Aldo: I will have to move to Lightweight in time
There will be a time when the UFC featherweight champ’s kidneys say, “No way, Jose” as seen in a recent video…
There will be a time when the UFC featherweight champ’s kidneys say, “No way, Jose” as seen in a recent video documenting Aldo’s weight-cut for UFC 129.
Aldo recently pointed to a weight regimen designed to pack on quality muscle mass as the cause for the battle with the scale. But he admitted a time is coming when his frame outgrows featherweigh.
“Since I started training martial arts, back from my jiu-jitsu days, I’ve always been cutting a lot of weight,” Aldo told MMAjunkie.com. “I feel comfortable doing it, and definitely being young, 25 years old, helps it a lot.
“I do feel like there might come a point when all that weight-cutting takes a toll on the body, and I hope that when I reach that point I’m mature enough to be able to figure out what I have to do. I’m going to have to move up in weight.”
Aldo hasn’t hit his athletic prime, which many believe is in the late 20s and early 30s. Fighting Mark Hominick at UFC 129, he visibly tired in later rounds and was far from the explosive terror he’d been in earlier fights.