“His weakness is that he doesn’t have a clinch game,” “Mighty Mouse” said on another edition of The MMA Hour program. “I’d eat him for breakfast in the clinch. I feel the rhythm, move on my feet better than he does. As far as grappling goes, he’s taller than me and I would never let him take my back. Everyone else he entangles his legs, closes a triangle on the body like he did to Peter Yan, and they have to survive”
“What’s more, I don’t have to shorten the distance with him – he’ll do it himself. He pokes with his jab, throws a leg kick that looks more like a kick, and comes over. Great – come here and I’ll show you a thing called a muay thai clinch. I feel like I’m going to eat him alive.”
As a reminder, the ONE Championship League’s lightest division features fighters up to 135 pounds (61 kg), which is the UFC’s lightest weight class.
A title fight between Aljamain Sterling and Sean O’Malley will headline UFC 292 in Boston on August 19.