Chad Mendes is a winner, and he’s not used to feeling like this.
He hadn’t lost at anything since Ohio State University’s J. Jaggers outwrestled him in the 141-pound NCAA championship match when he was a senior at Cal Poly.
That was 2008. The calendar says 2012.
It made his UFC 142 featherweight title loss to Jose Aldo sting that much more. But let’s not pretend the Team Alpha Male product should throw in the towel at the age of 26.