“Triple zero next, 110 percent,” Sterling told The Schmo. “However, it will not be April, but May. May the best man win, but I feel like that person will always be me. I see a TKO victory in the second round, and after I finish Henry Cejudo, I will have nothing to do in the bantamweight division. Except maybe a money fight with Sean O’Malley, who doesn’t want to fight with the top division because he’s not ready to take on their grappling. And I understand this – now I would just move it. So maybe this fight will interest me or I will go to featherweight and let Merab Dvalishvili set a reign of terror over the rest of the guys in the bantamweight division.”
Two days earlier, the American fighter announced that he would soon go to Colombia, where in one of the clinics he would try to heal an injured bicep with a course of stem cell injections.
The title fight was originally supposed to take place on March 4 at UFC 285 in Las Vegas, but a week ago, informed sources said that the fight would be rescheduled and will take place on April 8 at UFC 287.