Coach: We won’t know until next week if Aldo is fighting
Andre Pederneiras: “I know he’s injured and this rib injury is painful. He’s using anti-inflammatory and we will wait to see if he gets better.”
When the original report surfaced that Jose Aldo was injured it was that he fractured a rib. A follow up visit to a doctor in the United States came back that the rib was not fractured, just bruised and there was likely cartilage damage. Aldo’s coach Andre Pederneiras spoke to MMAFighting about the situation and where that leaves Aldo:
“There’s medical report here and an evaluation there. I’m not a doctor to say which one is correct,” Pederneiras told the media after Shooto Brazil 55 in Rio de Janeiro. “I know he’s injured and this rib injury is painful. He’s using anti-inflammatory and we will wait to see if he gets better. The fight is on, and we’ll check him again next week.”
“We will only have this answer next week,” he continued. “He’s under treatment. He did an injection and is under a PRP (platelet-rich plasma) treatment, and is waiting to get better. They take his blood, use only the good plasma, and inject it on the injury. The fight is 15 days away. Doctors say he will get better day after day. We can’t say how he will feel 15 days from now.”
Pederneiras says the UFC didn’t pressure them to take the fight despite the injury, but will decide to take Aldo off UFC 189 if he’s able to cut weight properly.
“If he can’t do any exercise to cut weight, he won’t fight at all,” he said. “That doesn’t concern me at all.