Aljamain Sterling: Sean O'Malley not that big of a draw, and title fight 'ain't going to be in freaking Boston'
UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling isn’t sold on Sean O'Malley ’s star power. Sterling (23-3 MMA, 15-3 UFC) is expected to defend his title against O’Malley next. After he retained his bantamweight title against Henry Cejudo in this past Saturday’s UFC 288 headliner, Sterling called O’Malley into the octagon for a faceoff. O’Malley (16-1 MMA, 8-1 UFC) declared himself the biggest draw in the bantamweight division, but Sterling says nothing points to that. “Sean O’Malley is definitely the No. 1 contender, so he’s going to get the next fight. But he’s not this big draw that he thinks he is,” Sterling said. “If he was as big of a draw as he says he was, he would have done bigger numbers than Bo Nickal did on (Dana White’s) Contender Series. I think we all know that’s not the case. So in his universe, he thinks he’s this big guy. But this is the Aljamain Sterling show.” Sterling also doesn’t get the appeal behind O’Malley’s character, and questions what makes him a star....