{"id":264138,"date":"2017-11-20T09:18:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T17:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=264138"},"modified":"2017-11-20T09:18:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T17:18:13","slug":"jose-aldo-defends-conor-mcgregor-bellator-187-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/jose-aldo\/jose-aldo-defends-conor-mcgregor-bellator-187-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Aldo defends Conor McGregor after Bellator 187 incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/conor-mcgregor\/\">Conor McGregor <\/a>recently dominated headlines for a bizarre incident at Bellator 187, in which he stormed the cage during his teammate Charlie Ward&#8217;s fight, and ultimately shoved referee Marc Goddard, and slapped a commissioner. These actions understandably generated scorn from the vast majority of the MMA community. Not everyone, however, faults McGregor for the way he acted. Former UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo, one of the fiercest rivals of McGregor&#8217;s career, even defended him.<\/p>\n<p id=\"XWyubg\">\u201cI haven\u2019t seen the video, but I heard about it,\u201d Aldo said during a media day in Rio de Janeiro (h\/t Guilherme Cruz of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2017\/11\/20\/16679414\/jose-aldo-defends-emotive-conor-mcgregor-bellator-187-incident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAFighting.com<\/a>). \u201cI think it\u2019s normal. He\u2019s an emotional guy, and when an Irishman is fighting the Irish people embrace them a lot. I don\u2019t condemn him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"RFIzjS\">\u201cHe didn\u2019t do that for attention, he\u2019s done that before. When we did The Ultimate Fighter, an athlete from his team won and he went up there and in there, he even tore his pants. He\u2019s really emotional, and I don\u2019t condemn him for what he\u2019s done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aldo even admitted that he has acted similarly in the past.<\/p>\n<p id=\"cCz17B\">\u201cHow many times have I invaded the Shooto (cage) when someone close to me is fighting?\u201d the former champion said. \u201cI really go there. The referee talks to me, but I still do it. I think it\u2019s the heat of the moment, but there are bigger things than just the rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jose Aldo will next fight on December 2, when he takes on current featherweight champion Max Holloway in the main event of UFC 218. This title shot was originally expected to go to long-time contender Frankie Edgar, who was unfortunately forced out of the bout with an injury.<\/p>\n<p>Where do you stand on Conor McGregor&#8217;s antics at Bellator 187? Do you share Jose Aldo&#8217;s understanding outlook?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 20\/11\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conor McGregor recently dominated headlines for a bizarre incident at Bellator 187, in which he stormed the cage during his teammate Charlie Ward&#8217;s fight, and ultimately shoved referee Marc Goddard, and slapped a commissioner. These actions understandably generated scorn from the vast majority of the MMA community. Not everyone, however, faults McGregor for the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":133550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10145],"tags":[],"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 defends Conor McGregor after Bellator 187 incident | 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\/mma-news\/jose-aldo\/jose-aldo-defends-conor-mcgregor-bellator-187-incident\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jose Aldo defends Conor McGregor after Bellator 187 incident | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Conor McGregor recently dominated headlines for a bizarre incident at Bellator 187, in which he stormed the cage during his teammate Charlie Ward&#8217;s fight, and ultimately shoved referee Marc Goddard, and slapped a commissioner. 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