MOSCOW, Apr 14. The champion of the Absolute Fighting Championship (UFC) in the bantamweight Aljamain Sterling spoke unflatteringly about the judge John McCarthy, who worked at UFC 273 and was the judge in the duel of the American against the Russian Petr Yan. It was previously reported that McCarthy was the only one of the three judges who last weekend gave the victory to an athlete from Russia. As a result, the victory by a split decision went to the representative of the United States.
"Never judge the first five minutes of the fight like McCarthy. He has no idea what he's talking about. And I have no idea how he could set the standards of MMA, because he is a complete idiot. His opinion stinks, it sucks… With a smart look, he talks all sorts of nonsense so that people think: "But he understands something". You know, he also has an MMA school, there are also fighters — why didn’t any of them achieve anything? What do they even do there? <…> So please be quiet. Let the big boys do their thing at the highest level — what you have not achieved. Relax, mate", — said the athlete on the YouTube channel The Hour MMA.
At the moment, Sterling is on a series of seven wins.