Jose Aldo is still considered the king of the featherweight division.
The former UFC champion Vederweight has not held gold since losing a title Unification Bout to Max Holloway in 2017, but it is impossible to deny what Aldo did more than ten years ago.
Jose Aldo is one of the greatest hunters of all time for his 11 title fight victories in UFC and WEC. The inaugural champion defended the featherweight band seven consecutive times before he suffered his first loss in 10 years from Conor McGregor in 2015.
Of course, Aldo is not only in the conversation 'Greatest Federweight All Time', because the current champion Alexander Volkanovski makes the case with victories over Aldo, Holloway (X3), Chad Mendes, the Korean zombie, Yair Rodriguez, Diego Lopes – the list goes on.
Yet one of the former enemies of Aldo still sees the Brazilian as the 'goat' of the weight class.
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Ricardo Lamas supports Jose Aldo as the largest featherweight of all time for six -year -old title Reign
Ricardo Lamas challenged a Prime Aldo for the featherweight title at UFC 169 in 2014.
Aldo surpassed Lamas about the distance of the championship and hit him four rounds in the jury's scorecards to keep his title for the sixth time.
Lamas greeted Aldo as the featherweight 'goat' for his long and dominant title line, which lasted six years, starting when Aldo became the WEC champion in 2009.
“In my opinion, if you look at how long Aldo was champion, he was champion of the [WEC] Featherweight division before he got into the UFC, “Lamas Bloody Elbow told.
“At that time, the WEC, that is where the best featherweights in the world were. He was champion there for a while. He was such a dominant champion. He made every fight look easy,” Lamas said about Aldo.
“I think if you just talk about the length of the reign of every champion and how dominant they were, it is difficult to say that Aldo is not the goat of the featherweight division.
“Now I don't say that that can't change in a few years,” Lamas was on.
I think Ilia [Topuria] Could have beat a kind of Aldo's line, but now it is to lightweight. So if you are talking about the featherweight division, the length of the reign and how dominant they were, you cannot claim that Jose Aldo is the king of that division. “
Aldo defeated people like Chad Mendes (X2), Frankie Edgar (X2), Lamas, the Korean Zombie, Urijah Faber and much more.
Ricardo Lamas responds to Cub Swanson as the last WEC hunter in UFC
The WEC hunters who crossed the UFC in 2011 are almost all retired.
With Dustin Poirier's retirement on UFC 318 last month, there is now only one active UFC hunter who can say that they have fought in the WEC and that is the former rival Cub Swanson of Lamas.
Swanson is about to withdraw, but he has not yet made the decision after his last TKO victory in December.
“Oh man, it makes me an old feeling,” Lamas said that Swanson was the last hunter of the WEC in the UFC.
“I remember that I started my career for the first time, and then I was considered a Rookie in the sport and a Rookie in the game. Then, as my career progressed to the last part of my career, people began to refer to me as a veteran of the sport.
“It's strange how time, in mind, time is still the same … I am still that guy who has taken his first step in the octagon. I still see myself as a beginner in the sport, but just keeps on time and everything around you changes, good? And you don't notice it when it is, but I know now, and I know it is a battles in the battles in the battles in the battles in the battles like a battles like a battles in the battles Veteran.
“Especially in my year of the UFC there were no lighter weight classes, so I was like a pioneer of the feather weights and bantam weights and flying weights. I was part of the start of it with the UFC when they brought us in from the WEC.
“So it's just strange to hear things like that. But time is ruthless and you just have to go with it.”
Lamas went 4-2 in the WEC and 11-6 in the UFC. 'Bully' retires in 2020 and has victories at former champion Charles Oliveira, Swanson, Diego Sanchez and Dennis Bermudez.