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28th Jan 2016

Jose Aldo says he wants rematch with Conor McGregor “anytime, anywhere”

Conor Heneghan

Does that mean you’d come to Croke Park Jose?

Jose Aldo has been keeping fairly quiet since his rather humbling defeat to Conor McGregor in Las Vegas before Christmas, or at least he had been until last night.

The Brazilian came out fighting with an ultimatum of sorts to the UFC in a Facebook post last night, stating that he wants his return to the Octagon to be either a title shot or a rematch with the man who took his featherweight title.

It’s the latter option – a McGregor rematch – that Aldo appears most keen on, telling the Notorious that he would whoop his ass “anytime, anywhere” in a rematch and explicitly calling out UFC head honchos Dana White and Lorenzo Fertitta to make it happen.

Hi everyone, I was quiet for a while, because I was waiting for my rematch. In fact, I was already training for it,…

Posted by Jose Aldo Junior on Wednesday, 27 January 2016

McGregor is somewhat busy focussing on his upcoming bout with Aldo’s compatriot Rafael dos Anjos at the moment, but after fighting talk like that from Aldo, maybe a rematch will be on the cards somewhere down the line.

Who knows, maybe he’ll last even longer than 13 seconds this time.