Cory Sandhagen, like his next opponent TJ Dillashaw, doesn’t see Aljamain Sterling beating Petr Yan in the rematch. At UFC 259, Yan and Sterling had their anticipated bantamweight title fight. In the scrap, Yan dropped Sterling in the first and w…
Cory Sandhagen, like his next opponent TJ Dillashaw, doesn’t see Aljamain Sterling beating Petr Yan in the rematch. At UFC 259, Yan and Sterling had their anticipated bantamweight title fight. In the scrap, Yan dropped Sterling in the first and was starting to dominate the scrap. He was stuffing the American’s takedowns and even taking […]
Aljamain Sterling now has a firmer timeline on when we could be seeing him return to competition, and he also has a strong message for his detractors. In a recent interview with MiddleEasy, Aljamain Sterling revealed that he rejected a rematch against …
Aljamain Sterling now has a firmer timeline on when we could be seeing him return to competition, and he also has a strong message for his detractors. In a recent interview with MiddleEasy, Aljamain Sterling revealed that he rejected a rematch against Petr Yan because he is still recovering from lingering neck issues. In this […]
Aljamain Sterling and Demetrious Johnson still disagree on whether knees to a downed fighter should be legal, even after Johnson fell victim to the maneuver on Wednesday. Following Aljamain Sterling’s DQ victory over Petr Yan to become the new UFC bant…
Aljamain Sterling and Demetrious Johnson still disagree on whether knees to a downed fighter should be legal, even after Johnson fell victim to the maneuver on Wednesday. Following Aljamain Sterling’s DQ victory over Petr Yan to become the new UFC bantamweight champion, one of the many people who weighed in on the controversial win was […]
Aljamain Sterling believes Sean O’Malley is the real deal and doesn’t put too much stock in his loss to Marlon Vera. At UFC 252 in August, Vera scored a first-round TKO win over O’Malley due to O’Malley’s ankle giving out….
Aljamain Sterling believes Sean O’Malley is the real deal and doesn’t put too much stock in his loss to Marlon Vera. At UFC 252 in August, Vera scored a first-round TKO win over O’Malley due to O’Malley’s ankle giving out. After Vera kicked him, it hit the nerve and caused “Suga” to have drop foot […]
It looks like fans and Petr Yan may be in for a long wait for Aljamain Sterling to return for a UFC 259 rematch. Petr Yan entered UFC 259 as bantamweight champion but would go on to lose the strap after illegally kneeing Sterling in the face. This left…
It looks like fans and Petr Yan may be in for a long wait for Aljamain Sterling to return for a UFC 259 rematch. Petr Yan entered UFC 259 as bantamweight champion but would go on to lose the strap after illegally kneeing Sterling in the face. This left all parties involved with an unpleasant […]
UFC bantamweight champion, Aljamain Sterling, believes Sean O’Malley is a legit contender at 135lbs. ‘Suga’ is fresh off an impressive return to the win column at UFC 259. The 26-year-old put on a striking clinic against Thomas Almeida before earning a brutal KO in the third and final round. During a recent interview with James […]
UFC bantamweight champion, Aljamain Sterling, believes Sean O’Malley is a legit contender at 135lbs.
‘Suga’ is fresh off an impressive return to the win column at UFC 259.
The 26-year-old put on a striking clinic against Thomas Almeida before earning a brutal KO in the third and final round.
During a recent interview with James Lynch, Sterling gave his thoughts on O’Malley as a potential player at bantamweight.
“O’Malley, I think he’s the real deal,” Sterling said. “We don’t know how good he is off of his back yet. But in terms of his feet, his footwork, he’s a tough out I think for a lot of people because he’s long, he’s rangy, and he knows how to move on the feet.” (Transcribed by BJPENN.com)
‘The Funk Master’ refused to pay much attention to the fact the only time O’Malley has stepped up his level of competition, he was stopped inside one round by Marlon ‘Chito’ Vera.
“I think people kind of wrote him off too soon,” Sterling said. “The Chito fight was a very fluke-ish kinda scenario, not saying it was a fluke kick cause he threw the kick. But it was just one of those things like what are the odds that it actually happens.”
“The fight was just getting going, and if his foot was okay and the fight was going from there, when he was on the ground,” Sterling continued. “I don’t know, it makes it tough to take that away from Chito, but that kind of fight-ending could really put a damper on O’Malley’s performance what he was able to do one, two minutes before that. It was just such a short fight you can’t put too much stock into that.” (Transcribed by Essentially Sports)
Do you agree with Aljamain Sterling? Is Sean O’Malley the real deal? Should fans look past his loss to Marlon Vera?
UFC bantamweight champion, Aljamain Sterling, believes Sean O’Malley is a legit contender at 135lbs. ‘Suga’ is fresh off an impressive return to the win column at UFC 259. The 26-year-old put on a striking clinic against Thomas Almeida before earning a brutal KO in the third and final round. During a recent interview with James […]