José Aldo slams Conor McGregor's title tilt:

Newly promoted UFC Featherweight champion José Aldo, has slammed Conor McGregor's Featherweight title reign, claiming the Irish fighter "was never the champion". McGregor only last December at UFC 194, stopped Aldo in a record setting 13 seconds to unify the Featherweight championship, and after his Lightweight title exploits at UFC 205 in New York in November, McGregor became the organisations first ever multiple champion held simultaneously. Now just weeks later, the UFC hierarchy has chosen to strip McGregor of his Featherweight title, after the superstar was inactive in the division for almost a year, thus promoting José Aldo to the undisputed champion, and setting up a mediocre UFC Interim Featherweight title bout to headline UFC 206 between Max 'Blessed' Holloway and former UFC Lightweight champion Anthony 'Showtime' Pettis, after the original main event between Daniel Cormier and Anthony Johnson fell out, with Light Heavyweight title holder Cormier, suffering a groin injury, forcing him off the card. Aldo's promotion to the title marks the second time he has been promoted to champion, after he moved from World Extreme Cagefighting after his win over Manvel Gamburyan, thus becoming the first UFC Featherweight champ. Aldo told how his UFC 194 KO loss was a "mistake" and how he would beat McGregor in a "rematch" calling the Crumlin man a "coward" in the process. It has to be noted that Aldo refused a rematch with McGregor at UFC 196, after then Lightweight champion Rafael Dos Anjos pulled from the card after suffering a metatarsal injury. Nate Diaz eventually replaced RDA, inflicting McGregor's first UFC defeat, before the Lightweight champ avenged his first loss at UFC 202.

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