Aldo wants a rematch and McGregor seems to have indirectly agreed via the Daily Mail to such, seeing that he was caught up at the moment.
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“The Answer” Frankie Edgar ould make an excellent option for his first title defence at featherweight, but a champion versus champion tilt would also be hard to argue against, especially if it was also in a massive stadium show in Dublin before a legion of loud Irish fans. Sports. “And I also remember when I came in, how I tried to punch. I think we have to move on now and now I am waiting for a rematch and God willing next time I will be back much better trained and recover what is mine”. “It’s a sport and we have to accept”, Aldo told Combate as translated by MMA Fighting. “To the naked eye it was 13 seconds, but to my team and my family it has been a lifetime of work to get to that 13 seconds”, he wrote.
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“My girlfriend worked very hard throughout the years and stuck by me when I had essentially nothing”, McGregor said.
‘So, there wasn’t even a fight, right?
It’s a awful way to lose, especially considering that Aldo hadn’t tasted defeat in more than one decade, defending his 145- pound strap nine times in the process.
Conor McGregor’s meteoric rise in the UFC is nearly unbelievable but it’s exactly what he’s been predicting all along. Only 13 seconds. But, man, it’s hard to say know if it’s his success or my mistake. “He got me with a good shot and was able to finish the fight”.
However, rather than retreating to lick his wounds, Aldo is already campaigning for an immediate rematch with his rival. “Not only me, but my career speaks for itself”.
McGregor has always had aspirations to fight at lightweight, but his coach, John Kavanagh, wants him to move up due to the severity of the weight cut.
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It is possible that, when official figures come in, McGregor in fact earned more than four times the amount per second picked up by Rousey.
