News Jose Aldo Returns vs Mario Bautista - UFC 307: SLC - Oct. 5th

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*puts on glasses and looks at the calendar*
It's not April 1st.....
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Should've just stayed retired, glad they are giving him upcoming fighters though. Excited to see him fight, I guess with his burger business failing he needs to continue to fight :(
 
Safton said:
I think Aldo finishes him. Mario is talented, but he has defensive lapses on the feet in several of his fights and I'm not sold on his durability. Sandhagen dropped him and Trevin Jones knocked him out. Bautista relies heavily on his offensive grappling; he's a solid wrestler with a lethal top game -- very good at hunting submissions after he takes dudes down. But Aldo is one of the best defensive wrestlers the UFC has ever seen and hasn't been submitted since 2005. Even Merab had nothing for him in terms of actually taking him down or holding him down.

So if Mario's offensive grappling gets stifled -- which I expect it to -- he is reduced to using his stand-up. Mario is a very solid striker, don't get me wrong. Very fluid, lots of stance switches, lots of volume from the outside, mixes it up at all three levels. But I don't think he has the power to earn Aldo's respect or the dynamism to pick him apart at range for 15 minutes without the King of Rio crashing the pocket and boxing him up at some point. On paper I would argue that Jonathan Martinez is just as dangerous of a pure striker as Mario Bautista if not more so and Aldo made him look like he didn't even belong in the cage with him.
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Yeah. Only thing I don't like for Aldo in this fight is it being at elevation. Not sure why he'd accept another fight in salt lake city.
 
Substance Abuse said:
Nice to see the UFC continue to feed Aldo to guys who have hardly any name value and hope they win, building themselves off of his. Such is life in MMA for the aging veterans.

Aldo has issues with pressure fighters who can push forward and make him reactive; cause damage and make him work. He needs to find a way to negate the pressure and keep Mario off of him. It's more difficult than ever as his reflexes are slower and his ability to see incoming offense is diminished. Skill for skill, Aldo should win, but he'll hit the wall eventually.
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I miss drunk Substance Abuse...(and I agree)
 
Baldo is fighting some nobody on Oct 5th, Cody is fighting some nobody on Oct 12. Come on matchmakers, why do you keep fucking up?
 
ryun253 said:
Hopefully they give Aldo the Andrei Arlovski treatment :D if he falls down a bit more,still looked pretty sharp his last fight though
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I hope so as well. Aldo is 5-1 in his last 6 UFC fights and I think he should be 6-0 because the Merab fight was a joke, there was no "fight", the whole thing was disgusting. Its a shame because Aldo would have probably got another title shot, he has beat all top 10 opponents as well apart from his last fight the guy wasn't in top 10.

Aldo is still lightning fast and has super fast reflexes, he hasn't lost any of it. I still believe he can beat all the top fighters in that division, he is so accurate and skilled. Imagine how beautiful it would be if Aldo was champion again, guy is a legend.
 
fortheo said:
If I was Aldo, I'd never fight in salt lake city again after the last fight he had there.
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There's got to be some financial reason why they keep returning there. Is Salt Lake City full of fight fans or something? Maybe low taxes/friendly commissions and relatively close to Vegas?
Wish the UFC would stop holding events there tbh.
 
Aldo likes to play dead so he can fuck the grave digger in the ass.
 
TheMadHatter said:
I wish they would be giving Aldo bigger names to fight. I would be much more interested seeing him vs Dom Cruz. no matter who Aldo fights I will tune in, but this is the second fight in a row where he is fighting a relative no name fighter.

edit: I was not copying previous posters. I did not even read the comments until after I posted. Glad I am not alone though!
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Dom would definitely be the preferred fight for most of us sir, so you're definitely not alone.
 
Aldo should just get a title eliminator off this fight if he wins.

he's already beaten the last contender and font, who sandhagen and chito have also beaten.


If aldo wins this feed cejudo to him and get him the fight with sean
 
Is SLC Salt Lake City? If it's high altitude, Aldo will have a gas tank for maybe half a round.
 
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