‘I Am A Main Card Fighter’

Aljamain Sterling was left confused by his relegation to the prelims.

After scoring a unanimous choice victory over Calvin Kattar in his featherweight debut at UFC 300, the ‘Funk Grasp’ returns to the Octagon this Saturday evening at UFC 310 in Las Vegas. Sterling is ready to sq. off with Movsar Evloev in a bout that was initially scheduled to go down in October till Sterling suffered an damage.

During the last a number of years, Sterling has been a mainstay on foremost playing cards and in foremost occasions. Nevertheless, his function on the ultimate pay-per-view of the yr will see him take a spot on the prelims — a place he’s not precisely thrilled with.

“I didn’t know if I ought to have been insulted by the position on the battle card or glass half-full,” Sterling mentioned in a video on his YouTube channel. “I assume that’s one of the best ways I attempt to take a look at all the pieces in life. I get to battle earlier and get to be executed earlier. I used to be somewhat confused by it, after all. I assume they’ve their rhyme or motive for what they do, the UFC brass, and it’s what it’s.

“On the finish of the day, it’s not my group. I don’t name the photographs. I simply go on the market and compete, and it’s as much as me to go on the market and show these guys mistaken that I’m a foremost card fighter. I believe individuals are gonna be in for a really large shock, and the UFC is gonna understand we tousled large time by not placing this on the primary card” (h/t MMA Mania).

Does Aljamain Sterling have some extent?

To be honest, Sterling has not competed on the prelims since his win over Pedro Munhoz at UFC 238 greater than 5 years in the past. The lone exception throughout that timeframe was his scrap with Kattar at UFC 300 — an occasion so stacked that two former UFC champions had been the curtain-jerkers.

Why Dana White and Co. opted to maintain Sterling off the primary card is anybody’s guess, but when we’re being trustworthy, his three-round scrap with Kattar didn’t precisely set the world on fireplace, nor did Evloev’s final outing in opposition to Arnold Allen in January.