{"id":116681,"date":"2014-10-26T09:59:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T16:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/?p=116681"},"modified":"2022-02-04T20:14:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:14:27","slug":"aldo-admits-he-thought-the-fight-was-over-after-late-punches-dropped-mendes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/aldo-admits-he-thought-the-fight-was-over-after-late-punches-dropped-mendes\/","title":{"rendered":"Aldo Admits He Thought The Fight Was Over After Late Punches Dropped Mendes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/jose-aldo-fighters-make-millions-for-the-ufc-wheres-our-cut\/ufc-142-aldo-v-mendes-press-conference-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-116088\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/backend.bjpenn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Jose-Aldo.jpg\" alt=\"UFC 142: Aldo v Mendes - Press Conference\" width=\"550\" height=\"381\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-116088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Jose-Aldo.jpg 550w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Jose-Aldo-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Jose-Aldo-361x250.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the first round, Jose Aldo landed a brutal jab-cross combination after the round ended to drop Mendes.  On TV the move looked incredibly dirty, and extremely deliberate, however UFC President Dana White and Jose Aldo both stated neither of them could hear the bell, and insist the blows were not deliberate (Read about that <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/jose-aldo-and-dana-white-insist-late-punches-after-the-bell-werent-intentional\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Aldo, who didn&#8217;t hear the bell, admitted that he thought the bout was over after he dropped Mendes and the referee stepped in.<\/p>\n<p>Aldo spoke at the post-fight press conference.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;When the round was over, I thought the fight was over.  When I connected the punches and the referee stepped in, I thought it was over. I was about to run into the crowd, but I\u2019m glad I didn\u2019t [laughs].&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Catch the highlights from the historic featherweight bout <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/replay-watch-jose-aldo-and-chad-mendes-go-toe-to-toe-in-epic-battle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of the first round, Jose Aldo landed a brutal jab-cross combination after the round ended to drop Mendes. On TV the move looked incredibly dirty, and extremely deliberate, however UFC President Dana White and Jose Aldo both stated neither of them could hear the bell, and insist the blows were not deliberate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":116088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[197,9679,9,489,9681,11,9682,15,7259,1053],"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>Aldo Admits He Thought The Fight Was Over After Late Punches Dropped Mendes | 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\/aldo-admits-he-thought-the-fight-was-over-after-late-punches-dropped-mendes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Aldo Admits He Thought The Fight Was Over After Late Punches Dropped Mendes | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At the end of the first round, Jose Aldo landed a brutal jab-cross combination after the round ended to drop Mendes. 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