{"id":119842,"date":"2025-09-05T03:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T03:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/119842\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T03:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T03:27:07","slug":"aljamain-sterling-wants-to-know-who-is-being-a-weasel-among-mma-managers-amid-fighter-settlement-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/119842\/","title":{"rendered":"Aljamain Sterling wants “to know who is being a weasel” among MMA managers amid fighter settlement payments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aljamain Sterling evidently has no problem holding MMA managers accountable for their shortcomings and isn\u2019t shy about putting MMA referees on blast, either. This references a recent instance where the 36-year-old found himself frustrated with overseeing referee Herb Dean during Sterling\u2019s dominant performance that saw him secure a win over Brian Ortega<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Delving deeper into details on why Dean got under his skin at UFC Shanghai<\/a> during his recent catchweight contest, when in an appearance on Uncrowned\u2019s The Ariel Helwani Show, Sterling said [via Uncrowned<\/a>],<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I talk about someone coming in the backroom and giving the fighters rule meeting and having almost like the most dismissive attitude, and just not wanting to even be there to do the meeting, that\u2019s a red flag. And I think that just kind of signals, maybe you\u2019re not having as much fun doing this as you used to. Maybe with the popularity, you feel like you\u2019re too big for the sport, to always want to get so involved in a fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never seen someone get hurt [like Sterling saw in the final round of his co-main event Ortega clash] and Herb yells at them to engage in a fight when he\u2019s right there, seeing that the person just got hurt. Then, when you hurt the other guy, he says absolutely nothing when the other guy is doing the same exact thing for literally 34 seconds. I\u2019ve counted this to make sure I\u2019m not being biased.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know, man. I get a takedown, Brian ties up my arms in almost like this rubber guard position, and [Dean] is yelling at me to work. I said something to him in the middle of the fight, I\u2019m like, \u2018Well, tell him to open up his guard!\u2019 What am I supposed to do?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you were a former fighter, how are you not understanding these positions? If you\u2019re going to say something to me, say something to him too. Obviously [Brian Ortega] wants the fight to stand up, so I understand Brian, what he\u2019s doing, but you can\u2019t fault me when I can\u2019t get my arm out. I\u2019m just supposed to make a mistake?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aljamain Sterling evidently has no problem holding MMA managers accountable for their shortcomings and isn\u2019t shy about putting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[33438,64,63,786,785,85,787,63222],"class_list":{"0":"post-119842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-aljamain-sterling","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc","15":"tag-ufc-shanghai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}