Aldo Quitting MMA?

[The Rocketmen]

An excerpt from the article, that I thought was INCREDIBLY important for everyone to read and know about:

“The future is a secret,” Pederneiras said. “He wants to compete in other sports, but I can’t say now. So we’re just waiting to be freed from the contract. But it wouldn’t be at MMA.”

Pederneiras also specified the terms of Aldo’s current contract, which has six fights left. The Nova Uniao leader reiterated that all the interim featherweight champion wants at this point is an amicable split from the organization. If that’s not possible, he says, there is already a lawyer involved in the case.

“We have an eight-fight contract – he’s done two, there are six to go,” Pederneiras said. “And what we want is an amicable rescission. Aldo is no longer interested in fighting in the UFC, so what he’s requesting is an amicable rescission, without the need for legal action.

“If that’s necessary, the lawyer who’s representing Aldo already has the contract in her hands and is already looking at it.”

Pederneiras believes that having an unhappy employee would not be a good deal for the organization, considering that a vocally dissatisfied athlete might end up convincing more people to join his cause. And, feeling unjustly treated by the promotion, Aldo is most certainly dissatisfied.

“I see (the UFC) as a private company – OK, but we can’t do things only to benefit the company,” Pederneiras said. “At some point, we need to think about the athletes. About all of them, not only one – which is what’s been happening. What we see now is that the person calling the shots is Conor. He said he wouldn’t give back the belt, he didn’t. He said he would get two belts, he has a chance to do that.

“It’s a complicated situation. You’re no longer a UFC employee – in Aldo’s case, he’s Conor’s employee, because he’s in his division and he has the belt. So the only person who can say ‘I’ll fight you’ is Conor himself. We’ve seen that neither Dana nor anyone in the UFC has the right to say, ‘You’re doing this’ and have the guy do it. Everything he said he wouldn’t do, he didn’t, that’s when he proved he’s the one in charge.”

[The Mighty Ducks]

The UFC is fucked if this keeps going.

[The Texas Rattlesnakes]

Well, Conor is where the money is at the moment.... the UFC seem like all they care about is the money anyway.

[The Rocketmen]

Apparently, but that concerns me because it takes away from it being a sport and instead turns it into a spectacle - the very thing the UFC didn't want to be known as when they brought in rules and adjusted it in the 90s.

[The Rocketmen]

Max Holloway weighs in on the McGregor/Aldo situation:

It’s that last thing that has Holloway fuming a bit. Holloway posted as much on his Twitter feed, writing "PUSSY-ITIS. #maxforgold"

He expressed the reason for that tweet to MMA Fighting on Wednesday night, still upset by Aldo’s audacity.

"The whole thing with Aldo, and everybody thinking he’s the best for 10 years, that he’s unbeaten and the untouchable champ, and all that," Holloway said. "Then the whole thing with Conor thing came out, and he got knocked out, and everybody getting pissed off why he didn’t get a rematch after 13 seconds. These guys need to educate themselves in damn mixed martial arts. How many times has Aldo pulled out of a main event? Not counting the Conor time, how many times before that has Aldo pulled out of a fight? It’s happened a bunch of times."

Aldo has been forced to pull out of fights at UFC 125, UFC 149 in Calgary, and UFC 153 in Brazil, all before he pulled out of his initial fight with McGregor at UFC 189 after a world tour to promote it.

Holloway sees Aldo’s quest for a rematch as lunacy.

"People keep saying Aldo deserves this, he deserves that — how the hell do you deserve something when you pulled out of all these events?" he said. 
"And did the UFC ever make an interim title when he did? They held that all the way until they gave the interim title to Conor [at UFC 189], but they did it for a business move, to make for a huge event at UFC 194. People keep forgetting the past, of what Aldo did. How many times did he screw the UFC getting hurt and not fighting in the event and the UFC scrambling around and they’ve got to find new fighters for the event or scratch his fight?

"People say 13 seconds…who the f*ck wants to see the rematch after 13 seconds? I sure as hell don’t want to see it."

"I’m not a big name like Aldo," he said. "I’m not as big as Aldo as it is right now, because Aldo had the opportunity to fight a big name and he took it over, and he made his way to the top. Just like McGregor did. He fought some big names, to make his name. Where the hell is my big name that I can go off of? I fought Cub, I fought this Jeremy guy, everybody telling me they want me to fight Frankie, and I’ve been calling out Frankie. Before Mendes got suspended, I’ve been calling out Chad Mendes. It should have been me and Frankie Edgar at that Ultimate Fighter [22 Finale] instead of Chad. That wasn’t my decision. I was begging for a fight. Shit, me and my team was begging for Frankie Edgar at MSG.

"I didn’t think Aldo would even want to defend the [interim] title. But I didn’t want him sitting out. I figured if he wanted a fight, I’d fight him, and the only guy that made sense was me. I turned my whole attention to Aldo because we called out Frankie for this MSG card, and people were telling my team that he was going to 135. So I was like, what the hell? I’ll stop harassing him if he’s going to 35, then I see he’s fighting Jeremy at 45. So f*ck this shit. This sh*t is all wired and hectic."

Holloway said he understands ultimately what’s going on with Conor McGregor, at least from a business perspective. Yet that doesn’t mean the disregard for merit — or what he perceives to be that — doesn’t play a role in his frustration.

"There’s only two guys in our division that Conor beat that’s still ranked, myself and Aldo," he said. "Who the hell else did he beat? I don’t even know who he beat. I only know the two ranked guys were me and Aldo. I don’t take that away from Conor, that he beat Chad Mendes on short notice. Chad took that fight knowing he had a chance to beat Conor, so that’s Chad’s fault he took that fight. My last four guys I beat have all been ranked."

Click the url below if you want to read more.

www.mmafighting.com/2016/9/29/13102702/a-fired-up-max-holloway-goes-off-on-jose-aldo-conor-mcgregor

[The Sandmen]

The classiest of fighters trash another fighter for getting injured. Training hard has made Aldo one of the best P4P fighters in MMA history. Max Holloway though? Well...I guess he beat Will Chope, so there's that...