José Aldo da Silva Oliveira Jnior was born on September 9, 1986. He is a former professional mixed martial artist from Brazil who is often anglicized as Jose Aldo. He was the fourth and last WEC Featherweight Champion, and he most recently participated in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in the Bantamweight class.
Following the merging of the UFC and WEC, he was named the inaugural UFC Featherweight Champion. After successfully defending his UFC and WEC titles seven times each, Aldo is regarded as one of the greatest mixed martial artists of all time and as the finest featherweight ever.
| Name | José Aldo da Silva Oliveira Jnior |
| D.O.B | September 9, 1986 |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) |
| Weight | 61 kg |
| Occupation | Mixed Martial Artist |
| Professional Debut | August 10, 2004 |
| Wife | Vivianne Perreira |
| Nicknames | Junior |
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José Aldo was born in Brazil’s Manaus city. Aldo had a lifelong scar on the left side of his face when he was a baby after being dropped into a grill. He was passionate about football his entire adolescence and aspired to play professionally. His father encouraged him to pursue his goals.
Aldo, however, became weary of being beaten up in street fights and began training capoeira to learn how to better defend himself in altercations. After courses, Aldo used to practice capoeira on the streets, where he once caught the eye of a Brazilian jiu-jitsu instructor. Aldo accepted his invitation to try one jiu-jitsu class, and after that class, he chose to start training in jiu-jitsu instead of capoeira.
Aldo relocated from Manaus to Rio de Janeiro at the age of 17, taking just his clothing with him and vowing to practise mixed martial arts there until he made it big in the sport.
He moved to Rio de Janeiro at the age of 17 to pursue MMA training. He became a professional that same year, faced Mario Bigola, a rookie, and won by TKO in under 16 seconds. His early years were spent switching organizations. He went to England and participated in FX3: Battle of Britain. Jose Aldo won the first match by beating Mickey Young but was defeated by Luciano Azavedo via rear-naked choke submission.
In his World Extreme Cagefighting debut, Jose Aldo defeated Arco Arena and Cub Swanson. He later faced Mike Brown to win the WEC Featherweight Championship in 2009. At WEC 51 in 2010, he then successfully defended his championship against Manvel Gamburyan.
He was the inaugural UFC Featherweight Champion when the WEC and UFC amalgamated, and he successfully defended his championship against Mark Hominick at UFC 129 in 2011 and Kenny Florian at UFC 136. After making a few more strong defences and suffering a rib injury, he was eventually defeated by Conor McGregor in 2015 by way of knockout. This was his first loss at featherweight, where he had a 25-match winning run prior to this, and his first loss in more than ten years. Aldo announced his retirement from mixed martial arts on September 18, 2022, the same day his son was born. He still had one bout left on his UFC contract. Aldo was given liberty to seek chances in other sports despite the original claims that he was no longer under contract with the UFC.
Grappling credentials
| 39 matches | 31 wins | 8 losses |
| By knockout | 17 | 4 |
| By submission | 1 | 1 |
| By decision | 13 | 3 |
