The former champion with two UFC division gave his teammate a boost on the day of the weighing
Aiemann Zahabi details the return to Jose Aldo after the change of weight
The UFC 315 winner, Aiemann Zahabi, spoke with MMA Junkie and journalists after the fight after his unanimous victory over Jose Aldo in Montreal.
Montreal – Now that it’s over, Aiemann Zahabi would undoubtedly say that it is water under the bridge.
But at the time, to tell the truth, the rooster weight could not have been delighted that it entered less than a book of the limit of rooster weights, to tell him that his opponent, the former featherweight champion Jose Aldo, was not even close.
In fact, it was not even a question of abandoning a percentage of your handbag for weight offense. In Quebec, where the UFC 315 fell to the Bell Center in Montreal, more than one difference of five books would have closed the fight.
Zahabi, who lives and trains in Montreal, was painted in the proverbial corner: no fight at all, or fighting an ex -prosecutor a division – and after he had nowhere the same level of energy during his weight cut.
Zahabi (13-2 MMA, 7-2 UFC) reduced a new agreement to fight Aldo (32-10 MMA, 14-9 UFC) in Featherweight, then put an absolute baner of a fight and won a decision in an upheaval.
The teammate and former average weight of the UFC and long-standing champion of Welters Georges St-Pierre was in the corner of Zahabi, with his brother and chief coach, Firas. St-Pierre knows one thing or two about the realization of memorable moments in sport.
“When he missed the weight of eight pounds, the first thing Georges told me was:” It will be so good for the story: not only do you fight a legend in sport, but you fight it to 8 pounds – you had to increase the weight for him (because he could not gain weight). “And then being shaken is only adding to adversity – and I overcome everything,” said Zahabi after his victory.
Zahabi won for the fifth consecutive time. The first four were the rooster weight because his victory over Aldo was initially contracted. Instead, Zahabi gave the former champion who was equivalent to a very bad retirement gift: Aldo announced his retirement MMA (for the second time) after the defeat.
And Zahabi also joined an elite company as the only fighters to beat Aldo at 145 pounds: Conor McGregor, Max Holloway, Alexander Volkanovski and now Zahabi.
But taking the fight was obvious.
“I was in a terrible place. I was between a rock and a hard place,” he told MMA Junkie. “The last time (the UFC) came to Montreal, it was 10 years ago. I don’t know if they come back. My wife didn’t see me fighting live for five years because I was on a hot sequence and I had the mental coach and I feel at the top of my game. I got my first row tickets.
“I have to fight, or don’t I fight? If I wanted to become a legend, I should face adversity. I should win when the chances were against me. I felt like I was doing this today.”
