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Jose Aldo’s coach calls for UFC to back up interim title fight claims
Throughout the course of this week, interim UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway revealed that an ankle injury will keep him from fighting Jose Aldo for the undisputed featherweight title at UFC 208 in February. Following that, recently promoted UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo revealed that he was in negotiations with the UFC to fight for […]
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Jose Aldo gives update on interim lightweight title fight
Earlier this month, recently promoted UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo revealed that not only was he going to be moving up to lightweight, he would be competing for the interim featherweight championship. While this is likely due to Aldo’s desire to avenge his 13 second KO loss to Conor McGregor, it was also revealed this […]
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Jose Aldo gives insightful reasoning for not speaking more English language with media and fans
With Jose Aldo’s long reign as the featherweight champion before meeting Conor McGregor at UFC 194 last year, “Scarface” was the king of the featherweight division and ranked #1 on the UFC pound-for-pound list. However, with being the top ranked pound-for-pound fighter, Aldo says that he never got all the opportunities Conor McGregor has. Aldo […]
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Jose Aldo explains how UFC contract is keeping him from his dreams
Recently promoted UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo has had a very public dispute with the UFC brass over the second half of this year. After Conor McGregor opted to return to welterweight for a rematch with Nate Diaz at UFC 202, UFC President Dana White stated that after the fight Conor McGregor must either defend […]
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Max Holloway goes off on Jose Aldo over recent comments
While it is undeniable that Max Holloway will be getting the next crack at Jose Aldo after winning the belt at UFC 206 earlier this month, there has been some confusion in regards to when the pair will fight. While Jose Aldo has been informing fight fans that prior to Holloway vs. Pettis, ‘Blessed’, ‘Showtime’, […]
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Jose Aldo: I’m the real featherweight champ, not ‘two-faced’ Conor McGregor
When Conor McGregor won the UFC lightweight title from Eddie Alvarez in November, he became the first fighter in UFC history to hold titles in two weight classes concurrently, as he still owned the organization’s featherweight belt at the time. Yet given that it had been nearly a year since he’d won that featherweight title, […]
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Jose Aldo gives update on title fight with Max Holloway
Earlier this month, major changes were made to the UFC’s featherweight division when the UFC had Conor McGregor relinquish the UFC featherweight championship in order to promote the co-main event scrap of UFC 206 between Anthony Pettis and Max Holloway, to an interim featherweight title fight. Subsequently, Jose Aldo was promoted to the undisputed featherweight […]
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Max Holloway on Jose Aldo: ‘I have more wins than this guy has fights in the UFC’
UFC interim featherweight champion Max Holloway is already building up the expected fight with the undisputed featherweight champion Jose Aldo. With his humorous #WheresJoseWaldo campaign launched upon winning the interim title in the five-round fight against Anthony Pettis, the young and active Hawaiian is making his case for what is behind his UFC title. “Someone […]
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Max Holloway sends message to Jose Aldo: “Stop crying”
Interim UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway has certainly been on a tear of the UFC’s featherweight division over the past two years. After dropping a unanimous decision to Conor McGregor in the Irish superstar’s second UFC fight, Holloway bounced back by rattling off ten straight wins, the most recent being a win over former UFC […]
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Jose Aldo says he is chasing down Conor McGregor for rematch and interim belts are ‘bullshit’
Newly promoted UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo is hungry for a rematch against his rival Conor McGregor. After being defeated for the first time in ten years in a shocking 13-second knockout coming from the hands of McGregor at UFC 194, Aldo is looking to follow the Irishman up to the UFC lightweight division if […]
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Max Holloway on Jose Aldo: ‘send his ass to the Cleveland Clinic and check his brain out’
Max Holloway is ready to launch himself into superstardom following the biggest win of his career over the weekend at UFC 206.Holloway became the first man to stop former UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis and also picked up the UFC interim featherweight belt in doing so in Toronto, Canada. Now, with a title unification bout […]
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Jose Aldo sides with MMAFA, not Bjorn Renbey & MMAAA
There have been quite a few major industry-changing advances in the MMA community as of late. Earlier this year, UFC legend Randy Couture joined several fighters, including former UFC fighter Cung Le, in announcing the formation of the MMA Fighters Association. This month however, former UFC welterweight kingpin Georges St-Pierre, former UFC champions TJ Dillashaw […]
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Jose Aldo not impressed with Max Holloway’s win streak
This month has been a busy one for the UFC’s featherweight division. After Irish superstar Conor McGregor, who reigned as the featherweight champion at the time, successfully made his lightweight debut in November when he TKOd Eddie Alvarez to capture the lightweight championship, he then opted to relinquish the featherweight championship. As a result, the […]
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Jose Aldo says he is set to fight Max Holloway at UFC 208
Recently promoted UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo says he is set to return to the Octagon at UFC 208, which takes place in Brooklyn, New York on February 11. Aldo told the media in Brazil on Monday that he will fight Max Holloway in a UFC featherweight title unification bout as Holloway just won the […]
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A quick look back at the year since Conor McGregor KO’d Jose Aldo
One year ago today, Ireland’s Conor McGregor backed up months of trash talk and bravado to knock out Jose Aldo and win the UFC featherweight title. The knockout occurred just 13 seconds into the fight’s first frame, and marked the end of Aldo’s decade-long unbeaten streak. How things have changed since then. Shortly after his incredible […]
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Max Holloway remains doubtful that Jose Aldo will show up to fight him
Last night, in the main event of UFC 206, Hawaiian contender Max Holloway won the UFC interim featherweight title with a third-round TKO of former lightweight champ Anthony Pettis. This win set the Hawaiian up for a title-unifying showdown with undisputed champ Jose Aldo, who was recently promoted to that role when Conor McGregor was […]
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Jose Aldo goes off on “pieces of s**t” in Conor McGregor’s camp
Recently crowned undisputed UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo has been criticized quite a bit since he was promoted from the interim featherweight champion to the undisputed featherweight champion in the wake of Conor McGregor relinquishing the featherweight title. Aldo reigned as the UFC featherweight champion for five years, defending his title seven times over the […]
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Anthony Pettis on Jose Aldo: It’s not like he sucks because he got knocked out by Conor McGregor
On December 10, the UFC will return to Toronto, Ontario, Canada for the first time since late 2013. It will do so with UFC 206. Originally, this card was supposed to be headlined by a light heavyweight title fight between champ Daniel Cormier and challenger Anthony “Rumble” Johnson. When Cormier withdrew from the bout with […]
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Jose Aldo on McGregor loss: I lost that fight because of a fluke
Last December, in the main event of UFC 194, Jose Aldo was knocked out by Conor McGregor in just 13 seconds. The loss forced the end of his decade-long unbeaten streak and his incredible reign as WEC and UFC featherweight champion. In the year since his defeat of Aldo, McGregor has taken two welterweight fights with […]
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Conor McGregor no longer double champ on UFC website, Jose Aldo back
It was stated numerous times by UFC President Dana White that Conor McGregor would have to vacate a title if he won the UFC lightweight belt against Eddie Alvarez at UFC 205. “If he wins, he’ll hold two belts,” White said prior to UFC 205 taking place. “Then he’ll decide which one he wants to […]
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Jose Aldo addresses being promoted to undisputed featherweight champion and comments on Conor McGregor
Jose Aldo is once again the undisputed UFC featherweight champion. This all comes after the UFC announced that Conor McGregor “relinquished” his featherweight title shortly after winning the lightweight title against Eddie Alvarez at UFC 205, making him the first concurrent two-division UFC champion is the history of the sport. UFC President Dana White stated […]
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VIDEO | UFC stars discuss who they think can beat Conor McGregor
Earlier this month, in the main event of UFC 205, Conor McGregor knocked out Eddie Alvarez to win the UFC lightweight championship. At the time, McGregor also owned the organization’s featherweight crown, which made him the first fighter in UFC history to hold titles in two weight classes simultaneously. Though the UFC has since ended McGregor’s […]
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MMA community reacts to Conor McGregor relinquishing the UFC featherweight title
Last December, Ireland’s Conor McGregor won the UFC featherweight title with a 13 second knockout of Jose Aldo. In his next fight, he was expected to take on then lightweight champion Rafael Dos Anjos for a shot at a second UFC belt. When Dos Anjos withdrew from this planned contest with an injury, however, McGregor […]
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Max Holloway trashes Jose Aldo: “that motherf**ker been running”
In a few short weeks, in the co-main event of UFC 206, Hawaiian featherweight Max Holloway will take on former lightweight champion Anthony Pettis. If Holloway defeats Pettis, his win-streak will grow to a baffling 10-straight. Needless to say, Holloway has done pretty much all their is to do to earn a featherweight title shot. […]
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Frankie Edgar breaks down loss to Jose Aldo
Back in July, at UFC 200, Frankie Edgar & Jose Aldo stepped into the Octagon to square off for the interim featherweight championship. In addition to the pair fighting for the interim featherweight strap, they were also fighting for a chance to step into the Octagon with featherweight champion Conor McGregor, who knocked out Aldo […]
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Jose Aldo’s coach: UFC will not let him retire to pursue other endeavors
It sounds like UFC interim featherweight champion Jose Aldo will continue fighting for the UFC despite his wishes to retire and be released from his UFC contract. Nova Uniao head coach Andre Pederneiras told Combate on Tuesday that even after Aldo’s meeting with UFC brass, his wishes to retire in order to pursue new endeavors […]
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VIDEO | Jose Aldo Still Working Hard in the Gym Despite Retirement Talk
Voltando a forma 💪🏻 obrigado @emersonfalcaovieira pelo treino mestre 👊🏻👊🏻 oss #reebokbrasil #vitafor #famousburguer #reebok #vitafortnutrientes A video posted by josealdojunioroficial (@josealdojunioroficial) on Oct 31, 2016 at 9:15am PDT Earlier this year, on the main card of UFC 200, former featherweight champion Jose Aldo rebounded from a 13-second knockout loss to Conor McGregor with […]
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PHOTOS | Jose Aldo returns to training
While interim UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo has continued his ongoing feud with the UFC brass, claiming that he still has no intentions to fight, the former featherweight kingpin has returned to training this week, potentially indicating his return is in the works. Aldo has taken to social media twice this week to post pictures […]