MCGREGOR: I don't think Jose Aldo will ever come back

Less than 24 hours after the UFC announced jose Aldo's withdrawal from UFC 189 due to a rib injury, Conor McGregor, the original challenger, could not wait to announce to the world that he had long expected Jose Aldo to eventually retire for some reason.

Connor called Aldo's retirement an escape

'I started thinking about what reasons he would retire long before he got injured. Conor McGregor said on a conference call Wednesday. "A long time ago, almost when this game was announced, I was thinking about it. As I said before, the eyes never lie, and when I stared into the eyes of this guy, all I saw was fear, so I was sure he would never dare to fight, so when he finally got his ribs injured, he immediately escaped on this grounds, exactly as I thought. But I don't blame him, because if he came out and played against me, I would tear him down like a butcher, and his end would be miserable. ”

Jose Aldo's performance after being identified as having a rib injury last week has led to the belief that he will still play on July 11, as tests at the time said he had no rib injuries and UFC President Dana White cited many examples in Thursday's press conference where players with the same rib injury could still play. But in the end, everything went in a disappointing direction, and the headline main game of UFC 189 was replaced by Conor McGregor vs Chad Mendes' featherweight provisional championship match.

"If a guy withdraws from a game, then he habitually withdraws from the game again and again. I mean, the medical report has confirmed that he is in a good condition to play, so there should be no reason not to play here. You can play, but you choose to quit, and honestly, your title should be stripped away. ”

"Now UFC 189 has become a performance by myself ,Conor McGregor, and people are here to watch me alone. It doesn't matter to me, whether it's Jose Aldo or Chad Mendes, I accepted the game against this second-rate player and I'm still going to set a new record for AUCC. ”

Unfortunately for Jose Aldo, the withdrawal was not an independent event, he had a long history of postponing the championship due to injury, according to statistics, as many as 5 times, in less than a year, he has withdrawn from the championship double match with Chad Mendes and the match with Conor McGregor, the former of which led to the UFC having to cancel UFC 176 in August last year.

But Conor McGregor is no longer thinking about Jose Aldo. "Now the featherweight is my magnitude, Jose Aldo has packed up and fled, and now I have the final say here. If he wants to come back with his tail between his legs, no problem, he can come back and we can play this game inside Dublin's Substitute Stadium. But I don't know when he came back, like I said, he ran away, and I don't think he'll ever come back. ”