This is the UFC 259 live blog for Petr Yan vs. Aljamain Sterling, a bantamweight title fight on on Saturday’s fight card at UFC APEX in Las Vegas.
Yan attempts the first defense of his bantamweight title after capturing the belt vacated by former two-division champ Henry Cejudo. The 28-year-old Russian dominated Jose Aldo in his most recent outing, earning a fifth-round stoppage of the former featherweight kingpin this past July at UFC 251. Yan hasn’t lost a fight in nearly five years and is 15-1 as a professional, picking up seven of his wins in the octagon.