Aljamain Sterling thinks he’s one win away from securing a featherweight championship opportunity.
After securing a dominant unanimous decision victory over perennial contender and one-time title challenger Brian Ortega in Shanghai, Sterling continued to inch his way up the featherweight rankings.
Now sitting as the fifth-ranked contender in the division, the former bantamweight king believes he’s just one win away from a crack at current 145-pound titleholder Alexander Volkanovski.
“I think the next possible matchup would be Diego Lopez or Yair Rodriguez,” Sterling said during an appearance on the Pound 4 Pound podcast with Kamaru Usman and Henry Cejudo.