The most hardest and brutal Pill to swallow when it comes to Aldo

[Koro_11]

ALDO aint even top 3 FW.
1. VOLKANOVSKI
2. Max Holloway
3 Conor mcgregor
4. Aldo

Lets compare wins...
Volk beaten : Max x3, Aldo, Yair, Ortega (honorable mentions Mendes, zombie)

Max : Aldo x2, Ortega, Pettis, Yair and Ortega (honorable mention Allen, Gaethje, swanson)

Conor : Max, dustin, Aldo, mendes, Alvarez.( honorable mention Diaz)

Aldo: Frankie, mendez, zombie, Swanson. (honorable mention Faber)

You dont get to be the GOAT of the division just because you defend your belt more times against taxi drivers, Aldo literally brought his belt from another organization and started defending it in the UFC.. if Conor, max and Alex were given the same opportunity they'd have 10+ defences. What matters is who has the better wins.

Also he lost to all three of those guys in his prime. Just because you lose to better fighters dont mean you're out of your prime all of a sudden. he was in his late 20s and early 30s when he lost to these guys.

in before you say, he had an early prime lol... he is still winning fights so clearly he isn't washed like Ferg or Woodley... he just lost to better fighters in his prime, nothing wrong with that.

The funny thing is even you don’t believe that nonsense.

 

[snaportap21]

I don’t think aldo is the featherweight goat but come on man lol

Aldo isn’t the FW goat? He has twice as many defenses as Volk, and three times as many defenses as Holloway. I can’t think of a greater FW.

 

[snaportap21]

People always go crazy after a recent win for certain fighters, so I get the point of the thread.
I do however hold Aldo over McGregor at FW, despite the loss. 1 Volk 2 Max 3 Aldo. Based on overall accomplishments at that weight.

Shouldn’t Aldo be higher than volk and max, though? Aldo has accomplished basically twice as many defenses as volk, and three times as many defenses as Holloway when you include wec title defenses. Volk has 5 defenses aldo has 9. Volk himself says Aldo is the fw goat because of this reason. His reign still hasn’t even come close to being touched.

 

[Mohawk Banditó]

having a win over Eddie is better than beating Edger who is coming to lower weight class for the first time on a two losing streak... and thats literally Aldo's best win lol.

So we're putting a microscope on Aldo's win over Edgar, but not talking about shit like Conor beating Max as a child, or his wins over Nate and Dustin putting him behind or barely even in those rivalries, considering his losses to them.

You dont get to be the GOAT of the division just because you defend your belt more times against taxi drivers,

No, you get to be the GOAT of your division by leaving it and getting wins in other divisions apparently.

Does your brain work?

 

[fortheo]

Don't feed the troll. There's a handful of them who have been pushing this same exact narrative for years, and they come out from under their beds everytime aldo fights lol.

 

[Siver!]

ALDO aint even top 3 FW.
1. VOLKANOVSKI
2. Max Holloway
3 Conor mcgregor
4. Aldo

Lets compare wins...
Volk beaten : Max x3, Aldo, Yair, Ortega (honorable mentions Mendes, zombie)

Max : Aldo x2, Ortega, Pettis, Yair and Ortega (honorable mention Allen, Gaethje, swanson)

Conor : Max, dustin, Aldo, mendes, Alvarez.( honorable mention Diaz)

Aldo: Frankie, mendez, zombie, Swanson. (honorable mention Faber)

You dont get to be the GOAT of the division just because you defend your belt more times against taxi drivers, Aldo literally brought his belt from another organization and started defending it in the UFC.. if Conor, max and Alex were given the same opportunity they'd have 10+ defences. What matters is who has the better wins.

Also he lost to all three of those guys in his prime. Just because you lose to better fighters dont mean you're out of your prime all of a sudden. he was in his late 20s and early 30s when he lost to these guys.

in before you say, he had an early prime lol... he is still winning fights so clearly he isn't washed like Ferg or Woodley... he just lost to better fighters in his prime, nothing wrong with that.

Imagine putting Faber as an 'honorable mention'

 

[stronghulk]

Shouldn’t Aldo be higher than volk and max, though? Aldo has accomplished basically twice as many defenses as volk, and three times as many defenses as Holloway when you include wec title defenses. Volk has 5 defenses aldo has 9. Volk himself says Aldo is the fw goat because of this reason. His reign still hasn’t even come close to being touched.

One could argue, for sure. But both Volk and Max have amazing FW resumes and beat Aldo (Max twice). I ignore this with Conor because Conor doesn't have the same resume and moved up.
But yeah I wouldn't argue hard that Aldo shouldn't be above Max, at FW. I even to see the case for nr 1, his title defenses where mostly against great fighters aswell,better than Volk.

I actually do like the thought of Aldo has 1 or 2,looking at their records and renembering the days. Things change so fast, Aldo is back, delivering at BW, Max pointed at the mat with 10 sec left and will be one of the biggest draws in the UFC, and Volk is coming of 2 KO losses. What a game this sport is, brutal.

 

[BJJ4Tone]

Ah yes, an intelligent post.
We should give it intelligent responses.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

145 GOAT. 5-7 P4P

 

[filthybliss]

Conor having zero title defenses is not enough to put him in the top 5.

 

[DoubleTrouble]

FW existed way before the UFC had the division and even longer before you started watching MMA.

 

[usernamee]

I do love swallowing but this wasn't it TS.

 

[Mohawk Banditó]

I do love swallowing but this wasn't it TS.

 

[linvillegorge]

How do people get baited into taking obvious troll threads seriously?

 

[Brigfa2]

I think title defenses matters so both Khabib and Conor are overrated
But both fanboys say ''there are more important things than title defenses'' when it works for them

 

[fighters_respect]

Aldo V Holloway (overall): 142 strikes vs 278 strikes
Aldo V Volkanovski: 29 strikes vs 95 strikes
Aldo V Petr Yan: 83 strikes vs 194 strikes & 1 takedown
Aldo V Merab: 38 strikes vs 57 strikes
Aldo V McGregor: 1 strike vs 5 strikes


The sport is evolving dramatically. Aldo landed 3 takedowns while being taken down 5 times between 2014 and 2024.

 

[DatSamboKid]

Jose Aldo kicked off his WEC career in 2008 at age 23, grabbed the WEC belt a year later, and defended it twice. He continued his streak by winning and defending the first-ever UFC belt at UFC 129 in 2011, holding on to the FW belt until 2014. From 2009 to 2017, every fight Aldo took was a title fight, and he’s still beating top 10 contenders in 2024. After 16 years at the highest level in the game, from 2008 to 2024, Aldo's combined UFC and WEC record includes 22 wins, with 16 title fights and 9 title defenses. In my view, Jose Aldo’s legacy still outshines that of Volkanovski and Holloway.

 

[jx820]

if Conor... were given the same opportunity they'd have 10+ defences.

Yes, if only Conor were given the opportunity to defend, he surely wouldn't change divisions or sports.

 

[Spiderbite]

ALDO aint even top 3 FW.
1. VOLKANOVSKI
2. Max Holloway
3 Conor mcgregor
4. Aldo

Lets compare wins...
Volk beaten : Max x3, Aldo, Yair, Ortega (honorable mentions Mendes, zombie)

Max : Aldo x2, Ortega, Pettis, Yair and Ortega (honorable mention Allen, Gaethje, swanson)

Conor : Max, dustin, Aldo, mendes, Alvarez.( honorable mention Diaz)

Aldo: Frankie, mendez, zombie, Swanson. (honorable mention Faber)

You dont get to be the GOAT of the division just because you defend your belt more times against taxi drivers, Aldo literally brought his belt from another organization and started defending it in the UFC.. if Conor, max and Alex were given the same opportunity they'd have 10+ defences. What matters is who has the better wins.

Also he lost to all three of those guys in his prime. Just because you lose to better fighters dont mean you're out of your prime all of a sudden. he was in his late 20s and early 30s when he lost to these guys.

in before you say, he had an early prime lol... he is still winning fights so clearly he isn't washed like Ferg or Woodley... he just lost to better fighters in his prime, nothing wrong with that.

You not thinking Aldo should be in the top 3 isn't a brutal pill. I, personally would put him in the top 3 easily.


Conor most definitely isn't in the FW top 3 though.

He gets the honor of starching Aldo brutally, no question, and he had a great run at FW.
But Conor had 0 defenses, to Aldo's 7 (In the UFC alone).

 

[fighters_respect]

Jose Aldo kicked off his WEC career in 2008 at age 23, grabbed the WEC belt a year later, and defended it twice. He continued his streak by winning and defending the first-ever UFC belt at UFC 129 in 2011, holding on to the FW belt until 2014. From 2009 to 2017, every fight Aldo took was a title fight, and he’s still beating top 10 contenders in 2024. After 16 years at the highest level in the game, from 2008 to 2024, Aldo's combined UFC and WEC record includes 22 wins, with 16 title fights and 9 title defenses. In my view, Jose Aldo’s legacy still outshines that of Volkanovski and Holloway.

Aldo won WEC belt over Mike Brown, who in 5 UFC fights, lost 3, and won 2 decisions, where he threw 38, and then 60 punches.

Then Aldo won fights vs Faber and Gamburyan in WEC.

Mike Brown also beat Faber in WEC. Of 18 UFC fights, Faber lost 7.

Gamburyan, the last person Aldo beat in title fights at WEC. Got 4 wins and 5 losses and 1 overturned decision in the UFC.

Also, Aldo doesn't have a single submission win in UFC or WEC.