Aldo vrs Pettis at Lightweight - Booked

Mellor

At the 169 post fight press conference. A reporter asked Aldo the usual "Who do you want next". He gave the typical, its up to the UFC/Dana/Joe reply. When passed over to Dana, instead of "we'll see", he handed it back to Aldo, basically saying "I like that fight but Jose's the man at 145, he can call the shots on moving up".


Jose's reply:
"I'm ready, lets go."
Dana: "We got a fight"


Obviously no indication on time. But we could be looking at the superfight around May.


Edit:
A few more details regarding the state of 145/155 divisions depending on the result.
If Also wins vrs Pettis at 155, he vacates the 145 title.
Should Aldo lose, he can go back to a 145 championship match (vrs whoever at that time), or stay at 155 if he wants.

stealinhorses

I think Dana said Aldo would have to vacate the title before going on to challenge Pettis, and if he loses that and wants to come back down, he will have to challenge the new featherweight champion for the belt.

adamski8

I would have liked to have seen pettis defend his belt once and aldo to give mendes a rematch before this fight happens.

Morph the Cat

Thread title is a spoiler. Makes it obvious Aldo won.

dave1982

Now there's a card that's well above average and its not even announced yet:D

Mellor

Morph the Cat wrote: »

Thread title is a spoiler. Makes it obvious Aldo won.

It's 24 hours afterwards. If you haven't seen/heard the result I doubt you are worried about spoilers. That said I think a week is the rule,

But tbf it also ambiguous, Aldo could beobing up after losing the belt.

winston82

Morph the Cat wrote: »

Thread title is a spoiler. Makes it obvious Aldo won.

You should spoiler your comment in case people dont notice the thread title.

Monkian

Mellor wrote: »

It's 24 hours afterwards. If you haven't seen/heard the result I doubt you are worried about spoilers.

You don't make the rules - read the charter.

Its still a spoiler if you give the result away in a thread title within a reasonable time period of 1 week

Mellor

Monkian wrote: »

You don't make the rules - read the charter.

And you don't enforce them - you're not a mod.

Besides I already said I knew it was a week. Title doesn't clearly give it away, if a mod has an issue he can edit if he likes. I won't mind.

El Guapo!

As Mellor said, I think the thread title is ambiguous enough. It doesn't give away the result, in my opinion.

Monkian

El Guapo! wrote: »

As Mellor said, I think the thread title is ambiguous enough. It doesn't give away the result, in my opinion.

Then logic defies you. If he lost, they'd be booking a rematch - like they did with Silva.

empacher

Monkian wrote: »

Then logic defies you. If he lost, they'd be booking a rematch - like they did with Silva.

Since when does a champion losing guarantee a rematch . If also had lost a 5 round decision. 50 - 45 he wouldn't be given a rematch he would have had to earn it.

Monkian

empacher wrote: »

Since when does a champion losing guarantee a rematch .

GSP vs Serra
Silva vs Weidman
Penn vs Edgar
Faber vs Brown
Edgar vs Henderson
Cain vs Dos Santos
Franklin vs Silva

If also had lost a 5 round decision. 50 - 45 he wouldn't be given a rematch he would have had to earn it.

If he lost a 5 round decision 50-45, they wouldn't be trying to sell a superfight with him moving up a division. The whole selling point would be diluted. Just like Silva/Jones when Silva lost.

That's why in my opinion, which is based on logic, the result of the match is obvious from the thread title. It's not my fault other people are too slow to make the same deduction.

empacher

Monkian wrote: »

GSP vs Serra
Silva vs Weidman
Penn vs Edgar
Faber vs Brown
Edgar vs Henderson
Cain vs Dos Santos
Franklin vs Silva



If he lost a 5 round decision 50-45, they wouldn't be trying to sell a superfight with him moving up a division. The whole selling point would be diluted. Just like Silva/Jones when Silva lost.

That's why in my opinion, which is based on logic, the result of the match is obvious from the thread title. It's not my fault other people are too slow to make the same deduction.

There has being 60 odd championship fights in ufc history. Plenty of champions didn't get a rematch.

Frankie Edgar after losing a championship match to benson Henderson. Dropped to feather weight to immediately challenge Jose Aldo.

So before you go calling everyone else slow think about that buddy.

El Guapo!

Monkian=Morph the Cat.
Banned.

Mellor

What a bizarre thing to get worked up about.

Monkian wrote: »

GSP vs Serra
Faber vs Brown
Cain vs Dos Santos
Franklin vs Silva

None of those 4 were immediate rematches.

That's why in my opinion, which is based on logic, the result of the match is obvious from the thread title. It's not my fault other people are too slow to make the same deduction.

lol obvious re-reg was obvious

Digital Society

Came here to read people discussing the likely winner of this fight. 17 posts and still just people whinging about nonsense.

When are you actually gonna discuss the fight?

mdwexford

Be interesting to see how it's priced up.

I'd say Aldo 2/5 Pettis 7/4 kind of thing.

Would be a hell of a fight, Pettis won't let Aldo coast like he has been lately. Will certainly put pressure on him and is a finisher.

Mellor

Aldo managers has been calling for this to be a 150lbs catchweight. That's stupid.
It's purely an insurance plan so Aldo can retain the title. Hope he doesn't screw the fight up for the fans.

Nappy

If Aldo took the fight at 155 and lost would it not be a huge dent in his income? Anyone know how that would work?

Mellor

Nappy wrote: »

If Aldo took the fight at 155 and lost would it not be a huge dent in his income? Anyone know how that would work?

Probably not, he be back headlining a 145lb main event for his usual money in no time.

mailburner

mdwexford wrote: »

I'd say Aldo 2/5 Pettis 7/4 kind of thing.

I hope you're right
I'd love to have that price on pettis
I'd say they'll have it more evenly matched myself
I'm guessing 4/6 aldo 6/5 pettis

Digital Society

Mellor wrote: »

Aldo managers has been calling for this to be a 150lbs catchweight. That's stupid.
It's purely an insurance plan so Aldo can retain the title. Hope he doesn't screw the fight up for the fans.

Insurance for a situation like Aldo spends months putting on healthy muscle then Pettis gets injured and Aldos too heavy to go back and left lying. From Aldos point of view its a fair point.