Sean O’Malley didn’t find Aljamain Sterling’s featherweight debut very interesting.
Sterling (24-4 MMA, 16-4 UFC) earned a shutout victory at UFC 300 by choking Calvin Kattar (23-8 MMA, 7-6 UFC) with a grappling move. The former bantamweight champion, who lost his title to O’Malley by knockout, showed he has power at 145 pounds.
Bantamweight champion O’Malley (18-1 MMA, 10-1 UFC) took note of Sterling’s performance.
“‘Arjo’ looked good. It made Calvin look bad,” O’Malley said on his YouTube channel. “I think it was three times, three different times. The crowd was booing. (Sterling) just took him down, pinned him down, just held him there, I mean, that’s what happened. It’s his style. You know, I saved the bantamweight division — that’s what I was trying to say.”
But O’Malley acknowledged that big things were on the horizon for Sterling, calling up Brian Ortega after the win. Mr. Sterling also mentioned Mr. Movsar Evloev, who responded to his interest.
O’Malley agrees.
“But who’s going to go next? If you go out there and take down Calvin in impressive fashion, I thought, ‘Damn, there might be a big fight,'” O’Malley said. Told. “But after that, whether people love him or hate him, Arjo is a star in a way, and then he’s going to have even bigger fights.
“Calvin is on a three-game losing streak. He’s a little older. He won in a boring decision, but who do you give Arjo to at featherweight now? What about Diego Lopez? Maybe they give him Mokhsar (Evloev) right.”
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