Jose Aldo net worth, strange split with Soares, | Boxing News

Jose Aldo is gearing up to face Aiemann Zahabi at UFC 315. Aldo, all the time a thrill to watch, enters the ring with an illustrious MMA profession under his belt, having been topped the UFC’s inaugural featherweight champion after transitioning from the WEC in 2011.

The now 38-year-old efficiently defended his title seven instances before struggling a infamous 13-second knockout defeat to Conor McGregor in 2015 – but that did not signal the tip for the Brazilian fighter. He secured the division’s interim title the next 12 months with a unanimous determination victory over Frankie Edgar, and was later elevated to undisputed champ at 145lbs when McGregor relinquished his own belt. After enduring a third-round TKO at the fingers of Max Holloway in 2017, Aldo has not managed to regain world championship standing since, and as he navigates the twilight years of his profession, he could never get one other alternative to do so.

Nonetheless, that will not deter the 32-9 knockout specialist from bringing the struggle to Zahabi at Montreal’s Bell Centre on Saturday night in his newer bantamweight class. Zahabi, aged 37, enters the fray on a five-fight profitable streak, including victories over Pedro Munhoz and a beforehand unbeaten Javid Basharat, harbouring aspirations of vying for a title of his own in the not too distant future.

With 14 fights under his belt, the Canadian has only suffered two defeats in the UFC and can be wanting to make a assertion against one of the legends of the game. But what do we all know about the ever-resilient Aldo exterior of the Octagon? Here’s a breakdown…

What is Jose Aldo’s net price?

After a profession spanning over 20 years in combined martial arts, it is no shock that Aldo has reportedly earned a small fortune. According to Celebrity Net Worth, ‘Junior’ has amassed an estimated £6.7million over the years.

Reports recommend that £1.7m of this, got here from his 2015 bout with McGregor, thanks to his share of pay-per-view buys. This is believed to be Aldo’s largest payday to date, while different notable purses embody a reported £791,000 for his struggle against Edgar the next 12 months and £323k from his loss to Merab Dvalishvili in 2022.

Who is Jose Aldo’s supervisor?

After defeating Mike Brown to win the WEC’s featherweight title in 2009, Aldo enlisted the help of Ed Soares and Jorge Guimaraes for management. However, their relationship only lasted a few years before the Brazilian parted methods with Soares in a transfer that was described as “strange”.

Speaking to MMAFighting.com, Soares mentioned: “It wasn’t really much of anything, other than his coach, who used to be his manager, felt like he didn’t need our services. It pretty much was one of those things.”

He added: “It was really strange the way it all went down. His coach sent us an e-mail and that was it.” Despite the surprising parting of methods, Soares pressured that there was no animosity concerned at the time.

With a portfolio of esteemed fighters, Soares has been the supervisor for large names such as Lyoto Machida, Anderson Silva, and the Noguiera brothers – Antonio Rodrigo and Antonio Rogerio. Former consumer Aldo is now under the stewardship of his long-standing coach Andre Pederneiras, the very individual who is alleged to have dispatched the e-mail prompting the cut-off from Soares.

What did Conor McGregor say about Jose Aldo?

Despite not going through Aldo since clinching a victory against him ten years in the past, McGregor has proven curiosity in Aldo’s profession progress, notably following Aldo’s slender defeat by Mario Bautista by split-decision in UFC 307. Observing Bautista’s grappling strategy which successfully slowed Aldo without aiming for a submission, McGregor proposed a novel rule for MMA.

Taking to X, he wrote: “As referee, if the fighters go to the same place of [stall] over and over I would be putting the position on a clock. And each time they end back there the clock goes shorter. 30 second clock. 20 second clock, 10 second, 8 second, 6 second etc etc etc. Separate, separate, separate.

“No level prolonging these positions as if they have not taken place precisely the identical manner prior and nothing has taken place but stawling. My opinion.” While referees often encourage fighters to continue to work when they have their opponent pinned to the cage or the canvas, and frequently step in to separate combatants when there is little evidence of action, judges often use grappling and advantageous positioning to score fights when there is little going on in the striking department.

Undeterred by this, however, McGregor added: “Referees need to implement the ‘McGregor Clock’ technique. Check my tweets right here on this. Also it wasn’t failed takedowns, it was direct stawling, he mentioned it post interview.

“People jiggling a little bit is to keep the referee from stepping in. REFEREES NEED TO BE ON POINT HERE. For the fans! #TheMcGregorClock #EndStawlingQuicker. Some refs won’t like I named that clock after myself but whatever, call it what ya’s want. But implement it! Dana [White, UFC president], say it to them.”