Interpreter: I didn’t translate everything Conor said

Saul Almeida was training Carlos Neto BJJ in Boston for a fight this Friday night at WSoF 20 vs. Chris Foster. when the UFC 189 World Tour rolled into town. His friend UFC featherweight asked if he would interpret for him during the hours in Beantown. He did well apparently – suddenly Almeida, 25, was off to New York, Toronto, London, and Dublin too.

“It was crazy,” said Almeida to Chuck Mindenhall for MMAFighting.com. “It was awesome. We got to travel. We forgot about time and where we were. We just lived in the moment every day. Every step of the way it was crazy. The fans were crazy. You just had to deal with it, but it was definitely fun. Aldo enjoyed it too.”

“I wanted to go and slap Conor myself. Maybe one day. When he snatched his belt I should have been quicker. When he went for it, I should have grabbed it and kept it.”

“Some things I didn’t translate to him, I didn’t pass it down. I told him the important stuff. When somebody is yelling, ‘Hey Aldo, I got something for you…you’re a b—-, you’re a p—y,’ I’m not going to turn to him and tell him that. That’s the greatest featherweight of all time. You can’t be disrespectful like that. He doesn’t know what they’re saying, so I just don’t pass it down. He would tell me what he wanted to get across, what he wanted to say and I would. That’s it.”

Almeida also became acquainted with UFC president Dana White on the trip, and he hopes his fight Saturday night impresses the boss of MMA.

“It’s cool to get this fight with WSOF,” said Almeida. “But at the end of the day I took it because it’ll be at Foxwoods, which is an hour away. I’m fighting a guy that I wanted to fight locally anyway, so it worked out. It’s a one-fight deal. So I’ll go in there, and I’ll do what I got to do, finish this, and then give Uncle Dana a call. I’ll be calling him personally after the fight.”

Saul Almeida fights Chris Foster Friday, April 10, 2015 at Foxwoods Resort Casino, in Connecticut.