Jose Aldo is sitting down, this week, to thrash out his future with Dana White and the UFC brass.
To get you up to speed, Aldo lost in 13 seconds to Conor McGregor at UFC 194 and turned down a rematch at UFC 196 because he felt he was not given enough notice. He then claimed he would fight McGregor again in the future and boasted that it did not even have to be in the Octagon.
While McGregor was off fighting Nate Diaz in the welterweight division [twice], Aldo won the interim featherweight belt after taking a decision win over Frankie Edgar at UFC 200.
He could not let his obsession with The Notorious lie, in the lead-up to that Edgar fight, as he mocked the Dubliner for missing out on the massive Las Vegas event.
Jose Aldo's latest swipe at Conor McGregor is his most disappointing yet https://t.co/QcmLXAIQDX #UFC200
— SportsJOE (@SportsJOEdotie) April 28, 2016
McGregor is calling whatever fights he wants, off the back of his Diaz win [at UFC 202] and his undoubted status as pay-per-view king. He fights lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez at Madison Square Garden, next month.
Aldo is pissed off and it is hard not to feel for him. White has offered him Max Holloway next but that won’t bring in much money, nor will it satisfy the Brazilian’s lust for revenge.
McGregor is not so sure.
During his Q&A session on LAD Bible, last night, he claimed Aldo did not truly have the heart to face him. He commented:
“I don’t think he wants the rematch. I think he is happy with this feud; this get-out clause.
“I won, I knocked him out, then he came back and won a decision; he has an interim belt.
“I think he wants this feud with the UFC and he wants to separate himself because he doesn’t want this again.”
Aldo will sit down with the UFC in the coming days. He claims he is hell-bent on McGregor but neither man seems to be on the same page.
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