{"id":45759,"date":"2022-08-15T07:04:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T07:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ufc-san-diego-henry-cejudo-not-impressed-with-marlon-veras-performance\/"},"modified":"2022-08-15T07:04:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T07:04:40","slug":"ufc-san-diego-henry-cejudo-not-impressed-with-marlon-veras-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ufc-san-diego-henry-cejudo-not-impressed-with-marlon-veras-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC San Diego: Henry Cejudo &#8216;not impressed&#8217; with Marlon Vera&#8217;s performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"2Ja8eM\">Henry Cejudo is a hard man to impress.<\/p>\n<p id=\"wRkxvm\">The former UFC two-division champion and Olympic gold medalist was critical of Marlon Vera&#8217;s performance against Dominick Cruz on Saturday despite &#8216;Chito&#8217; winning the fight via fourth-round knockout and bagging a $50,000 <em>Performance of the Night<\/em> bonus.<\/p>\n<p id=\"2oPytS\">&#8216;Triple C&#8217; claims Vera, who knocked out Cruz with a head kick, should have finished the fight sooner and that he was getting outpointed until he landed the KO.<\/p>\n<p id=\"np1JHp\">Cejudo made his feelings known on Twitter, although it&#8217;s hard to tell whether he was actually being serious.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tqOXSS\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dominic was easily winning that fight(4-0) he leans the head to heavy and it&#8217;s the same way I knocked him out too.  Chito won but I&#8217;m not impressed by his performance.  Going back to much and getting point fought the whole fight.  Chito could have finish him a couple times and didnt<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Henry Cejudo (@HenryCejudo) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HenryCejudo\/status\/1558646142501412864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">August 14, 2022<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"TIxweo\">\u201c[Dominick] was easily winning that fight(4-0) he leans the head too heavy and it&#8217;s the same way I knocked him out too.  Chito won but I&#8217;m not impressed by his performance.  Going back too much and getting point fought the whole fight.  Chito could have finished him a couple times and didn&#8217;t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"C80IRk\">Vera beat Cruz to extend his winning streak to 4-0 and potentially land a title shot against the winner of Aljamain Sterling vs.  TJ Dillashaw at UFC 280. He is currently #5 in the UFC bantamweight rankings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Cejudo is a hard man to impress. The former UFC two-division champion and Olympic gold medalist was critical of Marlon Vera&#8217;s performance against Dominick Cruz on Saturday despite &#8216;Chito&#8217; winning the fight via fourth-round knockout and bagging a $50,000 Performance of the Night bonus. &#8216;Triple C&#8217; claims Vera, who knocked out Cruz with a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ufc-san-diego-henry-cejudo-not-impressed-with-marlon-veras-performance\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UFC San Diego: Henry Cejudo &#8216;not impressed&#8217; with Marlon Vera&#8217;s performance<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45175,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/marlon-vera-dominick-cruzs-signature-approach-very-low-level-and-not-the-best-style-for-mma\/","url_meta":{"origin":45759,"position":0},"title":"Marlon Vera: Dominick Cruz&#8217;s signature approach &#8216;very low level&#8217; and &#8216;not the best style for MMA&#8217;","date":"August 14, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Marlon Vera had Dominick Cruz's number on Saturday. \u201cChito\u201d needed time to put Cruz down for good, but by the fourth round he was locked in and he landed a brutal head kick that left Cruz face-down on the mat to cap off the UFC San Diego main event. 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