Henry Cejudo believes Ketlen Vieira may pose issues for Kayla Harrison on the ft.
Vieira (14-3 MMA, 8-3 UFC) meets Harrison (17-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) in a pivotal bantamweight conflict Saturday at UFC 307 (pay-per-view, ESPNews, ESPN+) from Delta Middle in Salt Lake Metropolis. Harrison is a large -800 favourite over Vieira, in accordance with DraftKings, but when she will’t get the struggle to the bottom, Cejudo sees a path to victory for the Brazilian.
“It’s exhausting to guess in opposition to a woman like Kayla Harrison,” Cejudo stated on his “Pound 4 Pound” podcast with Kamaru Usman. “However I feel out of all the women proper now at 135 kilos that would match her energy, as a result of Vieira’s a judo blackbelt, as effectively, and in my view she has higher palms than Harrison. So it’s going to come back all the way down to the wrestling.
“And I do really feel like Kayla Harrison goes to deliver the wrestling in, and that’s simply what’s going to vary it. But when Vieira can preserve it on her ft, I feel Kayla might be in hassle, dude. Her hanging is not any joke, man. She trains on the market with Jose Aldo. If Kayla can not take her down, it’s going to lean extra in direction of Vieira’s aspect.”
Though Cejudo sees Viera as Harrison’s hardest stylistic matchup at bantamweight, he in the end went with the two-time Olympic gold medalist judoka as his remaining decide.
“However due to the wrestling, I obtained to go along with the two-time Olympic champ,” Cejudo concluded. “I don’t wish to go in opposition to Kayla, coping with her is a f*cking ache, dude. There’s an excessive amount of ego between each of us mixed. So, I’m going to need to go along with the two-time Olympic champion, due to the wrestling. Not due to the judo, due to the wrestling.”
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