Jake Yono

5/5/23

JY Journalism

My Preview Of UFC 288 and Austin Bsahi's Lights Out Championship 11 Recap.

Hello everybody, today I am going to be previewing and analyzing UFC 288 between Aljarmain Sterling and Henry Cejudo and I am going to be reacting to a family friend of mine Austin Bashi in his win to climb up to 9-0 in the Lights Out Fighting Championship at the Hype Athletics Complex in Wayne MI. 

First for UFC 288, Henry Cejudo will return against Aljarmain Sterling the Current Bantamweight (135 lb) Champion. DraftKings has Henry Cejudo (Triple-C) as the slight favorite to become the new UFC Bantamweight Champion of the world. The fight will go the distance as this is a classic fighter vs wrestler bout in the UFC, there will be lots of significant strikes, and the fighter with the most ground control time and strikes on the ground will take this UFC Bantamweight Title. The 2 other contests I will watch on this card are the Co-Main Event Bebal Muhammad Vs. Gilbert Burns. I feel bad for Gilbert as in the last PPV card UFC 287 he went 3 hard rounds with Miami's own Jorge Masvidal and beat him by way of a Unanimous Decision. I think he will lose the same exact way he won with the star striker Bebal Muhammad. This fight is also significant in the UFC welterweight Division. The next and last fight I will watch is the featured prelim of the night between Drew Dober and Matt Frevola. This is a lightweight bout and I like both of these fighters the more experienced fighter Drew Dober will beat Matt Frevola in this lightweight bout. After all, I think UFC 288 will be an entertaining card mainly because of the return of Henry Cejudo but also because of the talented fighters we have and it’s all going down at the Prudential Center in Newark New Jersey.

Now let's get to talking about my family friend Austin Bashi. If you don't know who Austin Bashi is well he is a Chaladean-American Professional MMA Fighter with a carrer record of 9 wins and 0 losses. He is currently 21 years old and on the come up and is soon to be in the UFC. I Attended Bashi's last fight on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 against Pipe Vargas in the Lights Out Championship Promotion. Austin won by submission via Submission at 3:06 in Round # 2. Most if not all of his fights were won in a dominant fashion. Bashi was a state champion wrestler in high school and skipped college to move on to ammeter and then semi-pro MMA. The first Professional Promotion he fought on was the XFC and all of those fights were at the Deltaplex in Grand Rapids MI (Now closed) and he went 5-0 in those bouts with 2 finishes and 3 Unamious Decisions. The XFC shut down and was bought out by the Lights Out Championship which debuted in 2018 and Bashi is currently fighting in it now. He is 3-0 in Lights Out with 1 submission finish and 2 unanimous decisions. All professional MMA fighters have a dream of going to the UFC. I have some inside sources that have told me the UFC has called Austin Bashi two times to offer him a contract. Bashi declined both of these offers as he said he wanted to work on his weaknesses first before he joins the UFC. My thoughts on this are that I respect where he is coming from. I think he must work on his striking because if a more muscular guy in the UFC can force him to stand up and fight I think he will just lose by decision just like Raul Rosas did in his UFC debut. It would be cool to see someone I personally know in the best MMA organization in the world and to go and travel to one of his fights will be amazing. He will get there one day and I will be right there with him.

Today I talked about Austin Bashi’s reign to glory and Henry Cejudo’s return to fame in the world of Mixed Martial Arts. Thank you guys for listening and see you in the next one.