Jose Aldo Demands Contract Release: I Can’t Trust Dana White

Upset at White and at the UFC in general, Aldo says he no longer believes in White and is demanding his release from the promotion.

“Conor himself said before that he wouldn’t give his belt away by any chance and nobody would take it away from him,” Aldo said. “After all this, I see I can’t trust any word from president Dana White, and who’s in charge of the promotion now is Conor McGregor.

“Since I’m not here to be an employee of McGregor, today I ask to cancel my contract with the UFC. When they offered me a fight with Frankie Edgar, Dana said that the winner would challenge McGregor or win the linear title, that he would lose his belt if he didn’t return to the featherweight division after his rematch with Nate Diaz.

“After being fooled so many times, I don’t feel motivated to fight in the UFC anymore.”

White mentioned that McGregor would have to vacate one of the belts if he were to do the impossible and beat Alvarez at 205, yet Aldo doesn’t believe it one bit.

“I don’t believe in Dana saying that Conor would have to vacate one of the belts after UFC 205 because, based on what we’re seeing, this type of decision is not in his hands anymore, Conor makes the calls now,” Aldo said. “And the biggest proof that who’s in charge in the UFC now is Conor is that when I wanted to move up to fight Pettis, they said I’d have to vacate my belt and try this fight with no title whatsoever.

“But with him, they let him move up to the division above without losing his belt, and also let him do any fight he wants. I understand that he sells a lot, but it gets to a limit when it’s no longer a sport, it becomes a circus.

“I don’t want any type of fight with the UFC. The only thing I want is to go on with my life, and they will go on with theirs.”

And it’s not as if Aldo wants to just leave the UFC for another promotion, he wants to leave the sport entirely and just fizzle away into retirement. Looks like Aldo has had enough of fighting.

“Not even fight MMA, too. It has reached a limit now,” Aldo siad. “I talked to ‘Dede’ a long time ago and he convinced me to continue. I went to the Frankie Edgar fight and won. I fought to win for ‘Dede’. I’m not angry or upset now, nothing. I never fought for money, I had a good career and legacy as featherweight champion.”

“If [White] likes me and my family, I just hope he released me. I don’t want a fight. I want to leave as I came in. The UFC and WEC didn’t give me anything. Everything I conquered was my merit and from my team. Nobody gave me anything. I conquered everything.

“And I gave them a lot more than they gave me back. I just want them to release me from my contract. I’m not a whore to sell myself [for money].

“I don’t even want to fight MMA. I want to follow a career in another sport. That’s what I want.”

Pretty gnarly if you ask me. Here’s hoping Aldo gets his head on right and just waits this out for his chance. I don’t see McGregor letting go of the featherweight belt, win or lose against Alvarez.

Aldo will have his chance soon, if he can wait long enough.