Aldo insists he’s ready for unification bout at UFC 208
With new interim champion Max Holloway urging for the hashtag ‘#WheresWaldo’ to get trending on social media, Jose Aldo has said he’s ready for a unification bout as soon as February next year at UFC 208.
Speaking to Brazilian media according to a report from MMAFighting.com, Aldo has said that he is already confirmed for the Brooklyn, New York event and was simply waiting for his opponent to be confirmed.
“He’s saying ‘where’s Aldo?’, you have to talk to the UFC,” said Aldo. “About the fight in February, I already knew that, I only didn’t know who I would fight. It was between him and Pettis, whoever won the fight. It’s not something new. This fight will happen on Feb. 11.”
Aldo last fought at UFC 200 where he defeated Frankie Edgar to claim the interim featherweight championship but was recently promoted to the full titleholder following Conor McGregor’s removal from the 145 lbs rankings.
On Saturday night, however, Max Holloway became the first man to finish Anthony Pettis with a third-round TKO and in doing so, claimed a newly established interim featherweight title.
With a unification bout next up for both men, Holloway has quickly moved to quash Aldo’s assertion that a UFC 208 date is set in stone however and is hoping for time to recuperate.
“It’s news to me,” Holloway said to FoxSports. “I guess we found where Waldo is so I’m glad. It’s time to see what happens. We’re going to talk to the UFC, see what UFC says or see if he’s just trying to ******* start some ****,”
“That guy is crazy. I just looked and it’s eight weeks out already. That’s why that mother ****** wants to fight,” said Holloway. “He wants me to be all drained out from two training camps in a row but that **** ain’t going to happen.”
“Like I said, first things first, we’re going to talk to the new owners and Sean Shelby and we’re going to go from there. We’ll see what happens.”
“My son’s birthday is in January and we’ve got Christmas and I promised him I would take him to Disneyland. We’ll see what happens. I’m not trying to miss my son’s birthday, I ain’t about that life. I’m a father and I’ve got to do father things. I had to give up this Thanksgiving and my birthday and that was no fun.”