Jose Aldo News

Scott Hernandez - May 25, 2017

At UFC 194, interim featherweight champion Conor McGregor stepped into the Octagon with undisputed champion Jose Aldo for a highly anticipated showdown that saw McGregor not only win UFC gold, but end the lengthy reign of Jose Aldo in just 13 seconds. Following the loss, Aldo began to campaign for a rematch against his rival. While at one point he toyed with the idea of following McGregor to lightweight in order to contend for the Irish superstar’s 155 pound title, he ultimately fought Frankie Edgar at UFC 200 to win the interim title. Interestingly enough, after McGregor relinquished the featherweight title, Jose Aldo was promoted from interim champion to undisputed champion.

Tom Taylor - May 21, 2017

https://youtu.be/6ZZxzwHZ2Ek The next UFC pay-per-view on the horizon is UFC 212, which will emanate from sun-soaked Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on June 3.

Scott Hernandez - May 18, 2017

Throughout the course of the history of MMA, Brazil has continued to produce not only successful MMA fighters, but also successful MMA coaches. Nova Uniao head coach Andre Pederneiras is one of those coaches. The man who coached UFC champion Jose Aldo through his UFC career has trained countless Brazilian MMA fighters and coached them through the UFC ranks. Given that, it may come as a shock to many to hear that Pederneiras is encouraging his fighters to leave Brazil and come to America. He spoke to AG Fight to discuss why he encourages his fighters to leave Brazil, and the difference in national support for athletes:

Tom Taylor - May 10, 2017

In a little over three weeks’ time, in the main event of UFC 212, Jose Aldo will attempt to unify his undisputed featherweight title with the interim featherweight title of Max Holloway. Unfortunately, Aldo has sustained a pretty significant cut in training – significant enough that it required him to get five stitches. Though this initially sounds like disastrous news for UFC 212’s main event, Aldo assures the fight will go ahead as planned, promising that the placement of the cut renders it a non-issue.

Scott Hernandez - April 12, 2017

UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor certainly sparked a bit of a trend when he began to pursue a fight with undefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather. In the time since McGregor began to call for a fight with Mayweather, former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva once again began to call for a showdown with Roy Jones Jr. Now, ahead of his UFC 212 featherweight title fight against interim champion Max Holloway on June 3rd, UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo spoke with media members to also call for a boxing match.

Tom Taylor - April 12, 2017

In a few short weeks, UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo will attempt to defend his title against interim featherweight champ Max Holloway. The two will share the main event spot of UFC 212, which will go down on June 3 in sun soaked Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In advance of this fight, Aldo and Holloway have exchanged some memorable trash talk – something Aldo says he would have steered away from in the early years of his career, when honor and respect ruled the sport.

Chris Taylor - April 11, 2017

Max Holloway delivers a bold statement to Jose Aldo at UFC 212 Press Conference UFC interim featherweight champion Max “Blessed” Holloway delivered a bold statement to reigning UFC 145-pound tile holder Jose Aldo at today’s UFC 212 press conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Tom Taylor - April 5, 2017

On June third, the UFC will take over the Jeunesse Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with UFC 212. In the main event of this underrated card, we’ll see undisputed UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo attempt to unify the title with streaking interim featherweight champion Max Holloway. Given the skill of both men, all signs point to this fight being an absolutely incredible one.

Tom Taylor - March 27, 2017

This June, in the main event of UFC 212, Jose Aldo will attempt to unify his undisputed featherweight title with the interim featherweight title currently owned by Hawaii’s Max Holloway. It’s an undeniably massive fight for the Brazilian, and one that will require him to be on his A-game. While this bout with Holloway is surely Aldo’s main focus at this juncture, however, he is still desirous of a rematch with MMA superstar Conor McGregor, who knocked him out in just 13 seconds back in 2015. While this is a rematch Aldo would very much like, however, he no longer expects it to happen. The featherweight champ explained this feeling during a media scrum in Rio de Janeiro (via MMAFighting.com).

Scott Hernandez - March 24, 2017

Finalizando o treino, com treino de pegada!!👊🏻👊🏻 #reebok #reebokbrasil #usinadecampeos #vitafor #vitafornutrientes #famousburger #sportblock A post shared by josealdojunioroficial (@josealdojunioroficial) on Mar 22, 2017 at 7:52pm PDT

Scott Hernandez - March 24, 2017

UFC featherweight Artem Lobov has been gearing up for his upcoming main event scrap with Cub Swanson in April, where he will face the biggest test of his professional MMA career as he looks to crack the featherweight top 10. Ahead of the fight, Lobov has generated quite a bit of controversy as he has called out fighters with padded records for being “pussies”. He then took aim at UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo for accepting the featherweight title after Conor McGregor vacated the belt to serve as the UFC lightweight champion.

Scott Hernandez - March 17, 2017

UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo may currently be gearing up for his UFC 212 fight with Max Holloway on June 3rd to unify the interim and undisputed featherweight titles, however the UFC veteran has some long term plans of his own.

Russell Ess - February 22, 2017

UFC interim featherweight champion Max Holloway is set to unify the UFC featherweight titles on June 3 against the undisputed champion Jose Aldo in Brazil at UFC 212. Coming off the biggest win of his career against former UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis in their interim title fight, Holloway will look to step it up in in what is now the biggest fight of his career as he looks to become the undisputed champ.

Scott Hernandez - February 18, 2017

Throughout the course of 2017, reports have continued to surface that UFC superstar Conor McGregor and undefeated boxer Floyd Mayweather were progressing closer and closer to eventually having a McGregor-Mayweather superfight. Mayweather started the year by offering McGregor $15 million for a boxing match, which UFC President Dana White was quick to counter with an offer of his own, offering the undefeated prizefighter $25 million to have a boxing match with Mayweather. Mayweather was quick to laugh off the offer, reiterating that he wouldn’t fight for less than $100 million. McGregor initially remained silent on the matter before revealing in a pay-per view interview that he and Mayweather must sit down in the same room to negotiate if they hope to see the fight become official.

Russell Ess - February 17, 2017

Interim UFC featherweight champion Max Holloway is set to unify the title with undisputed champion Jose Aldo at UFC 212 on June 3 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Scott Hernandez - February 10, 2017

Friday, UFC President Dana White revealed in an interview that the UFC had officially booked a featherweight title unification fight between featherweight champion Jose Aldo and interim featherweight champion Max Holloway. Unfortunately, White couldn’t remember the date for the bout. Later in the day, reports began surfacing that revealed Aldo and Holloway would be having their fight on June 3rd at UFC 212.

Russell Ess - February 10, 2017

It sounds like Max Holloway no longer has to look for Jose Aldo. ESPN’s Brett Okamoto tweeted on Friday that he spoke with Dana White and the UFC President told him that Jose Aldo vs. Max Holloway is set.

Tom Taylor - January 30, 2017

These days, the biggest ongoing story in combat sports is a potential boxing mega bout between UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor and semi-retired boxing great Floyd Mayweather. As it turns out, however, McGregor is not the only fighter with his sights set on a boxing career. Shortly after we learned that McGregor had been granted a boxing license in the state of California, we learned that his biggest rival, Nate Diaz, was well on his way to receiving a boxing license in the combat sports mecca of Nevada. Now, it sounds as though another McGregor rival is also interested in dipping his toes in the boxing world. That rival is current UFC featherweight champ Jose Aldo, who McGregor knocked out in just 13 seconds back in 2015.