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Quote: Jose Aldo Is A ‘P*ssy’ For Accepting Conor McGregor’s Belt

Jose Aldo was infamously knocked out by Conor McGregor in just 13 seconds at Dec. 2015’s UFC 194, surrendering his long held featherweight belt in the process. Aldo was then able to reclaim gold at UFC 200 last July when he scored a decision victory over Frankie Edgar to become the interim 145-pound champion. Aldo

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Aldo hasn’t competed since, but he was promoted back to undisputed titleholder when the UFC stripped McGregor of his title late last year.

The choice to accept the belt seemed like a logical one, but Artem Lobov, a teammate of McGregor’s, recently called “Scarface” a ‘p*ssy’ for doing so:

“I’ll tell you one thing about Jose Aldo, if I was in his position I would have never accepted that belt,” said Lobov in a recent interview with Submission Radio. “What? So they took the belt from the guy that knocked him out in 13 seconds. They took it off that guy and they handed him that belt and he just takes it and he’s happy and smiling on his face.”

“Like, what kind of pussy do you have to be to take that? No way in hell would I ever accept that belt,” added Lobov. “I would say, ‘give me that guy again. I want to fight him, and if he’s not in the division anymore, well then f—k that, I don’t want that belt. Let the other two fight for the belt and then I’ll fight the winner and I’ll earn that belt’. Because now he’s holding a belt that Conor got off him in 13 seconds and he’ll never be able to get rid of that stain.”

Aldo will next defend his title against current interim champion Max Holloway in the main event of UFC 212 on June 3, 2017 in Rio, but Lobov doesn’t even feel as if a win over Holloway would justify Aldo’s position atop the 145-pound weight class:

“Even if he beats now Max Holloway, he’ll still be holding that same belt. So how are you as a man, as a fighter that respects himself, accept that belt? I would have never done it in my life. I don’t know why he f—king done it.”

Do you agree with Lobov’s comments?

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Jacare: Luke Rockhold Is Afraid To Fight Me

Middleweight submission master Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza is having trouble finding a top opponent, let alone the title shot that many fans and media members feel he has deserved for awhile now. After his former Strikeforce foe Luke Rockhold pulled out of their scheduled main event at last November’s UFC Fight Night 101 in Australia, Souza

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Middleweight submission master Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza is having trouble finding a top opponent, let alone the title shot that many fans and media members feel he has deserved for awhile now.

After his former Strikeforce foe Luke Rockhold pulled out of their scheduled main event at last November’s UFC Fight Night 101 in Australia, Souza had to settle got a bout versus Tim Boetsch – a tough opponent no doubt, but not one you would have expected to be announced for the No. 3-ranked Souza, who has only lost one of his last 10 bouts.

And even that was a highly controversial decision to top-ranked Yoel Romero at 2015’s UFC 194, and “Soldier of God” failed an out-of-competition drug test shortly after the bout, casting further doubt on the victory. But Jacare seems to be focused on another opponent, and that’s Rockhold, the man who stole his Strikeforce title in a razor-thin classic back in the fall of 2011.

During a recent interview with FOX Sports, Jacare said he wanted the fight and thinks Rockhold is running from him after pulling out of the bout yet still posting pictures of himself training online:

“I wanted to keep myself active. I was looking to fight Luke Rockhold but it seems like he got hurt and now I keep seeing him on social media training and doing things so now I think he’s running. So I’m happy that Tim Boetsch accepted the fight and it’s going to keep me ready and active and fighting so I’m pretty stoked that he took the fight. I’m good to go.”

Jacare elaborated on his feelings about Rockhold, noting that he first felt bad for his former opponent but after watching the AKA star campaign for a grappling match with Jon Jones, he has now changed his tune:

“Well at first, I felt kind of sad for him because he got hurt and couldn’t make the fight. I put myself in his shoes and I felt bad about it. But then after a while, watching him training and then especially when I saw he challenged Jon Jones for a grappling match, which we all know if you’re hurt you can’t do grappling, and he wants to fight him, it kind of changed my mind and what I think about him,

“Everything crossed my mind now that he’s running away from me and he’s afraid to fight me.”

Souza may be a bit miffed at the behavior of his prior scheduled opponent, and it’s even understandable why. He’s now involved in a much less high-profile bout, and all he can do to continue on what seems like a never-ending quest for a UFC middleweight fashion is finish Boetsch in impressive fashion like he’s supposed to do.

The risk certainly doesn’t equal the reward, but that’s become something of a familiar situation for Jacare.

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Top Five Year-Ending UFC Pay-Per-Views

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) always likes to end their year with a bang. It seems like every year-ending pay-per-view (PPV) put on by the world leader in mixed martial arts (MMA) is stacked. So much so that you’ll have to go back to UFC 141 in 2011 to find the last UFC PPV that

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The final UFC event of 2016 will keep the streak going unless a last minute incident ruins those plans. Current UFC women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes will defend her title for the first time against former 135-pound queen Ronda Rousey. It’ll be the fifth straight year-ending UFC PPV to close with a title bout.

LowKickMMA.com has a list of the top five UFC PPVs that ended the year in exciting fashion.

Let’s hop into it.

5. UFC 194: Aldo vs. McGregor

The final PPV card of 2015 had a ton of hype surrounding it. UFC 194 was headlined by a featherweight title bout between champion Jose Aldo and Conor McGregor. The two were initially set to meet at UFC 189, but Aldo pulled out with an injury. “Notorious” knocked out Chad Mendes on the PPV to capture the interim 145-pound title.

McGregor blasted Aldo countless times going into the fight, even going as far as saying, “I love you like my bitch.” In one of the most shocking title finishes in the history of the sport, McGregor slept Aldo in just 13 seconds with a left punch.

The co-main event featured a middleweight title bout between champion Chris Weidman and Luke Rockhold. Weidman had successfully defended his title against Anderson Silva, Lyoto Machida, and Vitor Belfort. Rockhold earned his shot by winning four straight bouts.

Weidman’s fate was all but sealed in the third round when he threw a sloppy wheel kick that allowed Rockhold to take him to the ground. The champion had no answer for Rockhold’s ground assault and Weidman was a bloody mess at the end of the round. The challenger picked up where he left off in the fourth round and finished Weidman to become the new 185-pound kingpin.

Here are the rest of the results:

Yoel Romero def. Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza via split decision (29-27, 28-29, 29-28)

Demian Maia def. Gunnar Nelson via unanimous decision (30-26, 30-25, 30-25)

Max Holloway def. Jeremy Stephens via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)

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Jose Aldo: I Don’t Want To Fight Conor McGregor At Featherweight

UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo desperately wants to avenge his UFC 194 loss to lightweight champion Conor McGregor, in which the Irishman handed Aldo his first loss in nearly a decade to take away the Brazilian’s 145-pound title at the time. Since then McGregor has been involved in a massive rivalry with Nate Diaz in the

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Since then McGregor has been involved in a massive rivalry with Nate Diaz in the 170-pound division, and made history against Eddie Alvarez with a second round TKO victory in Madison Square Garden last month to become the promotion’s first dual-weight champion of all time. Aldo has competed only once since the brutal first round knockout loss in December of 2015, winning the interim 145-pound title at UFC 200 against Frankie Edgar.

Now that McGregor has been stripped of his featherweight title, Aldo has been promoted to undisputed champion at 145 pounds, and Max Holloway has secured the interim title, a unification bout between ‘Scarface’ and ‘Blessed’ is what is expected to go down next. While Holloway is most likely the next match-up for Aldo, the Brazilian’s main focus seems to be avenging his loss to McGregor as soon as possible.

During a recent interview with AG.fight, courtesy of Bloody Elbow, Aldo stated that if he does get his shot at redemption against the heavy-handed Irishman, he wants the bout to be in the lightweight division, rather than the 145-pound weight class they competed in for their initial meeting:

“I want to get a fight with Conor, but as he is running from the fight, I want to see how things are going to be in the division,” Aldo said. “But we will fight at lightweight. I don’t want to fight him at featherweight. I’m the champion, and I’ve been beating everyone.

“I want to fight in another division, too, since this is possible now. It is not possible just for one guy. I will ask for a fight, and I will also deny fights if I want to. Since [UFC president Dana White] said that he doesn’t force anybody to fight… This is me right now.”

As far as the current state of the 145-pound division, Aldo is not a fan of the interim titles that have been in circulation throughout the weight class as of late, calling it nothing more than a ploy by the UFC to try and save events:

“This interim belt is bulls**t,” Aldo said. “Even when I won it [in July at UFC 200] I said that. It is just a f****ing excuse that someone created to save events. That is what this belt means. I’m the champion, and I will be waiting to defend my title. If it is not going to be against [Holloway], I could do a superfight or fight in another division.”

For now no official date has been given for a Aldo and Holloway unification bout, but the expected date circling the newswire is the February 11th slot that plays host to UFC 208 in Brooklyn, New York.

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Jose Aldo: Conor McGregor Was ‘Never Champion’

The MMA universe is still pondering the UFC’s curious decision to change the main event of UFC 206 into an interim featherweight title bout between Max Holloway and Anthony Pettis, but newly re-branded official champion Jose Aldo isn’t among those surprised Conor McGregor was stripped of the title. After he won the interim title versus Frankie

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After he won the interim title versus Frankie Edgar at July 9’s UFC 200, Aldo was given the belt that only he had boasted until McGregor knocked him out in a shocking 13 seconds at last year’s UFC 194 following a nearly yearlong build-up of epic circumstances. He campaigned for a rematch, yet the promotion decided to book McGregor against then-lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos and then Nate Diaz twice when ‘RDA’ broke his foot.

McGregor then went on to face and defeat Eddie Alvarez for the lightweight title at UFC 205, a fight that made Aldo threaten to leave the promotion for good. Now that’s he the champion (although many would argue with the decision), Aldo spoke up to say he knew this would happen because his loss was a fluke and McGregor was ‘never champion’ (via UFC.com):

“I knew this would happen,” Aldo said. “To me, I have always been the champion. I lost that fight because of a (fluke).

“I know I could win in a rematch. I knew I would be champion again. It’s not my fault that (McGregor) is a coward, that he was never champion. I don’t see myself losing to anyone in this weight class, or any other.”

Aldo now plans on defending his official title against the winner of Holloway vs. Pettis, and as for whom he’d rather fight, ‘Junior’ said an elusive bout with former lightweight champion ‘Showtime’ would obviously be the bigger fight:

“I don’t care — I’ll be prepared to face whoever wins,” Aldo said of the Pettis-Holloway battle. “Of course, Pettis has a bigger name; he was champion once, and it would be a bigger fight. But if Holloway wins. it’s fine.

“I’m going to win anyway.”

Strong words from arguably the greatest featherweight in the history of the UFC, but fans may be beginning to wonder where the Aldo of old is, as the champion hasn’t been able to show up to the Octagon all that often in recent years.

And when he does, he’s even admitted to coasting to decisions, relying on his superior talent rather than letting it all hang out with his formerly furious goal of finishing each and every fighter he met. This new, more brash version of Aldo is certainly drawing more headlines, but at some point he’ll have to put forth a dominant win for fans to truly accept him as champion – right or wrong.

Do you believe he should be given his respect as the true champion, or was he just dealt the benefit of some odd circumstances?

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Jose Aldo Reveals Next Move After Regaining Title

Jose Aldo is once again siting atop the UFC’s 145-pound division after the promotion made the decision to promote the Brazilian to the division’s official champion, and make next week’s UFC 206 match-up between Anthony ‘Showtime’ Pettis and Max Holloway an interim featherweight title bout. The 145-pound strap was previously held by ‘The Notorious One’

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The 145-pound strap was previously held by ‘The Notorious One’ Conor McGregor, who downed Aldo in just 13 seconds to capture the title in their main event meeting at UFC 194 in December, but was stripped of the belt for not having defended it 11 months after having won it.

Aldo recently spoke to SporTV’s Planeta (courtesy of MMA Junkie) to discuss McGregor’s current situation, stating that the next two possible bouts for the heavy-handed Irishman, in his opinion, are bouts with himself or No. 1-ranked lightweight Khabib Nurmagomedov. Now that he is the undisputed champ, however, Aldo is eying a title defense before getting his shot at redemption against McGregor:

“I think both are very tough fights for him, either at lightweight with Khabib (Nurmagomedov) or a rematch with me. So he chose to let go of mine. It’s no problem. Of course, first I want to do a (title) defense and then, yes, I will want to pursue a fight with (McGregor).”

After being denied his rematch with McGregor after suffering his first defeat in almost ten years Aldo threatened to retire from the sport of mixed martial arts (MMA) altogether and pursue other ventures. It seems now ‘Scarface’ has decided to give it a second go, and stated that he always knew that he would once again reign as the division’s champion immediately after he lost the title:

“I think I’ve always been the champion, and I will always be the champion,” he said. “As long as I’m at featherweight, no matter what happens, I’ll keep being the champion. So this, for me, was something that was already certain. The minute I lost, I knew, the next day, the belt would be mine again. It was just a matter of time. Of course, (it was) not the way I wanted, but I’m happy because I know I’m the champion.”

While Aldo’s ambition to pursue other sports still lies within him he is prepared to continue to test himself inside of the Octagon and fight out the remainder of his UFC contract, and is eyeing a return to action around February or March of next year:

“I said that if one day I left the UFC, (because) I wanted to try other sports, I said if I returned to MMA I wanted it to be to the UFC, because I’m the best in the world and the best in the world is the UFC,” Aldo said. “So I had to be there, always motivated. That’s my life. There’s no way I can escape and want something else, so I’m very motivated. I have a few fights left on my contract, but I also want to test myself in other things because I think I can also do well (in them).

“I’d been training, even with everything that’s been happening. I’ve been training and helping out my friends here (at Nova Uniao). And now we’re already making the arrangements to fight in the future. I think maybe in February or March we’ll be fighting hopefully. I don’t want to wait too long because it’s been a while since my last fight. I don’t want to go too long without fighting.”

With the featherweight division’s picture looking to take better form after next week’s interim title bout between Pettis and Holloway, it looks like Aldo will be challenging the winner of that bout to a potential title unification bout next year.

Holloway and Pettis will meet in the main event of UFC 206 live on pay-per-view (PPV) for the interim featherweight title, from the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on December 10, 2016.

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