“I’m retiring from the whole cornering thing,” Matt Serra is heartbroken and retires after Aljamain Sterling didn’t include him in his corner for the title fight
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UFC bantamweight Aljamain Sterling won the UFC bantamweight title at UFC 259, by a controversial decision when Petr Yan hit him with an illegal knee in the fourth round.
If the title change wasn’t enough for the new champ, now his long-time coach and UFC legend Matt Serra have claimed that Sterling didn’t even call him to be in his corner for the fight, and left him on seen.
After the incident Serra has decided to retire from being the corner man for good, in an recent interview he said,
“When I found out I wasn’t in it, I gave Aljo a call. I felt stupid because I made a call before that and left a nice message. Then I got the call from Longo and he said, ‘How are you out of the corner? It’s your team.’ I said you fucking tell me.”
“But at the same time, I didn’t want his head fucked up before the fight so I didn’t attack him. I called him and left a message and said, ‘I love you and I’m here for you either way if you need me.’ I told Aljo a few weeks before he left (for Las Vegas) that the COVID shit is crazy so if you need to use bodies (for corners) I understand.”
“But when you’ve been with a guy for that long — first of all, Aljo texted me and said he would call me back, but I didn’t hear from the kid for three days. I don’t want to be over-sensitive, but how do you think those nights were sleeping? I’m just hurt. I know you’re busy and things are going on but I gotta know what the fuck I’m doing.”
“You’re gonna have some guy you been working with for three months and I’ve been with you for seven years?” Matt Serra makes a valid point
“I have nothing against Eric Nicksick, he’s a nice guy and it’s not his fault Aljo went there, but it’s like, hey man, you’re gonna have some guy you been working with for three months and I’ve been with you for seven years?”
“My thing is, going forward, it’s better now to make an exit on a high note. I loved cornering, but what is it for the next fight, is it me and Nicksick with rock-paper-scissors to see who gets to corner? I have a family. I will always be in this kid’s corner, just not physically anymore. And not by my choice, but by the choices that are made here. So I’m retiring from the whole cornering thing.”
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Suryansh Thakur
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