Aljamain The Funkmaster Sterling Talks UFC, Real Estate & Choosing A Better Path in Life
The A Game Podcast: Real Estate Investing For Entrepreneurs
Nick Lamagna
5.0 • 101 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2021
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Aljamain aka Aljo The Funkmaster Sterling joins us! Coming up on his fight this weekend at UFC 250 with Cory Sandhagen, #2 bantamweight, my friend and fellow Matt Serra Jiu Jitsu Black Belt talks choosing a better path in life.
He discusses how Jon Jones helped steer him from wrestling in college to MMA, how college and wrestling showed him what was really important in life and where he could have ended up. We talk about real estate investing, being a mentor to younger fighters, the UFC, MMA and discuss his budding career on tv and social media personality.
Available everywhere you get your podcasts and of course on Youtube!!! Follow Aljo this week and support him anyway you can for his fight this Saturday June 6th!!!!
Check out aljo @Funkmastermma on all social media platforms and get updates and content at https://aljamainsterling.com/
Bio: Aljamain Antoine Sterling (born July 31, 1989) is an American mixed martial artist of Jamaican descent. A professional since 2011, he made a name for himself competing in Cage Fury Fighting Championships, where he won and defended the Bantamweight Championship. He is signed with the UFC, fighting in its bantamweight division. As of June 10, 2019, he is #2 in the UFC bantamweight rankings Sterling was born in 1989 in Uniondale, New York to Jamaican parents, Cleveland and Sophie Sterling. He grew up with seven full siblings and at least 12 half-siblings. To stay away from the prevalent gang life in which some of his brothers joined, Sterling started wrestling at Uniondale High School in 2004. Unable to catch up with the grades to reach Division I, Sterling opted to enroll at Morrisville State College where he continued wrestling. During the time in Morrisville,
Sterling developed an interest for MMA when he met Jon Jones and trained on the wrestling team. After the freshman year, Sterling transferred to Cortland and eventually became a two-time NCAA Division III All-American with record of 87-27. Sterling graduated from Cortland with a bachelor's degree in physical education. He earned the nickname "The Funk Master" from his unorthodox wrestling style Aljo is a Real Estate Investor and he talks current deals and how he got started.
Aljamain Antoine Sterling (born July 31, 1989) is an American mixed martial artist of Jamaican descent. A professional since 2011, he made a name for himself competing in Cage Fury Fighting Championships, where he won and defended the Bantamweight Championship. He is signed with the UFC, fighting in its bantamweight division. As of June 10, 2019, he is #2 in the UFC bantamweight rankings Sterling was born in 1989 in Uniondale, New York to Jamaican parents, Cleveland and Sophie Sterling. He grew up with seven full siblings and at least 12 half-siblings. To stay away from the prevalent gang life in which some of his brothers joined, Sterling started wrestling at Uniondale High School in 2004.
Unable to catch up with the grades to reach Division I, Sterling opted to enroll at Morrisville State College where he continued wrestling. During the time in Morrisville, Sterling developed an interest for MMA when he met Jon Jones and trained on the wrestling team. After the freshman year, Sterling transferred to Cortland and eventually became a two-time NCAA Division III All-American with record of 87-27. Sterling graduated from Cortland with a bachelor's degree in physical education. He earned the nickname "The Funk Master" from his unorthodox wrestling style Aljo is a Real Estate Investor and he talks current deals and how he got started.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, today's episode of the A-Game Podcast is a re-release in support of Al Jermaine, |
| 0:04.3 | the fuck master sterling fighting for the USC Phantomweight title. This weekend he is on the |
| 0:09.0 | undercard for Adesanya and Blahobits at UFC 259. It's a three main card title fight event, |
| 0:17.8 | which is awesome. So Al Jermaine, on the top three of that, it's going to be an amazing fight. |
| 0:22.0 | We did this episode right before his last fight with Cory Sanhagen where we talked about him |
| 0:26.4 | choking that fool out, which he did, which was great. I talked about his Jiu-Jitsu and how |
| 0:30.8 | people were not going to know how to react when he grabbed them and that's exactly what happened. |
| 0:33.8 | So we're really excited for him this weekend. So I figured I re-released this in support of him |
| 0:38.2 | Ray Longo, Matt Sarah, Alay Quinta, and the whole Sarah Longo team. So good luck to Al Jermaine, |
| 0:42.5 | check him out this weekend on the UFC card. Hopefully he gets out of there unscathed and comes in |
| 0:47.0 | and gets another nice quick win. Takes home with belt, wins the championship, he's been working so |
| 0:51.4 | hard for, brings back another title to Long Island, Sarah Longo, Alay Mame. So a good luck to him, |
| 0:56.2 | good luck to the team, good luck to all the guys. That's going to be awesome. If you want to get involved |
| 1:00.1 | in real estate, just like Al Jermaine Sterling, go to niggandnigg.com or go to niggandnigg.com |
| 1:05.9 | slash links. And let's figure out how you can have your money working for you or pick up some |
| 1:10.1 | properties so you can spend more time doing what you love, like Jiu-Jitsu or MMA or boxing or traveling |
| 1:16.0 | or sitting on the beach or just filming yourself on TikTok or social media or whatever it is you |
| 1:20.8 | like to do or let's take and help you get there and I can hope you do that. So if you want to buy |
| 1:24.3 | properties from me, I can hook you up. If you want to sell properties to me, I'm always looking for deals |
| 1:28.6 | or if you don't know what you want to do and you just want to partner up somehow, contact me |
| 1:32.4 | niggandnigg.com slash links, get you all the links on my social media, all the ways listed |
| 1:36.8 | this podcast and we can start to make something happen and start that conversation as well as the |
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