{"id":116109,"date":"2014-10-21T18:02:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T01:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=116109"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:16:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:16:19","slug":"jose-aldo-mendes-striking-has-not-evolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/jose-aldo-mendes-striking-has-not-evolved\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Aldo: Mendes striking has not evolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/aldo-wins.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44269\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/aldo-wins.jpg\" alt=\"UFC 142: Aldo v Mendes\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/aldo-wins.jpg 390w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/aldo-wins-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/aldo-wins-361x250.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo knows very well that the man he fights this weekend for a second time, Chad Mendes, has won four of his past five contests via knockout or TKO.<\/p>\n<p>But those statistics haven&#8217;t made Aldo a believer in &#8220;Money&#8217;s&#8221; striking skills, as he told <a href=\"http:\/\/sportv.globo.com\/site\/combate\/noticia\/2014\/10\/aldo-nao-ve-evolucao-em-chad-e-diz-merecer-maior-valorizacao-financeira.html\">Combate<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodyelbow.com\/2014\/10\/20\/7017797\/jose-aldo-no-evolution-chad-mendes-ufc-interview\">Bloody Elbow<\/a>) in a recent interview:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I see no difference in his game. He&#8217;s still the same person with the same game. He&#8217;s maybe more confident but there is nothing that I can see to tell: &#8216;Oh, the guy has better striking now.&#8217; No. He has never had a bout with a good striker and fought three rounds against him. In the cage, we&#8217;ll see who evolved more.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aldo does have a point, as Mendes&#8217; recent knockout\/TKO victories have come over Cody McKenzie, Yaotzin Meza, Clay Guida, and Nik Lentz, none of whom are known for their striking skills.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Chad Mendes&#8217; striking skills have evolved enough to dethrone the UFC&#8217;s longtime featherweight champion? Or will Jose Aldo once again rise to the occasion and prove he&#8217;s one of the best pound-for-pound fighters on the planet? Sound off Penn Nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo knows very well that the man he fights this weekend for a second time, Chad Mendes, has won four of his past five contests via knockout or TKO. But those statistics haven&#8217;t made Aldo a believer in &#8220;Money&#8217;s&#8221; striking skills, as he told Combate (via Bloody Elbow) in a recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[197,226,229,489,649,674,16,6829],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jose Aldo: Mendes striking has not evolved | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/jose-aldo-mendes-striking-has-not-evolved\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jose Aldo: Mendes striking has not evolved | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo knows very well that the man he fights this weekend for a second time, Chad Mendes, has won four of his past five contests via knockout or TKO. 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