Jose Aldo says there’s a ‘big’ chance he’s done with bantamweight after UFC 315: ‘It makes no sense’

Jose Aldo’s bantamweight run could have come to an finish after the previous UFC and WEC champion did not hit the 136-pound restrict for his UFC 315 conflict with Aiemann Zahabi in Montreal.

Aldo and Zahabi had been scheduled to fulfill in a three-round bantamweight contest Saturday in Canada, however the Brazilian stepped on the dimensions at 143 kilos on Friday morning. Zahabi was subsequent, weighing barely lighter. The UFC instantly introduced that the bout was modified to a featherweight contest.

Aldo mentioned on the Brazilian UFC 315 weigh-in show after the ceremonial weigh-ins on Friday afternoon that there’s a “big” likelihood he goes again to featherweight for his subsequent fights.

“I was talking to ‘Dede’ about it,” mentioned Aldo, referring to longtime coach and supervisor Andre Pederneiras. “I’ve forced too much on this weight. I’ve always weighed around [158 pounds], so I was never as heavy as these featherweights are today, cutting from [176] or higher. So there was no problem for me making [135], but I think I’ve reached a point in my career that it makes no sense to keep forcing [the cut] and taking fight after fight. I love fighting; this is what I like doing, but it’s best to do it at featherweight. But first I gotta think about tomorrow, on Zahabi. I have to go in there and win, and then we’ll see where I go.”

Zahabi informed SportsNet earlier at present that he was lower than a pound away from making weight when the UFC reached out informing his workforce that Aldo wouldn’t hit the restrict, so he stopped the method.

“So I was cutting my weight, and I just got into the blankets this morning, and I was 136.8 pounds,” Zahabi mentioned. “Firas [Zahabi] was receiving the text and the calls to stop cutting. ‘Jose can’t make weight, he’s 145. There’s no way he’s going to make the weight,’ and the commission won’t allow, in Montreal, a five-pound weight difference. So there’s no 20 percent, we have to do a featherweight fight. We can’t do a bantamweight fight. A bantamweight fight option is off the table completely.”

Aldo informed a distinct story, although, saying he was barely over 63kg, or 139 kilos, when he talked to Pederneiras about not reducing the ultimate three kilos.

“It was all going well at bantamweight, I was hitting the target on a daily basis and cutting weight well, but it was my mistake,” Aldo mentioned. “I couldn’t reach a certain point, so I talked to ‘Dede’ and found it was best to do this fight — I was almost at [139], so I had already worked all night, and in the morning, so I talked to ‘Dede’ and he talked to Sean [Shelby] at 6 a.m., if I’m not mistaken. They talked to Zahabi if he would take it, and he did, so it was then booked for featherweight.”