Conor
McGregor was impressed by Jose Aldo’s
performance in his retirement fight. 

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Aldo faced Aiemann
Zahabi at UFC 315 on Saturday at the Bell Centre in Montreal,
Quebec, Canada. The former featherweight champ put on a spectacular
performance, hurting Zahabi with his signature leg kicks and even
dropping him. However, Zahabi went on to earn a controversial
unanimous decision win in front of his home crowd. Aldo
subsequently hung up his gloves inside the Octagon, marking the end
of a legendary career. 

Former foe Conor
McGregor took to Instagram to react to Aldo’s retirement.
McGregor re-shared a post hailing “Junior” as the greatest
featherweight of all time. The Irishman wrote with a “wide eyed”
emoji: “Jose Aldo last
night”


McGregor’s iconic rivalry with Aldo played a major role in shooting
him to stardom overnight. Then interim champ McGregor faced the
reigning champ Aldo in a featherweight title unifier at UFC 194 in
2015. McGregor delivered some of the greatest trash talk in the
history of the sport in the lead-up to the bout, visibly affecting
Aldo mentally. McGregor even said that he could feel Aldo’s right
hand twitching to hit him and that he wouldn’t be there when the
Brazilian came at him. And word for word, McGregor dodged a lunging
right from Aldo and sent him to sleep with a left hook within 13
seconds. 

McGregor and Aldo’s careers have gone on completely different
trajectories since. While McGregor shot to fame overnight and went
on to become the lightweight champ, Aldo went back and forth before
dropping to bantamweight in 2019. Aldo only fought top tier
competition at 135 pounds, going 4-4 — Saturday’s bout was at
featherweight — before calling it a career. 

Aldo and McGregor have settled their differences over time and
often expressed goodwill for each other in recent years. 

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