UFC LEGEND Jose Aldo retires, official statement pending but has exited the UFC, leaving a Hall of Fame-worthy legacy
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Jose Aldo
Former WEC-UFC featherweight champion and the only 2-time featherweight champion in UFC, Jose Aldo, has officially bid farewell to the sport of MMA with his exit from the UFC. Multiple sources have confirmed this. Aldo makes this a sudden move but is yet to release an official statement on his Instagram or any other social media. The news was initially a rumour starting from late August due to a word of mouth from Aldo’s last UFC opponent, Merab Dvalishvili, who revealed that Aldo sort of told him in their last fight at UFC 278.
Aldo had one fight left in his last UFC contract and fans wanted to see The King Of Rio fight in a UFC event on January 2023, which will mark the organization’s return to Brazil after 3 years. His legacy is one to be cherished by many. Aldo left Manaus, the place where he was born in Brazil, to come to Rio de Janeiro with nothing in hand except for his clothes to come train in MMA and achieve something. Sure he did, better under the guidance of his head coach André Pederneiras from Nova Uniao training centre.
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Jose Aldo: A Legendary Career in Retrospective
Jose Aldo has the record for the most title defences in UFC-WEC featherweight history. He is submitting for himself a record of 31-8 in his overall MMA career. Out of those 31 wins, Aldo has won 17 by the way of knockouts. His list of wins includes the likes of Rob Font, Marlon Vera, Pedro Munhoz, Jeremy Stephens, Renato Carneiro, Frankie Edgar, Chad Mendes, Ricardo Lamas, Chan Sung Jung, Kenny Florian, Urijah Faber, Mike Thomas Brown, Cub Swanson and many more.
What do you make of Aldo‘s sudden retirement announcement? Where do you put Aldo amongst the greatest UFC fighters of all time? Where do you put Aldo amongst the best fighters ever to come out of Brazil? What do you think is next for Aldo in his next chapter of life? Many believe that Aldo might try his hands in boxing just like other former UFC fighters like Anderson Silva, Ben Askren and Tyron Woodley. But do you think Aldo can also make a go in Bare Knuckle Boxing as well?
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