Josh Thomson wasn’t particularly impressed by the work the commentary staff did through the UFC 288 predominant occasion between Aljamain Sterling and Henry Cejudo.
The bantamweight title battle served because the headlining bout for final weekend’s UFC 288 in New Jersey, the place Cejudo returned to motion for the primary time in three years when he challenged Sterling. Cejudo left the game on a excessive observe by defending the bantamweight title in opposition to Dominick Cruz at UFC 249, however “Funk Grasp” managed to earn a cut up choice victory over the Olympic gold medalist for the third profitable protection of his belt.
UFC 288 and its predominant occasion have been the dominant headlines within the MMA world final weekend, and present Bellator analyst Thomson voiced some frustrations concerning the card’s commentary staff on a latest episode of his present Weighing In with “Huge” John McCarthy.
“[Cejudo] didn’t do something improper, he didn’t make any errors,” Thomson mentioned, “I used to be getting just a little mad at a number of the commentary. ‘Trigger they saved saying like, ‘ Oh, the leg kicks are having an impact.’ He didn’t swap his stances, he wasn’t flinching, he wasn’t hobbling, he wasn’t limping. What are you speaking about? Yeah, they harm. I’m positive they harm. However he wasn’t exhibiting something that mentioned the leg was harm…I imply if you happen to’re gonna begin saying that that’s what occurred, then – I don’t wanna say, they’re not skewing the viewers that’s listening at dwelling.”
Josh Thomson Took Difficulty With Some Of Daniel Cormier’s Commentary
The UFC 288 commentary staff consisted of Jon Anik on play-by-play with Joe Rogan and Daniel Cormier offering technical evaluation, and Thomson went on to say he was significantly pissed off with the narrative he felt Cormier created through the card’s predominant occasion.
“However that bothered me just a little bit, the leg kick factor bothered me just a little bit after which additionally too, like even DC…He was saying that Henry must get these rounds, he’s type of preventing from behind. I didn’t have a look at it that approach. I checked out it as like they each want – if I’m a commentator, I should be saying ‘Each these guys want to indicate themselves that they’re successful these rounds convincingly.’”
There’s all the time going to be some controversy when a battle ends in a cut up choice, and regardless that he bought the win Sterling is perhaps a bit pissed off by the outcome. “Funk Grasp” has struggled to solidify his place as champion after successful the bantamweight title by way of disqualification in 2021, and two out of his three title protection have now been cut up choices whereas his win at UFC 280 got here in opposition to an injured T.J. Dillashaw.
Even when his return didn’t go the best way he in all probability hoped, Cejudo nonetheless proved that he’s able to hanging with the very best bantamweights the UFC has to supply. “Triple C” appeared a bit not sure about his future instantly following the loss to Sterling, however the 36-year-old has since declared that he has no plans of heading again into retirement.
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