“It bothers me that I got tired so quickly halfway through the second,” getting tired was the thing that bothered Aljamain Sterling the most
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Alajamin Sterling was involved in a major controversy that involves the bantamweight title, the event took place at UFC 259, and the former champ Petr Yan was disqualified due to an illegal knee and Sterling was crowned as the champion.
Following the fight MMA community had mixed opinions about this title change and now Sterling has spoken too, in an interview with MMA Junkie he said, “If (Cejudo) actually saw my training, he would know and everybody else would know, I can actually keep that pace for five rounds.
It bothers me that I got tired so quickly halfway through the second. I don’t know what I’m blaming it on, but I think there’s a couple of pieces of things I’d done differently. My water load for one.
“The strength and conditioning were a little different. I don’t think it was that, though. I had a great output in my sparring sessions with strike counts and my wrestling takedown and expenditure for getting submissions, getting takedowns, and even against the guys who are tough to take down who are jiu-jitsu black belts”
“Guys from Dagestan who wrestle in Dagestan and have good wrestling bases. (I was still) able to get them down, or them taking me down and me being able to get back up.”
Sterling says he don’t feel like a champ
When asked about its Sterling said he doesn’t feel like a champ and in his title defence he is looking to prove the world that he is the rightful champion and he deserves it.
In the same interview he added, “In terms of my mind and how things went, I don’t feel like the champ. That’s the motivation right there, to show the world I can keep that pace for 25 minutes. … I’m always going to try to find a way when there is time on that clock.”
“I think the fans definitely would (recognize that) or maybe they do, maybe they don’t. Maybe they’d appreciate that in terms of my tenacity and how I come to the octagon. I plan on coming out of the gate the same exact way, so I hope he’s ready for that. He better be ready for that.”
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Suryansh Thakur
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