That would mean that Rousey’s next title defence, likely against Miesha Tate, would be on the same night as McGregor takes on Jose Aldo for the UFC featherweight title. The original fight was billed as one of the biggest in UFC history, but it didn’t go down due to Aldo’s injury. It wasn’t me, my team felt offended by the things he said about the team, especially “Dede” (Pederneiras).
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Manny Pacquiao has fought twice at the Cowboys Stadium, beating Joshua Clottey in 2010 and going through Antonio Margarito in the same year. “I’m just waiting for them to book the fight so we can fight on the same night as Werdum”.
Chad Mendes replaced Aldo in the contest and lost to McGregor via second-round TKO in an interim title matchup. Here’s hoping Aldo-McGregor goes down sooner than later.
“He was always a talker”. He said his strategy was set prior to the injury and only minor adjustments will be made when he’s finally locked inside the octagon with “The Notorious“. We trained for him once and we saw that our strategy would work with his fight against Mendes. “We only canceled the fight two weeks before”.
We’re excited at the very thought of this card…
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Jose Aldo and Conor McGregor are set to square off on December 5 at the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
“I would like to be on the Aldo-McGregor card if possible”.
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Sonnen recounted a story on You’re Welcome of Aldo’s lawyer calling him to say that he was considering suing him and the UFC for defamation.
