Cub Swanson and Chad Mendes are both on five-fight winning streaks right now, and they’re impressive win streaks, over tough guys. On paper, they make total sense as the next challengers to Jose Aldo’s featherweight title other than the fact that Jose has viciously ended them both in the past. Remember the double flying knee that tore open the skull of Swanson? Or how about the knee that ended Mendes’ night back in January of 2012? It’s time for Jose to fight Pettis, but that isn’t happening with Pettis fighting Gil…
So here we are, and Jose is looking at Mendes and or Swanson before a Pettis fight comes to fruition, but the champ isn’t worried about that, he told Combate’ that he’ll face them all and get to Pettis eventually.
I think my next opponent can be any of them. They have been winning lately. Swanson not so much but Mendes won his last five fights so he is deserving. If I will have to fight with Swanson, I think he deserves too. Right now we are waiting the UFC define this. I think I will fight again in August or September.
Put the two of them to fight against me and the problem is solved. Let’s do this and drop them out of the line. Bring the two of them so we can end this and call a third one.
I think not just me but everyone wants this fight, including him. It would sell a lot. I think both of we want to do this fight. He had a knee surgery and now he will be a TUF coach, my change of division was suspended. But I think he wants. Based in what he talks, he wants, but in the backstage not so much. I don’t know what happens. I hope he wants this, it would be good for me, for him, for everybody. If he doesn’t want, we will catch him somehow.
Catch him? Is that phrase lost in translation or is Jose saying that Pettis is running?
