Rewatch the full fight between Sean O’Malley and Aljamain Sterling ahead of O’Malley’s first title defense at UFC 299 on March 9th.
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[Applause] okay gentlemen you both understand the rules you f you listen to me all times keep yourself protected when I tell you to stop you stop if you want to God bless wow they want to fight yeah Mark otter couldn’t even finish if you want to tell gloves sha Al’s first UFC Championship
Opportunity has arrived the bostonians will be behind him tonight against the New Yorker the champ Alain [Applause] Sterling oh Al’s in the green Sterling in the black and gold befitting a champion I thought om Ali looked nervous on the walk but once he got into the
Octagon he looked sure I take it back maybe it’s it’s about just seeing that guy in front of you they stared each other down the whole time they met at the center of the Octagon before the introductions even started I cannot wait for this one oh Ali looks physically
Strong hard to look that way against Sterling but he has certainly added muscle mass over the [Applause] years Alain Under Pressure right away trying to make Shawn throw something so he could level change Sha’s a master at throwing faints Aldo’s trying to set a trap here
Push him toward the side of the Octagon so that he can [Applause] shoot Ali attacks the body there Ali faints at you to try to draw out reactions and when you give him the reactions he’s expecting then he starts to Mi picks up his strikes he has that
Wicked front kick to the body that he will utilize as well especially cuz alamain tends to stand [Applause] [Applause] Square I think one of om Ali’s biggest gifts is his ability to change angles and change directions he’s never on a straight line he’s constantly moving it’ll be on
Sterling to try to trap him so that he can get to him om Al is doing a really good job though keeping his back to the center of the [Applause] octagon [Applause] couple reactions from Sterling on the faints of Ali here in the early [Applause] [Applause] going good defensive Movement by Ali to
Avoid that leg strike of Sterling and now Ali effectively to the body yeah there’s that front kick we were talking about he’ll utilize that a lot good inside low kick by The Champ and again and again Aldo’s doing a good job of kicking inside the leg when om Ali goes south [Applause]
Ball nice inside leg kick for Sterling land couple those over and over he’s going there when Ali changes his stance [Applause] Al is drawing some big reactions out of Sterling when he faints at him Aldo’s got to be very careful well Alo is seing that speed [Applause] now Sean is so
Accurate and he looks very composed here in his first championship title fight not making any real mist SES yep very efficient and this is Sha’s first five round fight it’ll be interesting to see if this thing gets to the championship rounds but at this pace it’s not like
They’re putting that much out there right now but here we are 50 seconds to get to go try scoring this yeah it’s hard yeah what do you I mean what do you what do you see right it’s been the front kick of Ali and the leg kicks Alaine Sterling
I mean this is a as close to an even round as you’re ever going to see eight leg kicks for Sterling he has yet to land a head strike in this opening [Applause] [Applause] round there’s a shot first takedown attempt of sorts comes late in the round for
Sterling om all’s doing a good job defending this was Alaine Tred to get close and do this land some shots in the clinch but in a very close round this could take it yep absolutely well look at the numbers now all of a sudden all those shots are in
Close it was literally 8 to six yep and now 216 thr all right both Corners largely like the work out of their guys in round one here we go round two just a very close round and hard to score I would imagine Alo won it at the
End yes at the end with the clinch strikes but he asked his corner and they said they thought he wanted at the end of the round but very close don’t do that don’t do that please what did he do Mark otter warning Tim Welch for some
Sort of verbal they said he was talking to Alo earlier leg attack for Alaine Sterling here om Ali doing a good job of attacking his wrists we saw Leon Edwards do the same thing against Kamar Usman attack the far wrist not allowing your opponent to get to a taked down wow he
Got out of it nicely done good jab by Sterling but perhaps that shot late in round one was to get a feel for what a might be like early round two Sterling un oh Sterling in a world of [Applause] trouble Ohi trying to close it out here that will do it the sug
Theall and new bamwe chip wow suar sh Ali wow it’s the angles guys the way that he moves and pivots he sets you up wow wow sha Elli is the UFC bantamweight champion the Starling rain ends tonight in Boston wow it’s his ability to set guys up
Please when we go through the replay you’ll watch how he gets off the center line and lands that shot Beautiful by Ali the sugar show Sha Ali welcome to super stardom wow wow and for him to go to the next level it had to look like that and it absolutely did
Wow just wow I want to see it again Alain Sterling had won nine consecutive fights he had run rough shot through the bantamweight division it now belongs to Shan Ali that’s crazy let’s see it again aljo rushes look look at that Joe I mean just slides out of the way just drops
Him it looked like Alo was still moving I was kind of surprised at the stoppage that right hand was fantastic though look at this I’d like to see the final finishing sequence look at this right hand though look at the timing behind this look at this picture
Perfect and then swarms him with hammer fists hit him with some big shots boom it stiffened aljo aljo tried to roll to a leg turned up but he was still moving he was he was I mean look it’s it’s a great stoppage but you want to give the champion a chance to
Recover but man what a picture perfect right hand by Sha it was perfect and the atmosphere in this TD Garden is just insane right now DC this is absolutely wild I mean when when you get you get to be a part of star making performances that’s exactly what you just saw you
Just saw sha Ali go to the next level he lands a beautiful right hand against al Jermaine Sterling the best bandwe of all time and he finishes him there is nothing like a guy having an opportunity and then cashing it in that way tremendous by the young man hey second
Champion from the contender series and a guy that since day one people thought he could be here he’s an absolute sniper that right hand couldn’t have been a whole lot cleaner and he came out to the song that said if you are what you say
You are a superstar he is that in Spades to make it official here’s Bruce ladies and Gent gentleman referee Mark Gard has called a stop to this contest at 51 seconds of round number two declaring the winner by gko and no Undisputed UFC bantamweight champion of the world Shar Sean o [Applause] y
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2:05 Aljo could’ve went for a single leg right there
Two talented athletes that's for sure
Good fight but the gay beer sigh on the screen could good
Sterling seemed super confident going into this fight lmao I’m glad he got rocked
Kam nai kela tohot boxing ot ahh kela
Grande Chito Vera… Todas las defesa del título de O'malley será una churreteadera de aburrimientos…
ОMalley hubsche knokaut , gezeigt an affe das kletern auf palmen ist das nicht alles was er kann😂
bro😂 was that steve in the crowd that handed him a happy dad?😭😭😭
Surely Sugar is Champ.! What a road
Lads sterling was fucked! If the fight went on for another 5 or 10 seconds o malley would of landed at least onother 5 punches
Who else is here after Chito got his cheecks clapped in the rematch.
Sean is a fucking BEAST!! Loved watching him grow and mature!
Dude just pressed "random" on the character generation screen.
Шон совершил,то что не удалось Яну. Крутяк❤
No recovery was coming. He rolled to his back. Did you need a back mount and rear naked choke or more ground in pound? Dude was in outerspace from back drop straight right.
Looked like aldo vs conor
Yeah he got punched over 10 times no blocks no striking back and then he turns over and gives O’Malley the back of his head so realistically if he kept the fight going sterling would have just kept getting punched in the head 😂
Savage
Cosmo and Wanda ain't fooling no body.
Щас все бои в юфс такие? Полчаса танцев по октагону бред
this is not UFC 299 but 292
What happened to Cosmo and Wanda?
Sterling was still trying to survive and was still moving. I think it was a little bit early stoppage. Respect to Aljo for accepting the defeat like a man without saying any excuses nor complaining about the stoppage. I became only a fan to Aljo after this fight. He displayed good sportsmanship and showed his good character with this defeat.
He did that for real
Stop was uncalled for Joe called it he still had a chance.
Aljo would’ve gotten up if he had a few more seconds without ref stopping
He said, "I'll find your chin"
This young man has a gift. God Bless Sean. He’s centered. I’m so impressed with his humility. ❤🙏
He ain't no real champion the ref gave that to him you can see if when they call the fight how he let his hand go he had planned to call that fight the moment Sean was winning he stole dude title
Just a part of a punch, but the longer the distance a fist travels the more power it generates. That's why long & skinny arms do the damage they do. He has the snap, too.
Strange stoppage didnt stop it when he went out for a split sec waited till he was bettering his position.
The counter, right straight to the chin of Sterling
Man Sterlings first round was very clean too. He just mistook an advantage with that takedown attempt in the second. You can see his body language change a lot after he landed a couple shots when Sean’s back was to the cage. First round he was bouncing around, slipping and keeping distance. But after that tussle on the cage he just stood there in front of Sean, head leaned forward, not moving at all, just waiting for a big counter. He got too excited and opened himself up to a big counter. It’s like he started stalking his opponent before they were ever even compromised. It’s odd to see that amount of overconfidence in real time from a champion tbh.
Did he say Aljo was the best bantamweight of all time?
"When my opponent retracts, I expand. It hits all by itself"