{"id":392569,"date":"2022-06-16T05:01:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T05:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=392569"},"modified":"2022-06-16T05:01:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T05:01:19","slug":"aljamain-sterling-gets-his-wish-set-to-face-tj-dillashaw-next-in-september-at-ufc-279","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/aljamain-sterling-gets-his-wish-set-to-face-tj-dillashaw-next-in-september-at-ufc-279\/","title":{"rendered":"Aljamain Sterling Gets His Wish; Set to Face TJ Dillashaw Next in September at UFC 279"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aljamain Sterling stamped his authority on the bantamweight division with a win over Petr Yan at UFC 273. \u2018Funkmaster\u2019 won the belt the first time he faced \u2018No Mercy\u2019 at UFC 259. However, Petr Yan\u2019s infamous knee to Sterling, while he was grounded cost him his title as he was disqualified.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The promotion immediately tried to book a rematch between the two men, which did not happen as \u2018Funkmaster\u2019 opted to undergo surgery for his back, which had been plaguing him with issues for a long time. The surgery meant that Sterling would be out for a long period of time during which the UFC set up an interim title fight between Cory Sandhagen and Petr Yan. Upon his return, Sterling was booked for a rematch against Petr Yan. And as he said he would, \u2018Funkmaster\u2019 secured the win by displaying his superior grappling and wrestling skills.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It depends if Henry steps up to the plate or not. Where you at you little munchkin?! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AX6GDJrlps\">https:\/\/t.co\/AX6GDJrlps<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aljamain Sterling (@funkmasterMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/funkmasterMMA\/status\/1537281552610119680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the win, Sterling called out TJ Dillashaw to be his first title defense. The former bantamweight champion was in attendance for <a href=\"https:\/\/ufc.com\/\">UFC<\/a> 273 and witnessed firsthand Sterling\u2019s impressive performance. Recent reports suggest that a title fight between the two is close to being finalized for UFC 279 in September. \u2018Funkmaster\u2019 replied to the announcement of the fight saying, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt depends if Henry steps up to the plate or not. Where you at, you little munchkin?!\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:-<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/sean-omalley-reveals-his-7-figure-ambition-in-the-ufc\/\">Sean O\u2019Malley Reveals His 7-Figure Ambition in the UFC<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>A closer look at TJ Dillashaw vs Aljamain Sterling\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TJ Dillashaw is a bona fide great in the UFC\u2019s bantamweight division, he has wins over some of the biggest names in the weight class. After his two-year suspension, he came back to secure an impressive win over Cory Sandhagen despite suffering a serious knee injury within the first two rounds of the fight.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-386075 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/04\/image01-9.jpg\" alt=\"Aljamain Sterling\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/04\/image01-9.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/04\/image01-9-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/04\/image01-9-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/04\/image01-9-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Going into the fight, the defending champion with have a four-inch reach advantage over his counterpart. Arguably, Dillashaw is the better striker of the two which is why Sterling will look to get the fight on the ground as soon as possible. But that will be easier said that done given Dillashaw\u2019s wrestling background and the fact that he has a 86% takedown defense rate.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aljamain Sterling stamped his authority on the bantamweight division with a win over Petr Yan at UFC 273. \u2018Funkmaster\u2019 won the belt the first time he faced \u2018No Mercy\u2019 at UFC 259. However, Petr Yan\u2019s infamous knee to Sterling, while he was grounded cost him his title as he was disqualified.\u00a0 The promotion immediately tried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":392571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}