Before Aljamain Sterling defeated Takeya Mizugaki in New Jersey last weekend, the UFC bantamweight division was extremely quiet. There were no notable fights in the division after T.J. Dillashaw upset Renan Barao for the belt at UFC 173.
In fact, the only notable activity in the division has been who was injured and has to pull out of a fight.
This is not a knock on the division, as injuries happen. The bantamweights have a ton of talent and star power, and there are a ton of interesting storylines within the top 10 of the division. For example, there is the war of words that go on between Team Alpha Male and Barao or Dominick Cruz.