On March 9 at the UFC 299 fight show in Miami, USA, the Russian defeated the Chinese by unanimous decision of the judges and broke a streak of three losses in a row.
"What a fight! Petr was under as much pressure as you can imagine. Song looked good in the first round, but maybe the mutual wrestling exhausted him before the last rounds. A close fight. Great fight!" - wrote Sterling on his page in social network X.
Recall that Sterling and Yang met twice in the octagon. Both times the victory remained for the American