Rising Superstar Jose Aldo Ready for Fight in Urijah Faber’s Backyard

By MMAEdition on Dec 31, 1969 with Comments 0

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Like other Brazilian sports stars, Jose Aldo deserves to go by one name. His talents are singular; his name should be, too.

Instead, it is his WEC 48 opponent that is so easily recognizable. In the world of MMA, there is only one Urijah. Yet while Aldo is the champion, it is Urijah Faber that will have the hometown crowd in his favor when the two do battle in the WEC’s first-ever pay-per-view, which airs this Saturday from Sacramento’s Arco Arena.

If you’ve never seen Aldo fight before, it might be against your better judgment to spend $45 to do so for the first time. That is what the WEC is asking you to do, and in today’s economy, that’s real money that can probably be put to more practical use. No one knows that like Aldo, who grew up poor enough that he didn’t always know when he’d eat his next meal, and that his simple dream for the future was to own a condo. Neither of those is an issue anymore for the WEC featherweight champion, but he still understands the value of money, and promises to deliver a performance to match the event’s price tag.