Jose Aldo Requests Release from UFC Contract: Latest Details, Comments, Reaction

Upset about not being given a rematch against Conor McGregor at UFC 205, Jose Aldo has requested a release from his contract.

Aldo made his comments to the Brazilian website Combate (translation via Guilherme Cruz of MMA Fighting):

Conor himself said before that he wouldn’t give his belt away by any chance and nobody would take it away from him. After all this, I see I can’t trust any word from president Dana White, and who’s in charge of the promotion now is Conor McGregor. Since I’m not here to be an employee of McGregor, today I ask to cancel my contract with the UFC. When they offered me a fight with Frankie Edgar, Dana said that the winner would challenge McGregor or win the linear title, that he would lose his belt if he didn’t return to the featherweight division after his rematch with Nate Diaz. After being fooled so many times, I don’t feel motivated to fight in the UFC anymore.

Aldo, 30, lost to McGregor in 13 seconds at UFC 194 to drop the featherweight championship. He rebounded with a win over Frankie Edgar at UFC 200 for the interim featherweight title, which he believed put him in line for a second shot at McGregor.

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