There's no doubt that this is the biggest featherweight match-up ever.
By an amazing turn of events,
Aldo's injured, he has to pull out.
His coach called and said Aldo's rib is too painful and he will not be fighting,
so Chad Mendes now will fight Conor McGregor for the interim belt.
Rogan:
-[crowd roars] -Rogan:
Goldberg:
Conor McGregor is the UFC Interim Featherweight Champion!
Rogan:
the Aldo fight will be beyond imagination.
In my eyes, Jose's gone running.
If he wants to come back, he can come back,
but I swear to God, his day will come.
[speaking Portuguese]
I can't wait for this fight.
Bruce Buffer: The notorious...
As it stands right now, I am the pound-for-pound number one.
Announcer:
The crowds go absolutely wild!
Conor McGregor burst onto the scene boasting that he was gonna
knock people out in the first round,
he was gonna do this, he was gonna do that,
and he's done everything he said he would do.
Goldberg: Conor McGregor, another first round win! Wow!
I demolished every single person they put in front of me.
I will demolish Aldo as well.
The style that Conor has: how hard he hits,
the way he moves forward,
this fight is gonna be a war, a slugfest,
it's gonna bring the absolute best out of Jose Aldo.
- [yelling] - [crowd screaming]
Rogan:
He's in front of Jose Aldo, screaming at him,
and Jose Aldo is smiling.
[speaking Portuguese]
White:
Conor knew that Aldo did not want to be touched.
And all Conor wanted to do was touch him.
[speaking Portuguese]
You're looking at him!
McGregor: Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do?
McGregor:
Just, next I'm gonna' touch him a lot harder and take my belt.
-Rogan: Oh! -Goldberg: Oh, my!
Announcer:
There's never been a featherweight fight, ever,
that has generated this kind of attention.
And make no mistake about it,
that attention is because of Conor McGregor.
I can smell a [bleep] from here.
[speaking Portuguese]
Mike Goldberg:
There has been one UFC Featherweight Champion, ever.
That is Jose Aldo.
And he has beaten every man
they put in front of him for the last decade.
And, without a doubt, will be the very best fighter
that Conor McGregor has ever faced.
Rogan:
He utilizes spectacular leg kicks,
world class Brazilian jiu-jitsu,
ridiculous power and speed.
Goldberg: He rocked him!
Jose Aldo's about as good as it gets, stylistically.
The guy's amazing.
And yet Conor McGregor's the betting favorite coming into this fight.
You've got nothing to say, face to face. Give me that!
[Aldo speaking Portuguese]
Say hello to my little friend.
McGregor is pushing Jose Aldo into a corner.
And when you push a great fighter like Aldo into a corner,
you find out what that great fighter's capable of.
Goldberg:
Rogan:
And we're gonna find out whether or not
Conor McGregor can deal with that Jose Aldo.
'Cause that's the Jose Aldo that he's summoned.
Goldberg:
[yelling]
He will try and get in close, and I will be running
straight forward for him, so he will feel the power early,
and it'll be a formality after that.
-Rogan:
[speaking Portuguese]
Announcer:
[speaking Portuguese]
This is no joke. I'm gonna come sprinting out the gate.
I'm gonna hit him with every shot in the book.
And I'm gonna stiffen him up.
[speaking Portuguese]
You want to do something? You want to do something?
I go into every fight with no [bleep] regrets.
Everyone has their breaking point.
It's just whose threshold is higher.
How hard can you push yourself?
How early do you work? How late do you work?
I'm the first and I'm the last.
[breathing heavy]
I don't leave anything on [bleep] the table.
No one [bleep] works harder.
Chris Weidman, think you're gonna break me?
You gotta be [bleep] joking.
Let's [bleep] go.
All five rounds, I'll keep a pace you've never [bleep] felt.
I think Rockhold's the first guy
that really continuously called me out.
I'm the best around.
I did my part. Weidman, you go do your part.
Why don't we take this across the way?
Weidman:
that's coming out of his mouth, but if he does believe it,
I can't wait to see that look of complete surprise,
I want to see that look of break and of, "I can't believe I was wrong."
Announcer:
He has taken down every opponent.
Rogan:
and big for a middleweight.
The only guys who's as big as him is Luke Rockhold.
Daniel Cormier:
but they can't wait to get their hands on each other
because neither one of them want anyone to be considered their equal.
You can feel that Weidman hates that people believe
that Luke Rockhold's a guy that can compete on his level.
Weidman:
but there seems to be a lot more people right now
that think Luke could beat me,
and should be huge for me once I beat them.
I think it really silences even more doubters
than I already have.
Cormier:
is just head and shoulders above everybody in his division.
Rockhold:
I think he's fought a bunch of old, deflated Brazilians.
There's a new generation, and it's time to bring him up to date.
Announcer:
Oh, that could be it! This could be the finish!
Announcer 2:
-chokes out Michael Bisping!
He has a chance, just like anybody has a chance
when they go into the Octagon.
The chance is so, so, so small.
it's really down to zero percent.
Goldberg:
Rogan:
Goldberg:
It is all over!
The all-American, Chris Weidman,
defeats Vitor Belfort!
Stop doubting me.
You'd better join the team now.
This is my last invitation.
Cormier:
and I think, on December 12th, man, it's gonna be the best
middleweight championship fight that we've seen in a long time.
Announcer:
You know, we're both out there trying to crush each other's dreams
and take what we've worked for our whole lives.
Weidman:
you have the mentality that no one deserves to beat you.
[both yelling] Oh!
Looking to finish it. He has done it!
Weidman's toughness and his wrestling has got him by.
But it can only last you so long, until you run into a guy
that can wrestle with you and can do everything else.
Announcer:
I'm gonna be a smarter guy.
And it doesn't matter how good a wrestler,
how good of jiu-jitsu guy, how good of a striker he is,
if you're being outsmarted, it does not matter.
I see a slow, sloppy, flat-footed individual
that I'm gonna go out there and I'm gonna dance around,
and I'm gonna run away with this fight in the second and third round,
and I don't see him standing after the third.
I want people to remember these words coming out of his mouth.
'Cause when I shove it down his mouth on December 12th,
he's gonna look really stupid. Just keep your mouth shut,
go out there like an athlete, and try to beat me.
Rockhold:
Everything I do is about being the best. It's about being world champion.
I lived up to that once and I'm about to live up to it again.
I cannot imagine me standing there with my head down
and him with his hand raised and...
-I can't live my life like that. -It's warfare now.
Rogan:
Announcer:
[screaming]