Sonnen: If I’m in charge, Aldo would be stripped
Chael Sonnen: “I couldn’t imagine pulling out of a fight, ever, for any reason, let alone a title fight, and [Jose Aldo]’s done it five times.”
Chael Sonnen recently appeared on MMA Junkie radio and spoke in-depth about the Jose Aldo situation and said that if he were the man in charge, there would be no interim title:
Sonnen agrees with McGregor that the headliner’s new prize, an interim UFC featherweight belt, should be switched to the undisputed title.
I couldn’t imagine pulling out of a fight, ever, for any reason, let alone a title fight, and he’s done it five times, Sonnen said. You can call it an interim championship – I guess that’s what you have to do. If I’m in charge, we strip him.
The whole thing is weird. Jose Aldo’s sitting around talking about moving up to 155 (pounds), his coach (Andre Pederneiras) is talking about no longer coaching him, or anyone else for that matter, and his training partner, who hurts him, is doing a media tour the very next day and tells the story of how he hurt him, and how he threw this kick and the champ was rolling around on the floor, crying – almost trying to put himself over. It was just really weird.