UFC commentator Joe Rogan believes UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo’s legendary career will always he tarnished by his loss to UFC Lightweight Champion Conor McGregor.
Aldo is the most dominant featherweight fighter in the history of the sport. At one point, Aldo was on an 18-fight win streak that saw him defeat many of the best fighters in the world. He also won both the WEC and UFC featherweight titles.
In Dec. 2015, everything changed when Aldo got knocked out by McGregor in just 13 seconds and lost his UFC championship.
Rogan talked about Aldo’s legacy on a recent episode of his podcast.
“Aldo’s legacy and his reign is always gonna be tarnished by that 13 seconds against McGregor. Which is so crazy because you take away that fight and he’s got one brutal war with Chad Mendes where he got rocked and stunned, which is a tough fight – the second one – great fight. And those are the only hard moments he’s had inside the octagon other than maybe round five against Ricardo Lamas. Lamas had him down and was doing a little bit of ground and pound in the fifth round and that was Aldo was too drained making that weight, but he’s smaller now. He generally looks smaller. He definitely chose to slim down because he was having unbelievably brutal weight cuts early in his career. He was just too big for the weight class so he just chose to slim his body down.”
Since his lost to McGregor, Aldo regained the title after the UFC stripped McGregor due to his lack of title defenses.
Aldo is scheduled to defend his title against Interim UFC Featherweight Champion Max Holloway at UFC 212 on June 3 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
