Aljamain Sterling will risk his undisputed Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweight crown when he faces Sean O’Malley on Saturday in Boston.
also had a fair share of people saying they believed the challenger won. At this point, it is unclear what else Sterling can do from a resume standpoint to earn his flowers outside of scoring a definitive win over a contender in his prime. To that end, the opportunity is there for that to happen against O’Malley, though things could also go horribly wrong.
O’Malley has seemingly been preordained by the UFC for stardom since the promotion signed him six years ago, and to their credit, both fighter and promotion have done their work to get him to viable title challenger status. “Sugar Sean” was one of the standouts of the first season of Dana White’s Contender Series, thanks to his personality inside the cage and his fighting style, built around landing some impressive knockouts.
This is an excellent pairing between two obviously high-level bantamweights that also have a number of questions to answer. For O’Malley, that is simply because the Yan performance was such a step up from what he had shown previously, while Sterling has not faced much in the way of tall strikers—the closest port is Sandhagen, and that fight quickly went to the ground and was over within a minute and a half.
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