Former UFC 145-pound champion Jose Aldo, who will be competing for an interim title against Frankie Edgar at UFC 200 in July, recently spoke with FOX Sports about his confusion over UFC booking Conor McGregor vs. Nate Diaz II as the main event of the UFC 200 show.
As Aldo sees it, the McGregor-Diaz II bout makes no sense because it “doesn’t get anyone, anywhere.”
“You know as an athlete obviously it’s good because I get to fight, but as a fan it sucks. To me it makes no sense really. Because everyone thought he was going to come back and defend his title and now he’s fighting Nate again. It’s a fight that doesn’t get anyone, anywhere. It doesn’t get Conor anywhere. It doesn’t get Nate anywhere. So it really makes no sense, I don’t know what’s going on.”
Aldo claims McGregor needs to make his return to the division he is champion of and defend his title. He feels it’s unfair for McGregor to leave and hold up the division for an extended period of time.
“He needs to come back to featherweight. There’s no way he can just hold onto that belt for a long time. By the end of the year he needs to come back to featherweight.”
As far as the McGregor-Diaz II bout is concerned, Aldo feels that after watching their first fight, he doesn’t see how McGregor is going to be able to do anything different this time around.
“I don’t think there’s any way for it to be different. We saw what happened last time. Maybe the only difference is that Nate is going to be even better prepared and Conor’s shame is going to be even greater.”
Headlined by Conor McGregor vs. Nate Diaz II and featuring Jose Aldo vs. Frankie Edgar for the UFC Interim Featherweight Title, UFC 200 takes place on Saturday, July 9, 2016 from the brand new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
