January 20 Henry Cejudo v TJ Dillashaw Betting Tips & Predictions

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UFC Betting Tips

5 August, 2024

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Lovers of all things mixed martial arts have a fascinating evening in store as the latest offering from the Ultimate Fighting Championship comes to us on Sunday 20 January. UK fans are able to watch the action live from midnight. Here are our best Henry Cejudo v TJ Dillashaw betting tips.

The main event has a 5.00am advertised start time; however, that shouldn’t put too many off with a bumper audience expected to stay up late to catch Henry Cejudo v TJ Dillashaw. The world-famous Barclays Center in New York plays hosts and there will be a sell-out crowd in attendance for what promises to be a thrilling start to the year.

As well as Henry Cejudo v TJ Dillashaw headlining the card, there’s also plenty to enjoy from the support acts making up the Main Card with Greg Hardy v Allen Crowder meeting at heavyweight; Gregor Gillespie v Yancy Medeiros at lightweight; Joseph Benavidez v Dustin Ortiz flyweight; Paige VanZant v Rachel Ostovich women’s flyweight and Glover Teixeira taking on Ion Cutelaba in the light heavyweight category.

Some of the names scheduled to show on the Preliminary Card, shown live on ESPN, are Donald Cerrone, Alexander Hernandez, John Lineker, Dennis Bermudez, Belal Muhammad and Randy Brown.

Plenty to Bet On

As well as a star-studded show throwing up plenty of evenly matched contests, bookmakers have done the ground work to ensure there’s also enough for sports punters to get stuck into, helping make the evening a little more enjoyable. UFC cards always bringing excitement but there’s nothing quite like the satisfaction that comes from calling the winner and making a profit into the bargain. Betting means you can cash in on your knowledge of sport.

Have your say on the winner of the main event or pick a few predictions and club them together in an accumulator, gifting players the chance to win big for a small stakes bet. You can also push your luck a little further and play the method of victory market.

This carries a little more risk as you must correctly predict who will win the fight and how they will do it – knockout, submission or points – so it’s double the job, but the rewards are far greater, and many see them well worth shooting for.

Doing your research is something we always advise before making your bets and its amazing just how often a big fight, match or race will follow the trends. It’s worth knowing who the form fighter is and how his recent results have gone. Is he a big hitter with knockout power in his stand-up game? Back him to win by KO/TKO. Perhaps the favourite is more of an MMA all-rounder who prefers it on the mat. Take a chance on him impressing the scoring judges and winning by decision.

Viper on a Winning Run

TJ Dillashaw is a two-time and current UFC bantamweight champion fighting out of Denver, Colorado. The 32-year-old, nicknamed The Viper, has a professional MMA record reading 16 wins from 19 contests with eight of those victories coming by way of knockout. There are also five decisions on the card with another three submission results. On the other side of the fence his CV shows three defeats, two by decision and one KO reverse.

A genuine all-rounder, Dillashaw brings a style collecting his past experiences fighting Muay Thai, wrestling and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and that ensures he’s comfortable both on his feet or with is back to the mat. That shows in his results with TJ winning each of his last four. Since losing to Dominick Cruz via a split decision on UFC Fight Night Boston in 2016, a result that cost him the UFC title, he bounced back to record wins over Raphael Assuncao by decision on UFC 200; John Lineker decision UFC 207; Cody Garbrandt TKO UFC 217 and the same man by the same method on UFC 227 in August of this year before an appreciative Los Angeles audience.