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Aljamain Sterling Believes He Deserves Some Credit for T.J. Dillashaw’s Injury at UFC 280

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Aljamain Sterling wasn’t a fan of T.J. Dillashaw’s attempt to take some of the shine from his second bantamweight title defense at UFC 280.

After Sterling’s second-round technical knockout win in the evening’s co-main event at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, Dillashaw revealed that he suffered a shoulder injury earlier this year and that it popped out at least 20 times during that process of training camp.

“For him to go out and do that, I think it just kind of shows his personality,” Sterling said at Saturday’s post-fight press conference. “And I said it before, for a guy who needs to do PEDs, they have a chink in the armor for this guy to lose and the first thing he went for was that.