MMA Fighting<\/a>. \u201cI can\u2019t see anybody else who can do that for him. I\u2019ve beaten just about everybody in this weight class or fought everybody in this weight class just to get to this position. I\u2019ve had 13 UFC fights, this is going to be my 14th fight, finally getting the title shot. He\u2019s had seven fights and the guys he\u2019s fought, in terms of the caliber of opponents, I\u2019ve been in that top five gauntlet for quite a bit now.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"Aljamain](\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/aljamain-sterling-2-640x360.jpg\")
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Aljamain Sterling continued where he suggested that Petr Yan has been getting off easy by fighting old men.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know he\u2019s a bad dude. But at the end of the day, he\u2019s beaten up a lot of old men and he has to beat a young lion still,\u201d Sterling suggested. \u201cI think for him he wants to prove this more than anything and I think that\u2019s his driving factor. To prove he really is the champion. For me, it\u2019s to prove he\u2019s been the paper champ this entire time and the real champ was the guy who fought Cory Sandhagen and finished the fight in under two minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n
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