Interim UFC bantamweight champion, Petr Yan, is looking to put a definitive end to his rivalry with current UFC bantamweight champion, Aljamain Sterling, in their rematch at UFC 273 this Saturday night.
Yan spoke with journalist Ariel Helwani on the latest edition of his show The MMA Hour and believes after he defeats Sterling this weekend, the loss will remain in his rival's head and all the 32-year old Uniondale, New York native will have left to do is act like a clown.
“Just imagine, he’s tired of thinking about me, and I didn’t even think about him at all,” Yan said (h/t MMA Fighting). “He had this long layoff, I had a different opponent. I fought, and now he’s my next target that I’m gonna beat up. After the fight Saturday night, everybody is gonna forget about him. That clown will be forgotten. I think he [won’t] be able to do it; I think he wouldn’t be able to take me down. The stuff he said, it’s just gonna stay in his head, it’s gonna stay his dream. He’s a clown. Everything he has to do is just talk, and after the fight, if he comes to your show, all that’s gonna be left is for him to talk.”
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