Coach Andre Pederneiras Refutes Jose Aldo Retirement Rumors

At UFC
278, former champ Aldo collided with surging contender Merab
Dvalishvili, and he fell brief by resolution. In his victorious
tour round media retailers, Dvalishvili declared on “The MMA Hour”
that Aldo advised him, proper after their struggle, that he would retire.
Aldo himself has but to answer make clear or in any other case talk about
Dvalishvili’s assertion. On Friday, Sherdog spoke to Aldo’s head
coach Andre
Pederneiras, who assured the previous featherweight champion
just isn’t completed but.

“No manner,” Pederneiras exclaimed. “It’s not unusual that high-level
fighters say they’re completed after a loss, as soon as I had many high-level
fighters final 30 years, I can’t inform you what number of instances I´ve heard
that after a loss. The very fact is that, in contrast to many different prime
champions that completed their profession solely shedding, being out of the
rankings, we will see that Aldo continues performing on the highest
stage of the game.”

Pederneiras had extra to say about Aldo’s bout, particularly when it
got here to the officiating. The pinnacle coach didn’t imagine referee
Jason Herzog gave Aldo a good likelihood within the struggle, as he believed
the fighters ought to have been separated for stalling. Dvalishvili
didn’t land a single takedown in your complete struggle, which led to
a number of stalemates towards the fence.

“That defeat, for my part, was just about questionable,” ‘Dede’
said. “I’m not saying I used to be robbed, however a second spherical like that,
the place the referee accepted one fighter staying completely stalling
the opponent within the cage. If all of the refs enable that form of
habits, think about what would occur to our sport? No person needs to
see that s—. I’ve all respect for Jason Herzog, however he had the
similar perspective, each in Aldo and [Ketlen
Vieira]’s struggle.

Herzog was not the lone official who drew the ire of the Nova Uniao
head. Choose Michael Bell scored the bout 30-27 for Dvalishvili, and
Pederneiras vehemently disagreed.

“The sick man who gave the primary spherical to Merab has no concept about
MMA,” an exasperated Pederneiras stated. “He’s most likely a wrestler.
In the event that they imagine that holding a struggle within the cage is a sport, they
ought to cease hiring strikers and simply rent wrestlers.”

The coach did ensure that to notice that regardless that he was not completely happy
with the official dealing with of the match, he had no difficulty with
Dvalishvili or his strategy.

“I’ve nothing unhealthy to say about Merab, he did a technique utilizing the
weapons he had and the principles. The very fact is that the bantamweight
division is among the hardest within the UFC these days. For those who get all
ten top-ranked guys dealing with one another, all people may have losses
and wins relying on the type matchups and the day of the fights.
The very fact is that there are a whole lot of prime guys, and Aldo remains to be
inside that group.”

After the rumor of Aldo’s retirement unfold, many Brazilian followers
began to ask the so-called “Folks’s Champion” to take his
retirement struggle in Rio de Janeiro in January at UFC 283. Followers and
media alike began to posit the names that Aldo may face ought to
he solely have another struggle. Whereas ex-champ T.J.
Dillashaw’s identify got here up, finally the consensus believed
fellow veteran Dominick
Cruz can be the very best opponent within the final struggle of Aldo’s
contract. When requested about the potential of Aldo preventing in Rio,
Pederneiras was not able to take a stand.

“We already requested [about] T.J. [and] Dominick in [the] U.S.A., however
sadly, they weren’t obtainable for [the] UFC’s agenda.
In spite of everything, Aldo has simply returned from his final struggle, which didn’t
go the way in which he deliberate. For now, I can not inform you, for positive, if he
will struggle [at] UFC Rio,” Pederneiras concluded.