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UFC Bantamweight Champion Sean O’Malley will defend the gold against Marlon Vera in the main event of UFC 299.
Former UFC Bantamweight Champion Aljamain Sterling believes the UFC is loading the card up to make O’Malley look like a bigger draw than he is.
“In terms of styles, it’s still a good fight. Don’t get me wrong, I’m going to watch. It’s just kind of funny that the UFC felt the need to stack this card so much to make it feel like Sean is the draw,” Sterling said on The MMA Hour. “It’s actually comical, because I know people were kind of trying to s*** on the [UFC] 300 [card]. I’m like, well, a lot of those fights that people probably would’ve wanted [for UFC 300] were on 299, for whatever reason. It doesn’t take much to kind of draw conclusions — [if] you want to build somebody up, you build [them] up and you bring the other eyeballs with all these other people.”
The currently announced UFC 299 card features one title fight (O’Malley vs. Vera), plus 15 ranked fighters in action (including Vera) and seven bouts featuring ranked fighters versus either another ranked fighter or a champion.
