{"id":392874,"date":"2022-06-18T04:01:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T04:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=392874"},"modified":"2022-06-18T04:01:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T04:01:22","slug":"aljamain-sterling-suggests-fight-with-tj-dillashaw-is-not-a-done-deal-reveals-his-fight-purse-for-his-fight-against-petr-yan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/aljamain-sterling-suggests-fight-with-tj-dillashaw-is-not-a-done-deal-reveals-his-fight-purse-for-his-fight-against-petr-yan\/","title":{"rendered":"Aljamain Sterling Suggests Fight With TJ Dillashaw Is Not a Done Deal; Reveals His Fight Purse for His Fight Against Petr Yan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling defended his belt for the first time earlier this year against arch-rival Petr Yan with an impressive display of grappling and wrestling prowess. For the better part of a year, Sterling was on the receiving end of endless trolling from fans as they did not recognize him as the legitimate champion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few days back, reports suggested that Sterling\u2019s next title defense was close to being a done deal. TJ Dillashaw for UFC 279 in September is what the reports suggested was next for \u2018Funkmaster\u2019. However, in a recent video on his channel, Sterling further light onto the truth behind his next fight.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:-<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/aljamain-sterling-gets-his-wish-set-to-face-tj-dillashaw-next-in-september-at-ufc-279\/\">Aljamain Sterling Gets His Wish; Set to Face TJ Dillashaw Next in September at UFC 279<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Aljamain Sterling breaks his silence over recent reports of a title fight<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said, \u201cThere\u2019s no fight until there\u2019s ink on paper, and as of right now, my contract is exactly the same. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cUsually, when it\u2019s not a title fight, when you win a fight, there\u2019s an escalator. There has been no escalator in this fight. I\u2019d like to think that I played my part, did the right things and even allowed myself to be the bad guy in the last outing with Petr Yan, and help play up the storyline.\u201d<\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hvJO52ueglI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Funkmaster\u2019 continued,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cAs of right now, I\u2019m training, hoping that we come to some type of agreement to give some type of pay bump \u2013 which naturally happens in all the contracts. For me, I want to make sure we get the deal right before we just jump into another fight. Because at the end of the day, I climbed through the ranks, I worked my ass off, and I played my position in terms of helping to promote the fights, which a lot of these guys don\u2019t even do. I\u2019m here to be a company man, and at the same time, I want to look out for my best interests. There\u2019s a fine line where there\u2019s a balance where getting both of those done can happen.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the video, Sterling also mentioned that he was paid $400,000 for his title defense against Petr Yan. This figure does not include the PPV bonuses that get added onto his purse. Needless to say, that is an extremely small amount for a champion in the <a href=\"https:\/\/ufc.com\/\">UFC<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling defended his belt for the first time earlier this year against arch-rival Petr Yan with an impressive display of grappling and wrestling prowess. For the better part of a year, Sterling was on the receiving end of endless trolling from fans as they did not recognize him as the legitimate [&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-392874","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\/392874","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=392874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392874\/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=392874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}