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Former UFC Bantamweight Champion Aljamain Sterling may not be on the best of terms with the UFC at the moment.
The fighter has now found success at featherweight and he wants to know when he is getting a featherweight title shot.
“I’ve been with the company since 2014, been calling my shot, defending the belt the most in the bantamweight division,” Sterling said at the said at the RAF post-fight press conference (transcript via Sayan Nag of Sherdog). “Give me my f——ing shot. I deserve a shot at the title, OG vs OG. I’m smarter than all these dumb motherf—-ers out there… Diego Lopes gets a f—-ng rematch, and he goes out there and fights worse after actually doing decent in the first fight. He can’t figure out how to do a lateral step to cut the cage.”
Sterling has gone 2-1-0 since moving up to featherweight, defeating Calvin Kattar and Brian Ortega.
One thing Sterling firmly believes is that the UFC is hoping he starts losing more fights.
“You want to give me Yair Rodriguez? I’ll fight him,” Sterling said. “You want to give me Jean Silva? I’ll fight him. You gonna give me Youssef Zalal? I’ll fight him. I’ve never turned down anybody. These guys have asked me for opponents who I want to fight, and then they give me somebody complete opposite. Because they want to see me lose. That’s my perspective.”
