On a recent episode of Demetrious Johnson’s MightyCast, former UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling joined him as a guest.
As you’d expect, at one point, the conversation turned to Sterling’s fight with Sean O’Malley at UFC 292 where he lost the bantamweight title, which he has spoken about a lot since.
“Funkmaster” was pretty open about the fact that he didn’t want to fight “Suga” when the UFC wanted him to.
Having just defended his title against Henry Cejudo, Sterling wanted some time off, instead of jumping back into another training camp.
He spoke about this and how it affected him in the podcast episode.
“For a guy who’s already depleted, it’s not like I had a lot to lose so to do that drastic weight cut in such a short amount of time, I knew I was like fighting an uphill battle. I’m like, you know, I told my manager no probably like five different times but eventually, somehow, I was eventually convinced to take it.”
MMA Fans React To Aljamain Sterling Talking About The Decision To Fight Sean O’Malley
Sterling has come out and said that though he could have and probably should’ve put his foot down to have the best chance of winning this fight, he was persuaded to take it and that’s how it played out.
However, fans are beginning to become a little fed up over Sterling talking about how his loss was partly down to being cajoled against his wishes to take the fight.
They voiced their opinions in the comment section underneath the video.
“He’s done nothing but makes excuses while refusing to give Sean credit.”
“The more Aljo talks, the more I realise I don’t actually like him”
“Excuses delusions, misplaced blame and anger and victim mentality effect some fighters so much they can’t see reality. Tyrone Woodly and Aljo are 2 of the damn worst.”
“Who else is sick of all this victimhood.”
“Dana hated both of these guys as champions.”
“Sean o malley had broken ribs and couldn’t grapple and he still fought aljo and whooped him”
“Bro is STILL talking about this?? Aljo, let it go man.”
“You got merked, accept it like a man.”
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