Former UFC featherweight champ and current bantamweight contender Jose Aldo did not hold back when he came for middleweight Paulo Costa. Aldo told the Trocação Franca podcast that Costa needs to actually honor his fight agreements before asking for a pay raise.
““If I were the promoter, I’d be very pissed. There’s no way you come talk to me tomorrow and ask for a pay raise if you can’t even fulfill your contract, right? I see that a lot these days. I see young fighters in the UFC that sometimes don’t fulfill what’s in their deals.
Jose Aldo Blasts “Disrespectful” Paulo Costa “you can’t even fulfill your contract!”
If you sign an eight-fight contract making X [amount of money], man, you’ll make X during those eight fights, you can’t, after three fights.
Or fight for the belt, get a title shot, and then you can say, ‘I deserve to make more because I’m doing this, this and this,’ and show the numbers.”
Aldo was once the reigning king of the UFC’s featherweight division, boasting the most successful title defenses in UFC featherweight history as well as the most consecutive title defenses in UFC featherweight history. Newer fans may remember Aldo as the man who lost his belt in thirteen seconds to Conor McGregor, which at the time was his first defeat in ten years.
Aldo, a veteran of the sport, has no time for Paulo Costa’s lack of respect.
“But to go there and not even make weight, that’s a lack of respect. If you can’t [make weight], if it’s tough, move up a division. I say for myself. How many times I got real bad, Dede thinking about calling the doctor to [cancel] the fight and I said no, I always had to make weight and honor what I said.
I would make weight no matter how. I got there dragged or carried, it doesn’t matter, but I made weight. I never left the UFC wondering whether or not I would make weight. With all the work, the exhaustion I had to make featherweight, I always went there and did it. I never lacked respect to my opponent, to fans or anyone else.”
Aldo specified where Paulo Costa went wrong. “First, work, understand where he is, to know what he wants in the future.
That fight, if he had beat Adesanya, then he could have gotten to the UFC and said, ‘I want a contract, a champion’s contract,’ and put the number on the table. But the moment you only do a few fights, even if you’re winning and knocking [people] out, that doesn’t explain anything.
You have to go there, put on good fights and get to the title shot and then, winning [the belt], you sit down with the UFC and say, ‘Dana, I deserve the contract, I deserves this number, because I’ve showed you.’ You’re giving something back to the company.”
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