It’s going to take a lot for Aljamain Sterling to erase the memory of the most dubious title change in UFC history. Funny thing about these Serra-Longo guys though, their championship moments have always been overshadowed by circumstance.
You can blame head coach Matt Serra for setting an impossible standard for his future charges, at least as far as unlikely champions go. The thickly-accented New Yorker authored what still stands as the greatest upset in MMA history, earning a welterweight title fight opportunity off of a season of The Ultimate Fighter reality show featuring UFC also-rans and providing what turned out to be more than a bump in the road for the legendary Georges St-Pierre.