Many of Aljamain Sterling’s often soft-spoken opponents have gotten lippy with him and Sterling believes he knows why.
Sterling gives his take on verbal sparring with opponents like Cody Stamann, Jimmie Rivera, and — most recently — Pedro Munhoz in an exclusive interview with Bloody Elbow. “I think they all have hard-ons for me. I think they see me, they see the confidence, and the want to be that. I guess they’ve never seen me in a tough fight,” he says. “They might feel I’m not as tough as I look or talk — I don’t know what it is — but at the end of the day I can’t control how they feel about me.