Petr Yan is unwilling to give Aljamain Sterling the benefit of the doubt. The former UFC bantamweight champion believes Aljamain Sterling was adding to the influence of an illegal knee thrown by Yan to win the tournament fight by being disqualified at UFC 259.
Petr Yan shared his account of what happened in an interview with Ariel Helwani of ESPN. “No Mercy” told Helwani that Aljamain Sterling abandoned his attempt to recover as soon as he heard the referee tell the doctor that Yan would be disqualified if Sterling could not continue. Aljamain Sterling decided to opt for disqualification to win rather than follow, Petr Yan said.
“You see. After the knee lay down, he was trying to get over it. But then I feel like he started to add to the truth, he started acting. Because he heard what the I feel like he could have followed but he didn’t choose First he said he doesn’t remember what happened and then he started explaining what happened. interviews after the fight and telling what was going on, so for me, he was very aware of what was going on and what he was doing. get a license, “said translator Petr Yan.
Petr Yan attempted the first successful defense of his UFC bantamweight title against No. 1 ranking Aljamain Sterling at a UFC 259 PPV event. The two fighters put on some amazing performances, but the blades started to pile in favor of the camp as the bout went on. An illegal knee from Petr Yan in the fourth round appeared to have injured Aljamain Sterling and he called for a halt in action while “Funkmaster” tried to overcome him.
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A destructive bullet capable of fighters who cannot keep going tends to separate them from the senses. It is very unlikely that a badly injured fighter will make a conscious decision after emphasizing the various factors that Aljamain Sterling explained in his YouTube video. However, there is no way to quantify the impact of an unexpected strike.
Lower weight classes require qualities that don’t stay with fighters when they start moving past 30. Aljamain Sterling is a 31-year-old firefighter in a region that has a talented group of opponents lined up for a title picture. The fight against Petr Yan was competitive but he was going in a direction that could have kept Sterling out of the title picture for a long time.