Jose Aldo bids farewell in Rio

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 39-year-old combatant Jose Aldo has yet ended his awesome vocation successful MMA. Fans astir the satellite cognize the "King of Rio" well, but past nighttime astatine UFC Fight Night: Oliveira vs. Gamrot, Aldo didn't instrumentality portion successful the combat - helium got the sendoff helium deserved.

Before entering the cage, Aldo could consciousness the ambiance of the location assemblage arsenic helium strode towards the halfway of the arena to his entranceway song. It was a infinitesimal to remember, and the UFC decided to springiness this legendary combatant a accidental to accidental goodbye the close way. When Aldo laid down his gloves successful the mediate of the cage, helium made it wide that helium was retiring from the sport. His household was with him and the country was precise emotional, not lone for Aldo but besides for everyone contiguous successful the Farmasi Arena.

This is Aldo's 2nd status from MMA. He retired for the archetypal clip successful 2022 aft losing to Merab Dvalishvili. That nonaccomplishment halted his plans to seizure the bantamweight title, though helium continued to enactment successful coagulated performances, including against Merab himself. He concisely tried boxing and had a lucifer against Jeremy Stephens, which ended successful a draw. Aldo recorded 1 nonrecreational triumph and 1 accumulation triumph successful boxing.

Aldo's return

In mid-2024, this large combatant returned to MMA. Then helium amazed with a triumph implicit Jonathon Martinez and it seemed that his vocation could summation caller momentum. However, the adjacent 2 performances against Mario Bautista and Aiemann Zahabi showed that his champion days were down him.

In the end, Jose did 42 MMA fights, won 32 times, mislaid ten, and adjacent knocked retired opponents 17 times. Once a ascendant champion, helium held the WEC belt, and aft the integration into the UFC continued his dominance with 7 featherweight loop defenses. His vocation is afloat of fights that volition beryllium remembered for a agelong time, and present 39-year-old is deservedly enjoying the fruits of his galore years of work.