Henry Cejudo celebrates after defeating Dominick Cruz in their bantamweight title fight during UFC 249 at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena on May 09, 2020 in Jacksonville, Florida. (Photo by Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images)
Aljamain Sterling and Henry Cejudo have been at loggerheads with each other since Sterling’s DQ win over Petr Yan at UFC 259
Sterling became the first fighter in UFC history to win a championship via. disqualification when he faced Petr Yan at UFC 259. An illegal knee from Yan on a grounded Sterling meant that the fight and eventually his bantamweight title was awarded to the Jamaican.
Sterling appeared concussed as he kept sinking to the canvas due to the impact received from Yan’s knee. However he then got back on his feet when he was awarded the title.
Later that day, Sterling was heavily criticized by almost everyone in the MMA community for overplaying Yan’s illegal knee. And one among them was retired, former two-division champion Henry Cejudo.
‘Triple C’ was very vocal about the way Sterling reacted to Yan’s illegal knee, accusing him of putting on an ‘Academy award winning’ level performance.
The pair’s rivalry intensified once again this week, as Cejudo quote Tweeted a GIF of Sterling sinking to the canvas, which had a sarcastic caption aimed at Triple C.
Cejudo captioned it calling it the academy award performance for the best picture.
An agitated Funk Master replied that he would school Cejudo once his injury is cleared.
Sterling wrote:
“Winning** I keep forgetting you never went to school. But I can take you to school once my injury is cleared, my son. It’s nothing but a text to Dana. You know this.”
And, Cejudo decided to have a further go at the bantamweight champ saying that he didn’t deserve that extra letter, while calling him a wiener.
Number 2 ranked bantamweight Cory Sandhagen just had his main event bout against TJ Dillashaw on the 8th of May, cancelled. Dillashaw pulled out of the fight due to a cut above his eye.
Sandhagen believes Petr Yan would easily get the better of Aljamain Sterling in the rematch. Speaking in an interview with MMA Junkie, he supported his claim with what had happened in the previous match.
Sandhagen said Sterling was clearly losing on all fronts, when the fight ended due to a disqualification.
He further stated that Sterling was not able to dominate Yan despite coming at him with all his skillsets.
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