LAS VEGAS – Aljamain Sterling took an early career cue from Jon Jones, and displayed flashes of the light heavyweight champion’s influence in his octagon debut. Sterling, long and lanky like Jones but much smaller at bantamweight, fended off short-notice replacement Cody Gibson with kicks and dominated the majority of ground exchanges to win a unanimous decision. The bantamweight bout was part of the preliminary card of today’s UFC 170 event at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. It aired on FOX Sports 1 following additional prelims on UFC Fight Pass and ahead of a main card on pay-per-view. Sterling, whom Jones originally invited to New York’s Team BombSquad via Myspace and later moved to Serra-Longo Fight Team, kept Gibson on his toes early with flashy leg attacks
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