Aljamain Sterling labels his performance at UFC 300 as the most dominant.
Sterling (24-4 MMA, 16-4 UFC) outgrappled Calvin Kattar (23-8 MMA, 7-6 UFC) en route to a lopsided unanimous decision win, making good on his featherweight debut.
Kattar only landed 19 total strikes in the fight, was taken down eight times, and was controlled for over 10 minutes.
“Don’t get me wrong – our fight on that particular night of UFC 300 was not the most entertaining, but it was the most dominant fight I think you could have possibly looked at from the entire card from top to bottom,” Sterling said on his YouTube channel.
“I think I’m arguably the top three most dominant on that entire fight card. So when you look at that, I think to keep it in perspective is you’ve got a guy who’s on average, lands, I think, about four or five strikes per minute, like significant strikes, who was reduced to about 0.5 or something like that over 15 minutes.”
The former bantamweight champion is aware his fight may have not been the most crowd pleasing, but says shutting out Kattar’s striking game entirely has to account for something.
“(Kattar is) a guy who went tooth and nail with (Max Holloway), a guy that went toe-to-toe with Giga Chikadze, arguably won against Josh Emmett, had a great performance against a guy who’s knocking guys out left to right in Dan Ige, knocked out Shane Burgos, (beat) Andre Fili,” Sterling said.
“His resume of how dangerous he is goes on and on and on. So for me to use my skill set against his and to reduce him from being someone who’s that dangerous to literally no threat whatsoever. I think it deserves a little bit of credit in that regard.”
Aljamain Sterling: I had ‘the most dominant fight’ on UFC 300