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Yesterday, Karyn Bryant and MMA H.E.A.T. caught up with Jose Aldo in the L.A. area for a revealing interview. The UFC Featherweight champion…

Heading into his Featherweight title bout with Jose Aldo at UFC 156, former Lightweight champion Frankie Edgar expects a full-on war with the famed Brazilian striker. However, that’s not going to change his mindset or gameplan in any way, because wars are what he’s become quite accustomed to over the last few years. Edgar knows he will have to take the fight to Aldo, and he addressed this belief in an interview recent interview with MMAFightcorner:“It’s tough to really put any chinks in any of these

The UFC featherweight champion will face the former lightweight champion at UFC 156 in Las Vegas.

The UFC welterweight champion says that the best MMA fighter in the world happens to be a guy who currently doesn’t hold a title.

Hot on the heels of the great pay-per-view success of UFC 153 in Rio, news comes that the UFC will be making a return to Brazil sooner than later. Brazilian favorite Jose Aldo is reported to make his return to the Octagon against Frankie Edgar for the Featherweight title, tentatively set for January 19th.
Already once scheduled to fight Edgar for the 145 lb. strap as the headliner of UFC 153, those plans were nixed when the champion suffered a foot injury in a motorcycle accident.
According to Brazilian

Clay Guida recently announced that he’ll drop down to the featherweight division and has his sights set on Frankie Edgar for his debut.

Hot on the heels of the diappointing announcement that Jose Aldo will indeed miss the UFC 153 headlining bout with Frankie Edgar, it appears that two new potential opponents have arisen from the fray. Team Alpha Male Leader Urijah Faber has spoken out on Twitter, calling for either he or his teammate Chad Mendes to be the man to replace Featherweight champ Aldo:

Weighed 158 yest“@thesensation82: @danawhite edgar v @urijahfaber for Interim belt? I’m sure the Cali kid wouldn’t mind stepping up

Featherweight champion Jose Aldo (21-1) suffered a foot injury and pulled out of his UFC 153 main event bout against Frankie Edgar.UFC President Dana White tweeted the news earlier:

Now Aldo is out with foot injury. Main and co main in the same day!! Another amazing day at the UFC. We have some work to do
— Dana White (@danawhite) September 11, 2012

Aldo suffered a swollen foot and several scratches on September 1 after a car hit the motorcycle he was riding in the Copacabana section of Rio de

This week’s edition of “UFC Tonight” has confirmed something that has speculated upon for quite some time. Former UFC Lightweight champion Frankie Edgar will indeed make the drop to fight in the 145 lb. division. After spending almost two-and-a-half years fully entrenched in the 155 lb. title scene due to six fights with three rematches, Edgar will now cut weight to make Featherweight.
Recent weeks have shown a ton of controversy surrounding Edgar, as many thought that he had won his

(Frankie Edgar vs. Dominick Cruz for the UFC bantamweight title, with special guest referee Michael Vick. Dare we…