Frustrated Jose Aldo Requests Termination of UFC Contract

The hold at the top of the UFC’s featherweight division has Jose Aldo looking at drastic measures regarding his career.Speaking with Combate on Tuesday, the interim 145-pound king confirmed that he has requested his release from the Las Vegas-based promotion. Aldo’s demand coincides with the news that Conor McGregor, the undisputed featherweight king, will face Eddie Alvarez for the lightweight championship in the UFC 205 main event. McGregor has not defended the belt since defeated Aldo via 13-second knockout at UFC 194 last December. “I heard about everything that happened from my coach. He’d talked to [matchmaker] Sean Shelby on Saturday, and Sean didn’t have an answer for anything and asked if I could fight on Nov. 12. My coach answered that if it were against Conor, yes, and then Sean asked him if I’d fight Max Holloway or Anthony Pettis. Then [Andre Pederneiras] said that, for these two, he’d rather do a full camp and that it could happen on Dec. 10,” Aldo told Combate. “So we waited until Dana said publicly that he wanted this fight with McGregor to happen. Then we were expecting it to happen: either I’d have my rematch to unify the featherweight belt or I’d get my belt back fighting Holloway or Pettis, considering that, according to what Dana himself had been saying all along, Conor couldn’t keep both belts. But, to my …

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