“People were being super racist,” Adrian Yanez on the amount of hate Aljamain Sterling received prior to Petr Yan rematch
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UFC Bantamweight Adrian Yanez is one of the few people who know how much adversity has UFC Bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling has overcome in order to be legitimately accepted as the undisputed champion of the world. Yanez is a promising upcoming prospect who is extremely phenomenal with his boxing at 135 lbs division and is going to fight next month in his home state of Texas, USA at UFC on ESPN 37 against another fellow prospect in Tony Kelley.
Yanez and Sterling are occasional training partners for each other. So Yanez was absolutely all smiles when Sterling finally avenged his disqualification win with a more legitimate win over rival and former champion Petr Yan in the rematch at UFC 273 back in early April of 2022. The first fight back in March 2021 ended being a disqualification win for Sterling after Yan ended the fight with an illegal knee strike to the grounded opponent. Sterling defeated Yan in the rematch via split decision. Who is likely to face next, is still not clear yet.
Adrian Yanez remembers “really really disturbing” comments on one of Aljamain Sterling’s Instagram posts
In an interview with James Lynch, Yanez talks about his future as a fighter, his upcoming fight with Tony Kelley, his future with a streaming platform Twitch as a gamer and much more. In the midst of all, Yanez talks about how people hated on Sterling because he didn’t get the championship in the first fight with Yan in a non-contentious manner and hence had a first hand experience of trolls booing the champion in the most unwanted manner possible.
“Going back to social media, everybody talks all that sh*t , but man, like just to see the amount of hate the guy had got, like dude, like people were calling him clown, people were being super super racist man. I was tagged in one of his posts, he tagged me… just looking through the comments… people were getting super racist. So like to see him come out on top just with all the adversity, all the people calling him [out]… it was really really disturbing…” said Yanez who was in awe of how Sterling was able to pull of the victory despite all this amount of negativity.
What do you make of Yanez experience of seeing Sterling on the receiving end of the internet hate? What are your predictions for Yanez upcoming fight, who do you think gets the win? Also, who do you think is next title defence for Sterling? Combat sports legend Henry Cejudo recently announced his return to the USADA testing pool and also said that he would most likely fight for the bantamweight title on his return followed by a title fight at featherweight as well, what are your thoughts on that?
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