“Nervous yet”- Aljamain Sterling tries to intimidate Petr Yan before their title rematch at UFC 272
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Petr Yan and Aljamain Sterling
The fight between Aljamain Sterling and Petr Yan that took place at UFC 259 Las Vegas was one of the most controversial bouts last year. In that fight, Yan lost his bantamweight title after delivering an illegal knee. This made Sterling the first-ever fighter in UFC to win a title by disqualification.
The shocking turn of events after the fight forced MMA fans to raise various questions regarding the decision to make Sterling the new champion. According to unified rules MMA, Yan’s knee was indeed illegal and under normal circumstances, the bout should have been declared as a ‘No Contest‘.
During the fight, it was clearly visible that the Russian was dominating his opponent in every aspect of the fight. Conventionally, Sterling is a wrestler and had already planned to shoot takedowns to stop Yan’s offense during the fight who is an all-out boxer. But, according to the stats, Sterling just managed to land one takedown out of seventeen attempts. On the other hand, Yan had more successful takedowns than the Americans.
After the controversial win Sterling was eager to have a rematch with Yan as he wasn’t satisfied in winning the belt that way. But his social media posts described the contrary as the fighter went all out in advertising that he is the rightful champ.
As the whole MMA world came together and asked the ‘Funk master‘ to get into the Octagon with Yan for the rematch, Sterling came up with the update about his neck surgery. According to the fighter, he was suffering from the pain of injury since his college days. Many fans pointed out that the timing of the surgery was rather suspicious.
Petr Yan will do anything to get his undisputed title back from Aljamain Sterling
The rematch between Yan and Sterling is most likely to be held at UFC 272 pay-per-view event which will take place inside the ‘T-Mobile’ Arena in Las Vegas. This PPV will be happening in the month of March and the fans are already excited about the match-up.
After losing his belt in that controversial way, Yan went to face Cory Sandhagen and defeat him via decision at UFC 267. After beating Sandhagen, Yan is now all set to take what he deserves. As the rivalry is all set to fuel more, Sterling has already started to make his moves at his challenger.
“@PetrYanUFC nervous yet?” Sterling recently shared this message along with tagging Yan’s Twitter account. It seems like this is the beginning of the heated exchanges that will take place between these two fighters in the upcoming months
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