Former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fighter Oleg Taktarov advised Petr Yan before the fight against Aljamain Sterling.
“You don’t need a nice victory, you just need to win, that’s all. When you really want and he wants to win, the danger of making mistakes increases greatly. Sterling is not a whipping boy, although he may look like that in the first fight, ”Taktarov wrote on social networks.
The fight will take place on the night of April 10. Yan already faced Sterling in March 2021 and lost the championship belt to him due to disqualification. In the fourth round, he dealt an illegal blow to the American, as a result of which he suffered a defeat and was stripped of his title. Petr won the interim UFC title by beating American Corey Sandhagen by unanimous decision in October. The Russian takes the ninth place in the official UFC rankings among the best fighters, regardless of weight category.
Pavel Gordeev, previously a fighter of the club “Archangel Michael” shared his opinion Petr Yan, the Russian holder of the UFC interim belt, will fight in seconds in the title fight against the promotion’s American champion, Aljamain Sterling.