UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo is 20-1 as a pro fighter, 2-0 in his UFC career with a “Fight of 2011” candidate in his UFC 129 win over Mark Hominick and a UFC 136 win over Middleweight-turned-Featherweight Kenny Florian, and he’s seen by some as the best Featherweight in MMA while others argue that Aldo is the best pound-for-pound fighter in the sport.
However, this Saturday night, Aldo faces a tough task at Brazil’s HSBC Arenain Rio de Janeiro; while he’s going to have 14,000-plus people on his side, he will also have to contest the athleticism, wrestling, strength, and relentlessness of the undefeated Chad “Money” Mendes—and justifiably so. Some believe that Mendes will in fact be the first man to snap Aldo’s win streak, which dates back to 2005.
Underneath Aldo’s trip home is the debut of who some might call “The REAL Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson” as he steps into enemy territory to combat TUF: Brazil coach and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Vitor Belfort in the explosive co-main event of what promises to be a successful return to Rio and also a successful first card for the UFC’s 2012 schedule.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages and nationalities, with all this and more, Bleacher Report MMA presents UFC 142: Aldo vs. Mendes, and we’re giving you every hard-hitting moment of the action as seen through the eyes of your “Human Torch of MMA”, Dale De Souza, from the first opening bell to the final official decision of the evening!
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