Aldo a year or two away from moving on
Alexandre Pequeno Nogueira’s patented 10-finger guillotine? It’s no good when Aldo is laying elbows into your skull. Cub Swanson’s run…
Alexandre Pequeno Nogueira’s patented 10-finger guillotine? It’s no good when Aldo is laying elbows into your skull.
Cub Swanson’s run to a WEC title shot? Stopped in his tracks with a double flying knee knockout courtesy of the Brazilian.
Mike Brown’s title reign? Cut short by Aldo’s second-round TKO stoppage.
The only man that has managed to go the duration with Aldo is former featherweight champion Urijah Faber. But even he limped away with a battered leg that turned all the various shades of black, blue, and purple.
Does that mean that, should he get past Manny Gamburyan at WEC 51 in Broomfield, Colo., next week, Aldo is ready to step out of his division and start taking all comers? Not necessarily. In fact, his boss believes that day is still quite a ways off.
I don’t think he’s close at all (to clearing out his division), said WEC general manager Reed Harris on Monday. I’ve got a bunch of guys on deck.
Josh Grispi was just telling me a couple of weeks ago that he’d love the opportunity to get in front of Aldo. So I’ve got a lot of guys in that division that want to fight Jose Aldo.
Clearing out a division these days is actually a difficult proposition. Even when a fighter gets close to defeating all the guys that are on today’s list new contenders come to the fore, which will likely happen in the time frame that Harris laid out for Aldo.
I think he’s probably got another year or two in front of him before he starts looking to go into another division, he said.
