MMA News Round-Up: Sergei Pavlovich Took an Unnamed Dig at Jon Jones; Israel Adesanya Revealed Opinions About His Time in Chinese Promotions; Aljamain Sterling Bashed Henry Cejudo With NSFW Iteration

The past 24 hours in the MMA world didn’t disappoint the fans, as they received a lot of noteworthy incidents to talk about. But the numerous happenings might have caused some fans to miss out on a few important headlines. But you don’t need to worry, as we are back with our MMA news roundup. We’ll provide you with an insight into a few eye-catching MMA world events from the last 24 hours.

Today, after starting off with the UFC Heavyweight, Sergei Pavlovich’s dig at his possible next opponent, we’ll also know about what the current UFC Middleweight champ, Israel Adesanya, had to say about his tenure in Chinese fight promotions. Lastly, we’ll take a look at the current UFC Bantamweight champ, Aljamain Sterling’s sly dig at for his next opponent, to wrap things up for the day.

Sergei Pavlovich fired one more shot at his probable next opponent Jon Jones

The UFC world had been pretty vocal about granting the Russian, Sergei Pavlovich, a Heavyweight title shot post his superb first-round victory at UFC Vegas 71. Needless to say, Pavlovich also views himself as worthy of a title shot which might have triggered his recent tweet where he took a dig at the current UFC Heavyweight champ, Jon Jones.

Pavlovich collaged the snaps of his final blows from all his six knockout wins in the UFC. Also, his caption read, “I’m sure one person is looking at this right now and is very worried”.

Although the Russian didn’t mention ‘Bones’ in his tweet, the UFC audience probably is intelligent enough to pick out that his tweet was directed towards Jones only. However, there was no response from ‘Bones’ regarding this issue. Do you think that Jones will respond to Pavlovich and get in a Twitter war with him?

Israel Adesanya revealed how fighting in “dirty” Chinese promotions helped him

Israel Adesanya had been through multiple fight promotions prior to his UFC joining. ‘Izzy’ had also spent quite some time fighting for Chinese promotions as well. Recently in an interview, he revealed how the dirty tactics of Chinese promotions actually proved to be a blessing in disguise for him.

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Adesanya appeared on the YouTube podcast of ‘Emilio Urrutia’ and revealed the “dirty” tactics of Chinese promotions. He revealed how the fighters were instructed to take an extensive tour of the city before the weigh-ins. This was done on purpose to wear the fighters down before their fights.

But ‘Izzy’ also stated how “The experience, fighting constantly, forcing myself to be in uncomfortable situations” helped him become tougher. He also revealed, “When I came back[to New Zealand] that’s when I smoked King in the Ring for the first time, second, third time, and started f***ing everybody up,”

It was apparent that despite hating those “dirty” tactics at that moment, ‘The Last Stylebender’ had finally realized their worth. What are your views about the alleged “dirty” tactics that the Chinese promotions apply to their fighters?

Aljamain Sterling went rogue while bashing his next scheduled opponent Henry Cejudo

A lot of UFC fans have been counting the hours for the upcoming UFC 288 eagerly. However, things have already started heating up even prior to the event. Recently, the UFC 288 main eventer, Aljamain Sterling, went explicit while firing a shot at his touted opponent, Henry Cejudo.

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A number of UFC fans might already know that Cejudo is also a former Olympic gold medalist in wrestling. However, ‘The Funk Master’ used this very achievement of ‘Triple C’ to fire at him. In a recent interview with ‘MMA Fighting, Sterling gave out an NSFW sentence for his next opponent.

He said, “I can’t wait to go out there and take that gold medal and shove it up his a** and hand him a nice ‘L’ for his efforts”.

Well, only time has the answer to whether Sterling will be able to materialize his words or not. What do you think?