{"id":248391,"date":"2017-09-03T05:55:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T12:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=248391"},"modified":"2017-09-03T05:55:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T12:55:13","slug":"jose-aldo-denies-moral-victory-conor-mcgregor-floyd-mayweather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/jose-aldo\/jose-aldo-denies-moral-victory-conor-mcgregor-floyd-mayweather\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Aldo denies that there was any moral victory for Conor McGregor against Floyd Mayweather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/conor-mcgregor\/\">Conor McGregor<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/boxing-news\/mayweather-vs-mcgregor\/mayweather-vs-mcgregor-results-floyd-stops-conor-round-10\/\">came up short<\/a> in his anticipated boxing match with Floyd Mayweather Jr. Yet given that McGregor lasted 10 rounds when he was expected to be dominated by the boxing great, many fans and pundits felt he&#8217;d at least earned a moral victory in his boxing debut.\u00a0According to Jose Aldo, one of McGregor&#8217;s fiercest rivals in the MMA sphere, however, there was no such victory.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cA lot of people talk a lot of crap, like, \u2018Oh, he landed many more blows than (Manny) Pacquiao or (Miguel) Cotto and everyone.\u2019 But no one says that (Mayweather) didn\u2019t fight for two years,&#8221; Jose Aldo told <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2017\/09\/jose-aldo-moral-victory-conor-mcgregor-floyd-mayweather-emoji-shade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fernanda Prates of MMAFighting.com<\/a>. &#8220;He didn\u2019t even prepare for the fight. He knew, like everyone at the gym said, that it would be very hard (for McGregor to win) \u2013 very, very hard.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Aldo then clarified his belief that there was no moral victory for McGregor.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cOf course not,\u201d he said. \u201cMoral? First of all, you try to prove that with someone who\u2019s almost 41, who\u2019s been away (from the sport). Of course, it was a money fight. A moral victory would have been taking on an active boxer, a champion, and then fought him. And then you\u2019d see how he would barely last a round. Because it\u2019s an entirely different sport. We need to put ourselves in our places.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m an MMA athlete. I can\u2019t go tomorrow and say I\u2019m going to do muay Thai in Thailand with a Thai fighter, because I can punch and kick well. There\u2019s no way. Each one in their places. I respect martial arts, so I put myself in my place. I don\u2019t see a moral victory.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think of Jose Aldo&#8217;s assessment of Conor McGregor&#8217;s fight with Floyd Mayweather? Is it fair, or is it perhaps skewed by his dislike for the Irishman? 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