UFC featherweight Aljamain Sterling has defined why he isn’t a fan of his upcoming combat towards Brian Ortega being 5 rounds as a substitute of three.
This weekend, Aljamain Sterling will lock horns with Brian Ortega within the co-main occasion of UFC Shanghai. If he wins, the previous bantamweight champion may vault himself proper into title rivalry at 145 kilos. After all, getting by means of Ortega goes to be simpler stated than performed.
He’ll, nevertheless, have longer to take action, with Aljamain Sterling vs Brian Ortega being scheduled for 5 rounds as a substitute of the same old three. Whereas loads of fighters have a tendency to love getting extra time to work, it seems that isn’t the case for ‘Funk Grasp’, as he revealed in a latest interview.
Aljamain Sterling irritated about 5 rounds in Brian Ortega combat
“Yeah, I don’t know why it’s 5 rounds,” Sterling informed MMA Preventing. “I don’t know if Brian Ortega is the one who requested for 5 rounds. However like, five-round important occasions, in the event you’re not the champion, you get an additional pay incentive. So I’m type of irritated as a result of we’re not getting additional pay for 5 rounds.
“I’m like, ‘Did he need to combat 5 rounds for no more money?’ I believe it’s type of f*cking silly. Like, what are we getting out of this? We’re not getting a trophy on the finish of this, so why are we preventing 5 rounds? That is 10 additional minutes of coaching, 10 additional minutes of preventing. I don’t know. I legitimately have no idea.
“We’ve acquired the identical supervisor, so. I don’t need 5 rounds. Like, who desires to do 5 rounds? Who desires to combat extra for a similar pay price that they’re going to get? It doesn’t make any sense.”
Quotes through MMA Fighting
Will he get the win he wants, combat followers?
