Rivals Jose Aldo and Conor McGregor. Photo via Instagram (@josealdojunioroficial) and (@thenotoriousmma)
Former UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo boxed Jeremy Stephens at Saturday night’s Gamebred Boxing 4 in Milwaukee.
After six tough rounds, the scorecards showed one judge giving the fight 58-56 to Aldo, while the other two judges scored the fight 57-57, resulting in a majority draw.
A decision the Brazilian was far from happy with.
“Jeremy is a very tough guy, I knew it would be like that,” Aldo said after the fight. “I think I won easily. Hit him a lot, didn’t get hit at all, so I don’t know.”
Jose Aldo, who lost his UFC featherweight strap to McGregor back in 2015, did not hold back when he replied to the Irishman’s tweet at the Gamebred Boxing 4 post-fight press conference.
“Conor is an asshole,” Aldo said in Portuguese. “He only talks now because he has a fight booked, and does so to sell anything, not to actually fight. He’s a son of a bitch.”
“And tell Conor fuck yourself again. We should have fought in the UFC and he never wanted, and now he’s talking shit nonstop.”
At the post-fight press conference, Aldo also claimed that he intends to talk to his manager Ali Abdelaziz about a boxing exhibition match in Saudi Arabia against Floyd Mayweather Jr.