Conor McGregor And Aldo Get Heated, Rousey Calls Fight Personal, Dana White Criticizes Wanderlei
- UFC held a major press conference in Brazil this weekend to promote both UFC 189 and UFC 190. UFC 189 will take place in Las Vegas and feature Brazilian UFC Featherweight Champion Jose Aldo taking on Conor McGregor, while UFC 190 will take place in Brazil and see Brazilian challenger face UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey.
Things got heated between Aldo and McGregor at the press conference, with Aldo questioning McGregor's credibility. During their face off, McGregor was visibly talking trash, and promised to break Aldo's nose when they fight in July.
- At the same press conference, Ronda Rousey said that she considered her fight with Bethe Correia personal. Correia defeated Rousey's teammates and fellow Four Horsewomen members Shayna Baszler and Jessamyn Duke, and then called out Rousey. The UFC Women's Bantamweight champion opened as a -1500 favorite over the Brazilian challenger. Out of the top 8 ranked women's 135-pounders, Rousey will have fought 7 of them.
- Dana White took exception to banned fighter Wanderlei Silva's post comparing his situation to slavery this weekend, firing back at the former UFC Fighter.
Silva posted the following on his Facebook this weekend:
""You know that I've been chased, discriminated, treated like a slave by (the UFC). They don't want to release me from the contract, so I can't work anymore, which is my right of not wanting to work for them anymore. I come here asking the UFC to release me from this slavery system. You work for them or don't work anywhere else. Some good soul, please translate this and send to Dana. I know I will find the best lawyers to help me with that."
"Wanderlei Silva ran form a drug test. If he's a slave, he's a slave of his own doing," White said at the UFC Fight Night 62 post-fight presser. "He did this to himself. The UFC didn't do anything to Wanderlei Silva. Actually, everything that's happening to Wanderlei Silva, he brings to himself."