Bantamweight fighter Aljamain Sterling , after defeating Johnny Eduardo at UFC Fight Night 80 in early December, became one of the hottest properties on the free agent market. On Monday, he revealed that he had foregone solid offers from Bellator and World Series of Fighting to re-sign with the UFC . “We’re back (fighting for the UFC),” Sterling revealed on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour . “The contract was a lot more lucrative than the original (UFC) offer. In terms of the up front money, the back end money, and becoming the champ,” he said in explaining why he had re-upped with the UFC instead of following in the footsteps of Benson Henderson, who recently left the UFC for Bellator . “There’s a lot of things that go into it: the marketing, the publicity.
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Aljamain Sterling Re-Signs with UFC, Takes Aim at Bantamweight Belt – MMA Weekly