UFC commentator Daniel Cormier has some advice for the promotion’s new bantamweight champion, Aljamain Sterling: Step away from the Internet.<\/p>\n
Sterling returned to the cage at UFC 259 last weekend, when he challenged Petr Yan for the bantamweight title. Regrettably, this fight ended in disaster when Yan blasted Sterling with an illegal knee. When Sterling was unable to continue, he was named the victor by disqualification, which meant that he became the new champion\u2014but under pretty unfortunate circumstances.<\/p>\n
Since then, Sterling has been the subject of widespread criticism<\/a>, with many fans and pundits questioning his status as champion\u2014and so far, he’s been quite willing to engage his naysayers online.<\/p>\n \u201cI just saw the one from Ariel Helwani and [Cormier] talking about I\u2019m parading around and boasting a belt,” Sterling told MMA Fighting<\/a> after the fight. “One, show me one post on my social media where I\u2019m boasting about winning anything or celebrating anything,\u201d Sterling said. \u201cI\u2019m happy my friends came to my house, had about 30-plus people at my house. They were all excited to see me. I didn\u2019t even see the belt because I left it in the octagon. Somehow it showed up at my house, they brought it over while I\u2019m eating chicken, you can see I\u2019m licking my fingers and they\u2019re like \u2018open it\u2019 and I\u2019m like I really don\u2019t want to do this.<\/p>\n \u201cAlso, there\u2019s about 30 cameras out so they\u2019re all expecting this big reaction from me to be like \u2018I\u2019m the champ.\u2019 Yeah they\u2019re like \u2018just celebrate it, you earned this, please bro, just enjoy the night, you worked so hard.\u2019 I get all that but I don\u2019t feel like a winner,” Sterling added. “They\u2019re there, they want to take a picture with me holding the belt. I don\u2019t feel like the champ but if you guys feel this is going to make you guys feel happy or whatever, just know that I\u2019m not posting any of this, I\u2019m not re-posting any of this cause I don\u2019t feel like I did anything.\u201d<\/p>\n It didn’t take Cormier long to catch wind of this comment from Sterling, and he responded with a piece of advice for the new bantamweight champion.<\/p>\n . Young brother @funkmasterMMA<\/a> just get off the internet bro. You don\u2019t need to explain, it isn\u2019t helping. We will talk, it\u2019s what we do. You have to just leave it alone! Enjoy your time, recover, spend time with your family and just relax. Can\u2019t fight every battle https:\/\/t.co\/kjozYw3Wxy<\/a><\/p>\n — Daniel Cormier (@dc_mma) March 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n