“UFC 315 main card fighter counters Hall of Fame opponent with legendary cornerman”
One of the vital embellished champions in UFC historical past will assist nook a teammate for the most important battle of his profession at UFC 315.
Happening on the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, UFC 315 will shut out a four-event street journey for the UFC earlier than the promotion returns residence to Las Vegas, NV for subsequent Saturday’s UFC Battle Evening: Burns vs. Morales.
UFC 315 boasts a co-main occasion between Ladies’s Flyweight Champion Valentina Shevchenko and Manon Fiorot earlier than Belal Muhammad makes an attempt to defend his UFC welterweight title towards Jack Della Maddalena within the evening’s headliner, and the PPV major card additionally options an enormous bantamweight bout between UFC Corridor of Famer José Aldo and Aiemann Zahabi.
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The 37-year-old Zahabi is at present using the momentum of a five-fight win streak that features a pair of first-round knockouts, and his final win over Pedro Munhoz in November noticed the Canadian lastly break into the UFC’s bantamweight Prime 15.
Going through a legend in Aldo at UFC 315 represents simply the most important battle of Zahabi’s profession, and forward of the occasion the Tristar Gymnasium product spoke to UFC veteran Patrick Cote about how priceless it is going to be to have UFC Corridor of Famer Georges St-Pierre in his nook on the Bell Centre.
“Aldo is a global superstar, and everyone was so stressed about me fighting this guy,” Zahabi explained during a Sportsnet interview with Cote. “I said ‘You know what, I’ve got my own superstar.’ I’ll bring out GSP. GSP believes in me, so I wanna feed off that energy. And Georges always tells me that I’m more than enough to make it to become a world champion, so having him walk out with me fighting a world champion, it’s gonna give me that little extra confidence to know that I have the right sport.”
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Considered by some to be the greatest fighter in MMA history, St-Pierre was a two-time UFC welterweight champion that capped off his career when he returned from a four-year layoff to claim the middleweight belt against Michael Bisping in 2017.
Aldo’s own legacy as arguably the GOAT of the featherweight division is already well-established, but “The King of Rio” also hopes to add a second belt to his résumé after returning from his short-lived MMA retirement last year.
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The 38-year-old bested Jonathan Martinez in his comeback fight before dropping a split decision to Mario Bautista at UFC 307, and at UFC 315 the Brazilian will try to get back on track and defend his #11 bantamweight ranking against the surging Zahabi.
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