José Aldo revealed that he was close to facing Floyd Mayweather in Boxing (Photo: Reproduction)
Without confirming whether the fight at UFC Rio will be his farewell to MMA, the “King of Rio”, it seems, intends to remain active in combat sports. Since his retirement from MMA, José Aldo has held three boxing matches, where he has two wins and one draw. Furthermore, the man from Manaus revealed in an interview with the “Connect Cast” podcast that he was close to facing Floyd Mayweather, one of the biggest names in the history of world boxing, and said that he still doesn’t know why the fight didn’t happen, but revealed that may soon be present at another big event.
“My fight against Floyd was very close to happening. Ali (Abdelaziz, manager) was helping me with that. Both mine and his had already accepted the fight, but it didn’t happen, I don’t know for what reason. Everything was set that was going to happen in Saudi Arabia, but now there will be a big event on Netflix, in the middle of the year, and we’ll see what happens. I’m focused on the next fight and I’m not thinking about anything else at the moment other than UFC Rio”, declared José Aldo. .
The “Netflix event” mentioned by Aldo is the card that will be shown on the streaming platform, which will have the legend Mike Tyson facing Jake Paul in the main fight, in a show that takes place at the AT&T Stadium, in Texas (USA), on the day July 20th. The edition also had the rematch between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano confirmed.
