If anybody was happy to see current flyweight champion Henry Cejudo chumming it up with Joseph Benavidez out in Australia, it was Marlon Moraes — the bantamweight limbo contender who finds himself in a strange situation. A week before the flyweights showed up at UFC 234 together in Melbourne, Moraes put an emphatic stamp on his own claim to a title shot by taking out perennial contender Raphael Assuncao in Fortaleza, Brazil.
The X-factor is bantamweight champion T.J. Dillashaw. After losing to Cejudo in Brooklyn last month in a flyweight title fight, Dillashaw is lobbying for a rematch, a concept that would leave Moraes — and Benavidez for that matter — out in the cold.