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That Dublin press conference wasn’t the only time Conor McGregor stole Jose Aldo’s belt… Conor McGregor appears to have finally committed himself full time to MMA training once again, leading many fans to wonder how much longer they will have to wait before the ‘Notorious’ star announces his comeback fight. Speaking recently, Dana White strongly suggested that the Irishman’s opponent …

For a decade, Jose Aldo was not forced to face the emotional turmoil of defeat, but over the course of the last 24 months things have taken a violent turn against the Brazilian and he has had to cope with three losses in just four outings. The first loss was the most jarring, a 13-second decimation at the heavy hands …

Last weekend, Max Holloway & Jose Aldo met for the second time at UFC 218 with the Hawaiin once again triumphing in the third round. In this day and age, trash talk and hostility has become the go-to pre-fight ritual for most combatants preparing for battle in the UFC. However, for Max Holloway and Jose Aldo, modern tendencies were strewn …

All fighters have weighed in successfully (just about) and UFC 218 is all systems go.  Max Holloway defends his featherweight title in an immediate rematch against former champ Jose Aldo in the main event in Detroit.  While both fighters looked gaunt at this morning’s official weigh-ins, with Aldo appearing visibly in extreme discomfort, both made the 145 lbs limit, giving …

Jose Aldo made weight on his second attempt at the official UFC 218 weigh-ins on Friday afternoon… Despite the fact that Jose Aldo was rated as the number one fighter on the UFC’s pound for pound fighter just two years ago, the Brazilian is now seen as the biggest underdog on the UFC 218 card. Never thought I’d see the …

SBG’s John Kavanagh has made his picks for this weekend’s epic UFC 218 card… With the UFC’s end of year card turning into a shambolic affair, UFC 218 is now undoubtedly the best MMA event remaining in this calendar year. The card features a plethora of mouth-watering clashes that will eventually be headlined by a featherweight title bout featuring Jose …

For Jose Aldo it all began in a ring in Manaus. Still a month shy of his 18th birthday, Aldo made his professional MMA debut against another newbie, Mario Bigola, at Eco Fight Championships 1 on August 10th 2004. It was immediately obvious that the youngster with the distinctively scarred face and long, muscular physique had a talent for spectacular …

Jose Aldo has just said what pretty much every MMA fan is thinking about Conor McGregor right now… Having entered the Octagon on four occasions in less than 12 months between UFC 194 and UFC 205, MMA fans have now been waiting for Conor McGregor to make a return to MMA for over a year. It had been suggested for …

Frankie Edgar was forced to pull out of his featherweight title fight against Max Holloway which was slated for UFC 218 due to a facial injury.  The news came as a huge disappointment to Edgar, his camp and initially MMA fans around the world. However, such is the nature of the game, one man’s loss is another man’s gain. Jose …

Jose Aldo has replaced the injured Frankie Edgar in the main event slot of UFC 218.  Aldo will challenge champion Max Holloway in a rematch of their June showdown for the featherweight title which saw the Hawaiian crowned as the unified champ of the division with a third-round TKO win. The Brazilian had been scheduled to take on Ricardo Lamas …

Jose Aldo could yet join the already star-studded cast of November’s UFC 217 card at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The Brazilian great fell to his second defeat in three fights and dropped the UFC featherweight title to Max Holloway back in June, as he was pummeled to a third-round stoppage in Rio de Janeiro. Rather than dwell on the …

Check out footage from a recent sparring session between Jose Aldo and Lindolpho Delgado below… Just days after clips of Conor McGregor’s second sparring session with Paulie Malignaggi grabbed headlines, footage from another recent spar between an MMA fighter and a professional boxer has hit the net. Lacking the searing heat, the intensity, the drama, the controversy and the intriguing …

Jose Aldo is less than two months removed from his second stoppage defeat in 18 months, but the great Brazilian is already talking about a possible return to the octagon. Aldo dropped the UFC featherweight title when he was brutally bludgeoned to a third-round TKO defeat by streaking Hawaiian Max Holloway in Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of last …

During an interview he granted in the days leading up to UFC 212, Max Holloway said that he wanted “the very best Jose Aldo there has ever been” to show up at the Rio event. “I don’t want that 13-second-knockout Aldo,” Holloway told FloCombat, obviously referring to Aldo’s extraordinarily quick loss to Conor McGregor in December 2015. “I don’t even want …

Brazil’s Jose Aldo wasn’t best pleased with his countryman Anderson Silva last month and with good reason. After he had been removed from the UFC 212 card, a disgruntled Silva urged fans to return their tickets for the June 3rd show in Rio de Janeiro and demand refunds. This despite the fact that the show’s main event, a featherweight title …

Max Holloway rid the word ‘interim’ from his official title on Saturday night, battering Jose Aldo to a third-round stoppage defeat in Rio de Janeiro to become the UFC featherweight champion. In the process, Holloway became only the second fighter from Hawaii, after MMA legend B.J. Penn, to grasp an undisputed UFC title. However, upon his arrival back home on …

It’s hard not to feel for Jose Aldo… In December of 2015, Jose Aldo was ranked as the number one pound for pound fighter on the UFC roster. Less than two years later and the Brazilian has lost two of his last three fights, with some even suggesting that his legacy lies in tatters. The truth is that Aldo will …