Jose Aldo, one of MMA’s most famous personalities and longtime former featherweight champion, appears to be hanging up the gloves and ending his MMA career
One of the greatest careers in MMA history and arguably the greatest bantamweight fighter appears to be called today.
For each report from killerJose Aldo will retire from the sport.
Aldo has reportedly entered into an agreement with the UFC to terminate his contract without going into the final remaining fight over the deal. The UFC will give him release in order to retire, and Aldo has already been removed from the promotion ratings pool.
With Aldo free from the UFC, there is still the possibility that he will venture into another combat sport like boxing, like Anderson Silva and Vitor Belfort have done before him, or in jiu-jitsu or Muay Thai.
Jose Aldo is said to have retired from MMA after nearly 20 years in the sport
Aldo made his MMA debut in August 2004, scoring seven straight runs in the first round before losing at the lightweight. He bounced back with three straight wins before joining the WEC.
Aldo was quickly building his name with four straight finals before stopping Swanson’s Cup at just eight seconds in the WEC 41 featherweight title contender. Then, at WEC 44, he defeated Mike Brown to take the WEC featherweight title, starting one of the longest reigns at the helm. MMA department.
Aldo successfully defended the belt against Urijah Faber and Manny Gamburyan before being promoted to the UFC, where he was crowned the inaugural UFC Featherweight Champion.
From there, Aldo continued to build on his dominance and defeated Mark Hominick, Kenny Florian, Chad Mendes (twice), Frankie Edgar, “Korean Zombie” Chan Sung-jung and Ricardo Lamas.
Aldo’s reign ended abruptly at UFC 194 in December 2015, and he was knocked out by Conor McGregor in 13 seconds. He would defeat Aldo Edgar at UFC 200 to become interim featherweight champion before being promoted to the undisputed featherweight king again in late November 2016 not long after McGregor won the UFC lightweight title. However, Aldo lost the title again, this time to Max Holloway, losing at UFC 212 and the subsequent UFC 218 rematch.
Aldo rebounded with a pair of Performance of the Night deserved victories against Jeremy Stephens and Renato Moicano before losing to current featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovsky at UFC 237.
Then Aldo chose to come down to bantam weight. His debut in the division would not be successful, losing by controversial decision to Marlon Moraes, but he would still get a chance to fight for the then-vacant bantamweight championship at UFC 251., however.
Aldo then racked up three straight wins against Marlon Vera, Pedro Munhos and Rob Font before losing to Merab Dvalishvili at UFC 278 last month.
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