“I’m interested in Cody Garbrandt vs. Jose Aldo at 135 pounds,” Ali Abdelaziz is down to let Cody fight Aldo next

“I’m interested in Cody Garbrandt vs. Jose Aldo at 135 pounds,” Ali Abdelaziz is down to let Cody fight Aldo next
Jose Aldo and Cody Garbrandt

The former UFC Bantamweight champion Cody Garbrandt was booked to face Deiveson Figueiredo for the title but Cody was ruled out from this fight due to injury and later getting caught by COVID. But now the former champ is fully recovered and is looking to make a comeback inside the Octagon in March.

Cody gets involved in a Twitter spat with Sean O’Malley in which both of them challenged each other for a fight. On the other hand, Cody’s manager Ali Abdelaziz has his eyes set on the UFC title only, if the title isn’t available for a while as Figueiredo defended it twice recently.

Then he is interested in Cody facing Jose Aldo next who recently registered his first win in the bantamweight division by defeating Marlon Vera. In his recent interview with MMA Junkie, Ali says “I’m interested in Cody Garbrandt vs. Jose Aldo at 135 pounds,”

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“If the flyweight champ is available, 100 percent Cody is the No. 1 contender. That’s what Dana White says. If he’s not available, everybody is booked or coming from losses. I think Cody needs a fight to get him up, and I think Jose Aldo is a fight to get him up. I think that’s a five-round fight, main event. Why not?”

Ali is focusing on making Cody double champ

Cody ‘No Love’ Garbrandt

Cody Garbrandt didn’t had a good run in UFC recently he lost three consecutive fights. But he made a comeback in his recent fight by knocking out Raphael Assuncao, after that COVID took him out. Now he’s fully recovered and Ali believes that he is ready to win the title again.

Ali added, “A healthy, focused Cody Garbrandt is a very dangerous Cody Garbrandt, I think he can beat anybody on any given night, as long as he is healthy and focused, and I believe he matches up with the champ at 125 very well. I think he’ll knock him out.”

“I think stylistically, Cody is a very bad matchup for Petr Yan, too. To be honest with you, I think Cody, he fights Aldo, he wins, he goes down and fights at ’25 and then comes back and try to be a double champ.” Now with ‘No Love’ targeting to return back in March, it is going to be interested to see how he will proceed now.

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