Welcome to the big time, Aljamain Sterling.
There were glimmers of his potential before, but never had they been converted so kinetically as they were Saturday night at UFC on Fox 15. Sterling pushed the pace against a respected and successful UFC veteran in Takeya Mizugaki, never giving the more seasoned fighter the space to initiate his offense.
In the clinch, with takedowns and finally on the ground, Sterling smothered the will to compete out of Mizugaki and finally locked up the win with an arm-triangle choke from bottom position—a feat that requires major amounts of skill and strength, as evidenced by its near-unprecedented nature in UFC history.