The main event of UFC Vegas 56 between Jairzinho Rozenstruik and Alexander Volkov was stopped in the first round and many were upset with the stoppage. Bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling recently gave his take on the situation.

Although many were upset with the way Herb Dean stepped in, Aljamain Sterling had no problem with it. The UFC bantamweight champion noted that Jairzinho Rozenstruik's body went limp on two occasions.

“As long as this fight lasted, it was fun,” Sterling said on his YouTube channel. after UFC Vegas 56. “Rozenstruik had his moments, tried to go for the kill, got caught with a right hand and then got caught with a nasty uppercut against the cage. It felt like, from what I was watching, he went limp twice, and when you do that, even if you’re standing up, if you go limp, it looks like the fight is over because it looks like there’s a big disconnect between the brain and the body and you just buckled and you’re not there to respond. So it looks like you’re about to be in even more trouble. Rozenstruik recovered really quickly, but when you go back and watch the stoppage, I do not think it was a bad stoppage. I think it was only going to get worse because Volkov — that split second where [Rozenstruik] got to recover when the ref stopped the fight, if the ref doesn’t do that, Volkov stays on him, lands a couple more shots, and that’s probably even a worse finish than what it actually was.”

Aljamain Sterling went on to talk about the way both men matched up at UFC Vegas 56 and how hard Alexander Volkov hits. He points to Jairzinho Rozenstruik's recovery as a show of how good his conditioning was.

“Good thing for Rozenstruik to be able to recover quickly,” UFC champion Sterling said. “That says something, that he was in good shape I would like to believe, because when you recover quickly from a hard shot, it shows that you’re in good shape… But I just think there’s a very fine line between the ref letting you live to fight another day and letting you get punished to the point where you probably won’t be able to fight for another day, because the shots and the damage you’re going to take are going to be a lot worse when it’s accumulated. So I think the ref made a good judgmental move, jumped in when he saw him go limp twice, gave him an opportunity and it was just one of those things where he got caught against the cage against a much bigger guy.

“Volkov is 6’7”. He’s an animal. Rozenstruik is 6’2”, these are big, big boys, but when they stood next to each other it was like, ‘Damn, this looks like big brother and little brother right now.’ Volkov is just a big human being, so when that guy hits you, I can only imagine what that feels like. I don’t want to imagine what that feels like… But yeah, I think that was a perfect stoppage.”