight could have stopped there and were called a NO competition.
The referee started the 4th round for one second to consider it a scoreable fight.
This is super messy. pic.twitter.com/acmor8vwiv
– MMA History Today (@mmahistieintoday) 23 February 2025
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Petr Yan leads the response to controversial UFC Seattle Main Event
UFC fans and hunters are bitter disappointed about how the main event ended; Frustrated with the community by both the Eye Poke and the Chaos that followed.
Former Bantam weight champion Petr Yan posted: “Who misses me?” In response to the unconditional ending of the main event – before he teases that he will be ready to have his UFC return in just a few short months: “May or June I am ready to go.”
Yan defeated Song Yadong through a unanimous decision in March 2024 and defeated former flight weight champion Diveson Figueiredo last November – he is currently the #2 ranked Bantamweight candidate.
Terrance McKinney wrote on X, “Well Damn”, while Eryk said otherwise he said “hate” conclusion, and Jamahal Hill acknowledged that it was a “bitter end to an epic map.”
Big Eyepoke from Song. Would like to see that the rest of this fight stays clean and keeps the battle honest for both #ufcseatle
– Aljamain Sterling (@funkmastermma) 23 February 2025
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Jason 'Mayhem' Miller just called it the “weirdest night ever” and he is certainly not wrong there with post-Vecht pushing competitions and one-punch knockouts that dominate the headlines.
Cejudo Wild here tonight umn
– Derek Brunson (@derekbrunson) February 23, 2025
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Both Cejudo and Song stated that they would throw in an immediate rematch, but we will have to wait and see which direction the UFC will take these two Bantamweight candidates afterwards.
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