It seems Jose Aldo already contacted a lawyer to assess his contract situation

If he retires his contract will just get frozen. Did the Conor fight get him enough money to buy out his own contract? Schaub said they offered to figured something out for his contract if he wanted to fight again(but he has built in podcast fans) If they'll do that for him the would do something like that for Jose
 
Dana is the man said:
It'd be cool if there was no cancer and other terminal illness' either, but that isn't how the world works.
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It's documented that all great empires crumble eventually. Physics tells us top heavy objects fall over. The UFC won't have to worry about the monopoly tag in 5, 10 years.
 
Dirge said:
The key word in your statement is "ask".... He can ask all he wants, if the UFC says no, it's no. He has no legal recourse at that point.

And furthermore why would he ask to be let out of his contract if he is retiring? Seriously there is no reason to exit a contract when you are done fighting. Lots of fighters have retired with fights left on their contracts, Randy Couture, Chuck Liddell, Rich Franklin, Forest Griffin, etc.


The only time this matters is if you plan to go to another organization... This is why the UFC locks their fighters into ironclad contracts. The UFC could care less if Aldo actually retires, that is entirely up to him and as I mentioned before, despite his being a talented fighter, he has actually cost the UFC a great deal of money over the years by pulling out of no less than 6 title fights...

What the UFC cares about and why they have contracts is Aldo leaving the UFC and going elsewhere and the other organization benefiting from the advertising and reputation Aldo developed on the UFC's nickle.

It's a pretty simple concept.
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Well we will see shortly won't we. Aldo can ask for his release, and the UFC can say yes or no.

Then, through his attorney, Aldo could more stringently demand his release. Perhaps alluding to litigation on the grounds that the UFC broke a verbal agreement. Not saying they would in this case, but courts hold verbal agreements binding all the time. That is one of the follies of having a figurehead running his mouth in public all the time.

All sorts of ways an attorney could approach this. I'm sure the UFC will have their attorneys to advising them as well.
 
Brass Balls said:
It's documented that all great empires crumble eventually. Physics tells us top heavy objects fall over. The UFC won't have to worry about the monopoly tag in 5, 10 years.
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The UFC isn't a great empire, it's the lead organisation in a niche sport.
 
Its a shame that UFC has became a clown stage instead of a fighter cage. Aldo is one of the best fighters in activity right now, and UFC keeps treating he like trash.
 
Tonycpa said:
Dana White let prime Baby Jay leave the UFC, why would anyone think he would appease Aldo?
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Dana did not let baby J leave jack shit. BJ did what he did because he could.

The exclusivity clause in BJ's contract had expired. He did not sign a new one before the bout with Hughes. Afterwards he was free to do wtf he wanted, so he went somewhere else. Either because he would get paid more, or because if he was going to get paid less, he did not want the UFC to benefit.
 
cooks1 said:
Dana did not let baby J leave jack shit. BJ did what he did because he could.

The exclusivity clause in BJ's contract had expired. He did not sign a new one before the bout with Hughes. Afterwards he was free to do wtf he wanted, so he went somewhere else. Either because he would get paid more, or because if he was going to get paid less, he did not want the UFC to benefit.
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Dana could have paid him. He chose not to. Therefore, he let his champion leave.
 
Tonycpa said:
Dana could have paid him. He chose not to. Therefore, he let his champion leave.
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That is not what happened. BJ won his title. He then signed a lucrative non exclusive agreement with K-1 because he could. UFC no longer had exclusivity rights over him. Naturally that chafed Dana's vag. It was only upon the announcement that he would be fighting in K-1 Romanex that the butt-hurt UFC stripped him. And upon that, the just as easily rustled BJ got all chafed and ended up trying to get a legal injunction prohibiting the UFC from having a WW title fight without him. They eventually settled.

The UFC contracts and system you see now are a directl result of what happened with BJ.
 
If the UFC wanted to let you go yeah fine. But if you are under contract and they want to keep you. that's it. Look no further than what happened to Randy and what is happening now to GSP. If they don't want you on a rival show and you are under contract, you are not going anywhere.
 
JoshR86 said:
UFC would take him to court and block and future card to put Aldo on it, contracts dont only apply within the country signed.
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No Japanese org is cancelling an event on Dana or the US government's say so. Not to mention he could fight in Russia
 
he knows the only option is to go to 155 and he is not willing to do that. This guy wants his cake and eat it too.
 
I hacked Aldo's email and got the Lawyers video call response.
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UFC lawyers > Aldos lawyers. fighters always lose trying this stunt
 
cooks1 said:
That is not what happened. BJ won his title. He then signed a lucrative non exclusive agreement with K-1 because he could. UFC no longer had exclusivity rights over him. Naturally that chafed Dana's vag. It was only upon the announcement that he would be fighting in K-1 Romanex that the butt-hurt UFC stripped him. And upon that, the just as easily rustled BJ got all chafed and ended up trying to get a legal injunction prohibiting the UFC from having a WW title fight without him. They eventually settled.

The UFC contracts and system you see now are a directl result of what happened with BJ.
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Baby Jay gave Dana the opportunity to increase his pay multiple times before he signed with K1. It's well documented.

He didn't even require the UFC to match his offer. He just wanted more than what he was making.
 
So he's bringing in lawyers because he won't be named undisputed champion until after 205? I'm sorry is this baby even scheduled for a fight in between then? Ya.. he can gtfo.
 
Natesblackshirt said:
So he's bringing in lawyers because he won't be named undisputed champion until after 205? I'm sorry is this baby even scheduled for a fight in between then? Ya.. he can gtfo.
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He says he was offered a fight at 205, in which case he could have had PPv points probably and made a lot of money.
 
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