UFC bantamweight contender Marlon Vera recently put reigning champion Aljamain Sterling on blast over Sterling’s pre-fight prep. For ‘Chito,’ cutting a large amount of weight—as Sterling seems to do—is just another form of “cheating.”
“I think he’s too big to make the weight class,” Vera told Michael Bisping and Anthony Smith in a recent episode of the Believe You Me Podcast. “Cutting that much weight is cheating to me.
“You’re kind of like a pussy to cut that much weight because you want to be bigger, stronger. Because he really doesn’t hurt nobody, but he makes you carry his weight, take you down…”
Sterling recently posted a video on social media, showing him tipping the scales at 176 pounds.