UFC’s Aljamain Sterling compares Bryan Caraway to a ‘parasite’

The back and forth between top ranked UFC bantamweights Aljamain Sterling and Bryan Caraway shows no signs of stopping ahead of their scheduled clash at UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs. Garbrandt, which takes place this Sunday at the Mandalay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Sterling (12-0) told Bloody Elbow that the reason he first got the call to fight in the UFC was because of Caraway (20-7). According to Sterling, he was the replacement after Caraway had ‘pulled out’ from a fight with a ‘tough opponent’, something Sterling claimed was typical for Caraway.

“He just doesn’t like to take tough fights, and he’s openly went on record and said it,” said Sterling. “It’s like he doesn’t want to take fights with guys who don’t make sense for his career, which I understand, but ultimately it comes down to him not wanting to take tough fights. I fought Mizugaki, as an unranked opponent, Mizugaki stepped up and fought me, he didn’t have to take that fight, that fight did nothing for his career.”

“[Caraway] said he wanted to fight somebody in the top-five, [Urijah] Faber called him out, he didn’t want that fight, he wanted to fight Michael McDonald, who was coming back off a two-year layoff with wrist surgery, multiple wrist surgeries, and same thing with Eddie Wineland, who’s coming back from a broken jaw. He calls out Eddie Wineland, so you can kinda tell a man’s character based on the opponent’s he’s called out.”

Asked why he believed Caraway accepted the bout between them. Sterling laughed, “I think he had no choice!”

“I just don’t think he had many other options. I think it’s like, you either take this fight, or see you later kind of thing, but who knows?”

This wasn’t the first time Sterling had eluded to Caraway’s position in the UFC being under threat. He had previously done so, albeit cryptically, in a tweet.

Call me Hitman.The leather gloves fit.Theres a guy on the list that the UFC wants gone.They said make it silent and painful. #Strangle

— Aljamain Sterling (@FunkMaster_UFC) May 7, 2016

When asked directly if he believed the UFC would prefer not to have Bryan Caraway on its roster, Sterling replied by imitating the sound of a gun firing, three times, before adding: “They gave me the sniper rifle and they told me to take him out.”

“He kinda just reminds me of a freakin’ parasite, just one of those guys, I think that’s what bothers me most about him.” – Aljamain Sterling

Sterling laughed after that statement and continued, “Listen man, I don’t know if that’s exactly what they want, I mean, they got Meisha, Meisha’s awesome, she’s a great person, but when you got a guy who is on the bandwagon, who is just kinda riding your coattails, and any type of success you have, any type of sponsors you have, they kinda just leach on to you, I think… he kinda just reminds me of a freakin’ parasite, just one of those …

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