Report: Jose Aldo-Conor McGregor fight set for Dec. 12 in Las Vegas
Jose Aldo and Conor McGregor will finally get their long-awaited fight, as it has been scheduled for mid-December in Las Vegas.
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Brandon Wise
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After failing to get it done the first time, Conor McGregor and Jose Aldo appear ready to square off. The two are reportedly scheduled to fight on Dec. 12 in Las Vegas, UFC president Dana White said according to Yahoo.com.
McGregor fought Chad Mendes at UFC 189 instead of Aldo, who backed out after he picked up a training injury just before the fight date. However, White was skeptical of the injury, as he said before the Pay-Per-View:
"So what happened was, when the pictures went out onto the internet, right, and you saw this rib down here, that was an old injury," the UFC president said. "That was an old injury that was calcified white. The real injury was the bruised rib and cartilage. He had a bruised rib and cartilage. And the big problem for Aldo in taking the fight, wasn't the fight. It was making weight."
"He had to cut something like 24 pounds, and if he couldn't physically do it the way that he does it, he was afraid that he couldn't make weight," White continued. "That was really the issue. But he did not have a broken rib. It was a bruise. Every x-ray he sent out was of an old injury. What you saw right there on his body was an old injury, not a new injury."
McGregor was also not fully believing what Aldo said, going as far as to say after defeating Mendes that Aldo was running scared of him. McGregor knocked Mendes out to claim the interim featherweight title. This fight will unify the two belts.
White said MGM Resorts "move Heaven and Earth" to put on the title fight this December.
